Program for ICPD/15 Forum, Istanbul, 12-13 November 2009
                     
Day 1 Focus: Where Do We Stand With ICPD Agenda?
                   
KEY   SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Track
  POPULATION AND  DEVELOPMENT
 Track
  GENDER
 Track
  YOUTH
 Track
                     
8:30 - 9:15   REGISTRATION (location, room, etc)
                     
9:15 -10:00   OPENING REMARKS: 
  Ms. Purnima Mane,  Deputy Executive Director, UNFPA
  Mr. Cevdet Yılmaz, Minister of State, Republic of Turkey
  Ján KUBIŠ, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
  REMARKS FROM THE PODIUM by co-organizers of the Forum
  Chair of the Event: Ms. Thea Fierens, Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Office, UNFPA
                     
10:00-10:30    FROM CAIRO TO ISTANBUL: REFLECTIONS ON ICPD ACHIEVEMENTS 15 YEARS LATER
  Ms. Purnima Mane, UNFPA 
  Ms. Gunta Lazdane, WHO
  Ms. Elena Poptodorova, Ambassador at Large for the Black Sea Region, President of the Bulgarian Family Planning and SH Association
  Interviewer Mr. Stan Bernstein, UNFPA
                     
10:30-11:00   Coffee Break 
                     
11:00-11:40   Speech by Ms. Oznur Calik, Chair of Turkish Parliament’s Population and Development Group
                     
11:40-12:00   PRESENTATION: Snapshot of progress in the areas of ICPD Programme of Action in the region (based on the desk review report)
  Ms. Marianne Haslegrave, Consultant 
                     
12:00-13:30    Lunch Break 
                     
13:30-15:30   PANEL BREAKOUTS 1 
  Effective health strategies supporting reproductive health     Strategies for Evidence-based policy development in the population field    Gender Based Violence
  Chair/Moderator: Dr. Rita Columbia, UNFPA   Chair/Moderator: Mr. Francois Farah, UNFPA   Chair/Moderator: Mr. Karen Daduryan, UNFPA
  Panelists: Dr. Monir Islam, WHO   Panelists: Mr. Gevorg Petrosyan, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Armenia   Panelists: Mr. George Tsereteli, Deputy Chair of the Parliament, Georgia
  Dr. Saliah Marzabaeva, MP, Russian Federation   Mr. Francesco Billari, Bocconi University    Ms.Fatma Sahin, MP, Turkey
  Dr. Susannah Mayhew, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK   Mr.Valerii Elizarov, Moscow State University (MGU)   Ms. Selma Acuner, European Women's Lobby
Ms. Carmen MANU, Ministry of Labor, Family and Social Protection 
                   
  Two break-out groups discussing the topic
 
  Two break-out groups discussing the topic   Two break-out groups discussing the topic 
  Co-chair: Ms. Hedia Belhaj, UNFPA   Co-chair:  Mr. Nikolai Botev, UNFPA   Co-chair: Ms. Nuzhat Ehsan, UNFPA 
   
15:30-16:00   Coffee Break
   
16:00-18:00   PANEL BREAKOUTS 2 
  Responses to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic   Development implications of International migration; the perspectives of countries of origin and destination   Youth Policies and Intergenerational Solidarity
  Chair/Moderator: Rev.  James M. Matarazzo Jr., Positive Faith Initiative    Chair/Moderator: Mr. Andres Vikat, UNECE   Chair/Moderator: Ms. Marta Diavolova, UNFPA
  Panelists: Mr. Steven Allen, Regional Director CEE/CIS UNICEF   Panelists: Mrs. Gultakin Hajibeyli, Parliamentarian from Azerbaijan   Panelists: Mr. Daniel Kalajdzieski, YSAFE Network
  Dr. Denis Broun, Chief, Partnerships Division, UNAIDS    Ms. Ella Libanova, Institute for Demography and Social Studies, Ukraine    Y-PEER International Coordinators:
 
  Ms. Svetlana Moroz, GNP+ Board Member, EECA Region   Asel Nussupova, Vice-Minister, Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, Kazakhstan   Ms. Fatma Hacioglu, Mr. Davron Mirsagatov, Mr. Ivica Cekovski
 
  Two break-out groups discussing the topic   Two break-out groups discussing the topic   Two break-out groups discussing the topic
  Co-chair: Ms. Doina Bologa, UNFPA   Co-chair: Mr. Karl Kulessa, UNFPA    Co-chair: Dr. Tunga Tuzer, UNFPA
                   
19:00   Opening Dinner
Day 2 Focus: The Road Ahead with the ICPD Agenda
KEY   SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Track
  POPULATION AND  DEVELOPMENT
 Track
  GENDER
 Track
  CIVIL SOCIETY
 Track
   
9:00 - 9:15   Wrap-up of  Day 1, and bridging to agenda for Day 2 
  Facilitator/Chair: Ms. Thea Fierens, Regional Director, EECA, UNFPA 
   
9:15 -9:45   VOICES OF PEOPLE WE SERVE
Cases from countries: Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Albania
   
9:45 - 10:15   YOUNG PEOPLE: CALL TO ACTION
                     
10:15 – 10:45   Coffee Break
                   
10:45 - 12:45   PANEL BREAKOUTS 3 
  Innovative approaches to Reproductive Health and Rights   The future population dynamics: perspectives for population growth, structures, and distribution in the region and beyond   Gender Equality: the challenges ahead. Male Involvement in Advancing Gender Equality   The Civil Society and the ICPD Agenda 
  Chair/Moderator: Ms. Sandra E. Roelofs, the First Lady of Georgia   Chair/Moderator: Mr. Neil Datta, IEPFPD   Chair/Moderator: Mr. Peer Sieben, UNFPA   Chair/Moderator: Ms. Vicky Claeys, IPPF
  Panelists: Mr. Stan Bernstein, UNFPA   Panalists: Vasile Ghetzau, University of Bucharest, Romania
 
  Panelists: Ms. Jamila Seftaoui, OSCE    
  Ms. Elizabeth Bennour, IPPF EN   Mr. Nikolai Botev, UNFPA   Ms. Janina Andersson, MP, Finland      
  Dr. Petrit Vasili, MoH Albania     Mr. Marek Kupiszewski, Central European Forum for Migration   Ms. Leyla Sharafi, UNFPA    
 
  Two break-out groups discussing the topic    Two break-out groups discussing the topic   Two break-out groups discussing the topic    
  Co-chair: Ms. Thea Fierens, UNFPA             
   
12:45-14:00    Lunch Break 
   
14:00-15:30    ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION 
  Recommendations of the Panel groups to be discussed
  (Facilitated by the panel breakout groups’ chairs)
   
15:30-16:15   Coffee Break 
   
16:15 -17:30   PLENARY SESSION
  The Road Ahead – ICPD@20
  SUMMARY: Ms. Thea Fierens, Chair of the event, Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Office, UNFPA
  CLOSING REMARKS:
Ms. Purnima Mane, Deputy Executive Director, UNFPA
  Mr.Kemal Madenoglu, Undersecretary, State Planning Organization, Government of Turkey Republic