THE 2009 INTERNATIONAL PARLIAMENTARIANS’ CONFERENCE ON THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ICPD PROGRAMME OF ACTION
AGENDA
1st Day
| 10:00-22:00 |
Registration
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(Venue Tbd) |
| 15:00-17:00 |
Steering Committee Meeting
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(Venue Tbd) |
| 17:30-18:30 |
Briefing For Chairs, Resource Persons and Rapporteurs of the Group Discussions
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| 19:30-21:00 |
Welcome Reception
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(Venue Tbd) |
| 21:00-22:00 | Drafting committee meeting | (Venue Tbd) |
2nd Day
| 8:00-12:00 |
Registration (continued)
(United Nations Conference Center)
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| 9:00-10:00 |
Opening Ceremony
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1. Opening remarks · Hon. Ambassador, Teshome Toga Chanaka, Speaker, House of Peoples’ Representative of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (T.b.c) 2. 2. Keynote Address · · Her Excellency, Ms. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President, Republic of Liberia (Invited) 3. 3. Welcome Address · · Ms. Thoraya Ahmad Obaid, Executive Director, UNFPA (Confirmed)
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| 10:00-10:45 |
Opening Session
Chair: Ms. Khira Lagha Ben Chair: Ms. Khira
Lagha Ben Fadhel, MP (Tunisia) and President of FAAPPD
(T.b.c)
1. Purpose of the Conference · · Ms. Safiye Cagar, Director, Information and External Relations Division (IERD)/ UNFPA (Confirmed) 2. 2. Keynote Speech · · Ms. Thoraya A. Obaid, Executive Director, UNFPA · · Ms. Gill Greer, Director-General, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) (Confirmed) 3. 3. Election of Officers 4. 4. Election of Drafting Committee Members
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(Plenary) |
| 10:45-11:00 |
Special Guest Statement 1. 1. Outcome of the high-level meeting on MDG5 · · Mr. Bert Koenders, Minister for Development Cooperation, the Netherlands (Confirmed)
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| 11:00-11:20 |
Coffee Break
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(Venue Tbd) |
| 11:20-13:00 |
Session 1 Panel discussion: Achieving the ICPD Goals by 2014: The Way Forward
Moderator: (T.b.d.) Speakers (15-minute presentations followed by a Q & A session)
1. 1. ICPD and its linkage to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) · · Mr. Hans Rosling, Professor, International Health, Karolinska Institute, and Director, Gapminder Foundation (Confirmed) 2. Development Financing and Integration of Universal Access to Reproductive Health into National Development Strategies · Ms. Joy Phumaphi, Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank (Confirmed) 3. Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Development Agenda · Mr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations (Invited)
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(Plenary) |
| 13:00-13:30 |
Group Photo
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(Venue Tbd) |
| 13:30-15:00 |
Lunch
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(Venue Tbd) |
| 15:00-16:30 |
Session 2
Parliamentary Interventions: National Challenges in Implementing the Cairo Agenda and Way forward to 2015 – Role of Parliament
Moderator: Ms. Zenab Badawi, Newscaster, British Broadcasting Cooperation, United Kingdom (T.b.d) Speakers (3-minute presentation from the floor by the representative of the Parliaments):
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(Plenary) |
| 16:30-16:50 |
Coffee Break
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(Venue Tbd) |
| 16:50-18:20 |
Session 3 Parliamentary Interventions: National Challenges in Implementing the Cairo Agenda and Way forward to 2015 – Role of Parliament
Moderator: Ms. Zenab Badawi, Newscaster, British Broadcasting Cooperation, United Kingdom (T.b.d) Speakers (3-minute presentation from the floor by the representative of the Parliaments):
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(Plenary) |
| 18:20- |
Closing
Of Day 1
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(Plenary) |
| 19:00-20:30 |
Reception
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(Venue Tbd) |
| 21.00- | Drafting Committee Meeting | (Venue Tbd) |
3rd Day
| 8:00-8:45 |
Drafting Committee Meeting
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(Venue Tbd) |
| 9:00-10:30 |
Session 4 Parliamentary Interventions: National Challenges in Implementing the Cairo Agenda and Way forward to 2015 – Role of Parliament
Moderator: Ms. Zenab Badawi, Newscaster, British Broadcasting Cooperation, United Kingdom (T.b.d) Speakers (3-minute presentation from the floor by the representative of the Parliaments):
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(Plenary) |
| 10:30- 10:50 |
Coffee Break
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(Venue Tbd) |
| 10:50-12:20 |
Session 5 Parallel Roundtable Discussions – approx. 30 parliamentarians in each group
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1. Engaging Decision Makers in Achieving MDG5 and Saving Women’s Lives Chair: A parliamentarian (T.b.d) Resource Person: Ms. Jill Sheffield, President, Women Deliver (Confirmed) |
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2. Role of Parliamentarians in Improving Implementation of Gender Equality Laws Chair: A parliamentarian (T.b.d) Resource Person: Ms. Rachel N. Mayanja, Special Adviser, Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, United Nations (Confirmed) |
(Venue Tbd)
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3. Do the Youth of Today have better Access to Reproductive Health than 15 years ago? Chair : A parliamentarian (T.b.d) Resource Person: Mr. Ozzie Warwick, Chief of Education and Research, Oilfields Workers Trade Union (OWTU), Trinidad and Tobago (Confirmed) |
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4. Climate Change and the Environment - the Interrelationship between Population Dynamics and the Environment Chair : A parliamentarian (T.b.d) Resource Person: Mr. Lester Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute (Confirmed) |
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5. Making Migration Work for all Countries Chair : A parliamentarian (T.b.d) Resource Person: Mr. William Lacy Swing, Director General, International Organization for Migration (Invited) |
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6. Reproductive Health and Advancing Human Rights through Culturally Sensitive Approaches Chair : A parliamentarian (T.b.d) Resource Person: Prof. Mahmoud Fathallah, Chair, Global Advisory Committee on Health Research, World Health Organization (Confirmed) |
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7. Moving towards Social Budgeting to Achieve the ACCRA Agenda Chair : A parliamentarian (T.b.d) Resource Person: Hon. Mr. Kamuntu Ephraim, Minister of State for Planning, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Affairs, Uganda (Invited)
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| 12:20-13:30 |
Session 6 Presentation of the Outcome of the Roundtable Discussions by Each Group Moderator: TBD Presentations by Chairs of the Roundtables
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(Plenary) |
| 13:30-15:00 | Lunch |
(Venue Tbd)
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| 15:00- 15:30 |
(Video Presentations, side events, exhibitions etc)
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(Parallel drafting committee meeting to incorporate text from
Participants to the draft statement of commitment)
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| 15:30-17:00 |
Session 7 Discussion on the Draft Statement of Commitment Moderator: TBD
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(Plenary)
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| 17:00-17:30 |
Session 8 Discussion on Follow-up · Ms. Safiye Cagar, Director, Information and External Relations Division, UNFPA · Ms. Khira Lagha Ben Fadhel, MP (Tunisia) and President of FAAPPD · Host parliamentary group for the 2011 IPCI/ICPD: Ms. Carla Rivera-Avni, IAPG
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(Plenary) |
| 17:30-18:00 |
Closing Session 1. Adoption of the Statement of Commitment 2. Closing Remarks Chair of the Conference
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(Plenary) |
| 18:00 | OPTIONAL ACTIVITY |