lunedì 2 Ottobre 2017
Fino al 4 ottobre, Fez, Marocco

Convegno European Parliamentary Forum (EPF) “Upholding the Rights of Girls, Ending Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage”


 

INTERNATIONAL PARLIAMENTARIANS’ CONSULTATION

Fez, Morocco / 2-3 October 2017

Upholding the Rights of Girls, Ending Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage:


DRAFT Agenda


Day 1 (full day)
Monday, 2 Oct 2017, 9.30-17.00

Time

Speaker
9.30-10.15
Session 1

Welcome / Introduction
1. Hon. Marie Rose Nguini Effa, MP, Cameroon, Member of the Pan-African Parliament, FPA Chair2. Hon. Pia Locatelli, MP, tbc3. Hon. MP from Morocco, tbc
10.15-10.20

 

Video: E.g. The day I was mutilated. The day I became a woman (UNFPA)https://youtu.be/YkPGUODp9ig (2’20)

 

The world we want: End child marriage (Girls not Brides 2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvQjBjqmNLM (2’48)

 

10.20-11.00 Session 2Keynote addresses

 

1. Karen Daduryan, Deputy Regional Director, UNFPA Arab States Regional Office
2. Dr. Margaret Agama-Anyetei, Head of Division for Health, Population and Nutrition, African Union Commission

 

3. Hon. Haidara Aichata Cisse, MP, Mali, Chairperson of the Pan-African Parliament’s Women’s Caucus and Chair of the Malian Women Parliamentarians Forum, tbc

 

 

11.00-11.30

 

Coffee break

 

11.30-13.00 Session 3Panel discussion: Ending Female Genital Mutilation
Moderator: Nafissatou Diop, Senior Adviser and Coordinator, UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on FGM/C
1. Bréhima Ballo, AMSOPT – Association Malienne pour le Suivi et l’Orientation des Pratiques Traditionelles (Mali)2. Maria Grazia Panunzi, President, AIDOS, Italy

3. Muna Hassan, Co-founder Integrate UK

 

4. Khadija T. Moalla, PhD, Senior International Consultant

Group Discussion – Q&A

13.00-13.15 Video – Abandoning FGM on FM sub ita(AIDOS 2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egNiC3_cDY8

(5.34’)

or:
Video – AIDOS: Introduction and video:

De retour au pays (Going back home) (10’54)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TA5nKupoko

Short introduction by Maria Grazia Panunzi, President, AIDOS Italy

 

 


13.15-14.15

Lunch
14.15-14.30 Power walk – (adapted to topic of conference) Ruairi Talbot, Communication & Outreach Officer
14.30-15.30 Session 4Introduction to social media toolkit and the MPs video messages – to be produced during the rest of the meeting – Ruairi Talbot, Communication & Outreach Officer, EPF

 

15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.30  

Session 5

Panel discussion: Child Marriage

 

Moderator: Valentina Volpe, Regional Program Specialist, UNFPA Arab States Regional Office

 

1. Joséphine TRAORE épse  KEITA, Association Malienne pour le Bien-Etre de la Femme et de l’Enfant (AMBEFE)

2. Dr. Kelley Moult, Director & Senior Researcher, Center for Law and Society, University of Cape Town

3. Maxence DAUBLAIN (Mr), Policy Officer, Child rights, gender, discrimination, Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO) – EuropeAid – EU Commission
Group Discussion – Q&A

 

 

 

 


Day 2 (full day)
Tuesday, 3 Oct 2017, 9.00-15.00
 

9.00-10.00

 

 

Session 1

Roundtable discussions with girls and boys (tbc)

 

10.00-11.30 Session 2Focus on diaspora populations

 

Moderator: Françoise Kpelgo Moudouthe, Head of Africa Engagement, Girls Not Brides, Senegal

 

1. Khadidiatou Diallo, President and founder of GAMS, Belgium

 

2. Chiara Cosentino, Policy & Advocacy Officer, End FGM European Network

 

3. Virginia Wangare Greiner, Director and founder of Maisha e.V. African Women in Germany

 

4. Alice Frade, Executive Director, P&D Factor, Portugal

 

Group Discussion – Q&A

 

11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12.00-13.30 Session 3Roundtable – what can parliamentarians do? – Working Groups

Basic principles to be considered in laws and policies to end harmful practices

 

Moderator: Ragaa Said, Parliamentary Affairs Specialist, UNFPA and Neil Datta, Secretary, EPF

 

 


13.30-14.30
 

Group Lunch
 

14.30-
16.00

 

Session 4

Discussion with MPs on their role in enforcing implementation of laws

 

Moderator: Ragaa Said, Parliamentary Affairs Specialist, UNFPA and Neil Datta, Secretary, EPF

 

 

16.00-16.30

 

Concluding remarks

EPF

UNFPA

 


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