Unfinished business: women and girls front and centre beyond 2015

This post, by Emily Esplen, Policy Analyst on Gender Equality and Women’s Rights at the OECD, is based on a speech prepared for the Secretary General of the OECD for a joint workshop of the DAC Network on Gender Equality and the UN Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality on the MDGs and post-2015. This blog is a part of the Wikiprogress series on Post-2015.

There is no chance of making poverty history without significant and rapid improvements to the lives of women and girls. Millennium Development Goal 3 (MDG 3) recognised that gender equality is important both as a goal in its own right and as a prerequisite to the success of all other development goals. That gender equality and women’s empowerment is one of only eight global goals has proven to be a powerful stimulus for action.

Yet despite hard won gains, we are a long way from achieving gender equality. All over the world, women and girls continue to face discrimination, exclusion, poverty and violence on the basis of their sex. The figures are stark. Gender parity in primary education has not been achieved in 68 countries. Women still face gender pay gaps, occupational segregation and glass ceilings. They hold less secure jobs than men, with fewer social benefits. 800 women die every day from preventable pregnancy and childbirth related causes. One in three women experience violence in their lifetime.

We must do everything we can to achieve the MDGs by the end of 2015. This means meeting existing aid commitments and investing in the right strategies to accelerate progress for women and girls in the time that remains. Finishing the job we started with the MDGs will also require an ambitious and inspiring post-2015 framework that builds on and expands the priority given to advancing gender equality in the MDGs.

Agreeing an ambitious agenda 

 

This was the focus of much lively debate at a workshop in early November in Paris, which drew together gender equality advocates from the United Nations, governments and civil society. Participants echoed the strong consensus emerging from across the globe that addressing the "unfinished business" of gender equality and women’s empowerment means putting women and girls front and centre in the post-2015 framework. This will require a strong stand-alone gender equality goal and the comprehensive integration of gender-specific targets and indicators across the new framework.

Now is time to go beyond business as usual and step up our efforts to empower girls and women. Participants were unequivocal that a new framework will need to address the structural factors that underpin the widespread persistence of gender inequality. This calls for a transformational agenda that is anchored in and aligned with existing international human rights standards. Priority must be given to addressing the disadvantage experienced by the most marginalised women and girls.

Fighting for the targets and indicators that will really make a difference 

 

When the time is right, we need to be ready with the targets and indicators that will really make a difference to the lives of women and girls. Already clear areas of consensus are emerging about what is needed. We know that quality secondary education has huge pay-offs for women’s empowerment. We know that putting an end to early marriage would transform girls’ lives – enabling them to stay in school, fulfil their potential and make choices about their futures. We know that expanding women’s economic opportunities is a key driver of development with multiplier effects for societies, economies and women themselves. We know that women’s capacity to influence the decisions that shape their lives is a basic human right and a prerequisite for responsible and equitable governance. We know that ending violence against women is essential for women’s full participation in economic, social and political life. Each of these must be priorities in the post-2015 framework.

Backing up political rhetoric with action

 

Building a framework with teeth will require adequate and sustained financing, and strong accountability mechanisms. Political promises must be backed up with the resources required to do the job. We need to gather and use high quality data to monitor our progress and build evidence about what works. We also need to track governments’ expenditure and the proportion of aid focused on achieving gender equality, and hold ourselves to account for the promises we make.

Towards a universal agenda

 

At the OECD, we know that there is no country in the world where gender equality has been achieved. That’s why we need to keep a strong focus on gender equality beyond 2015. It is also a potent reminder that gender equality is a universal concern that applies to all countries, including OECD countries.

The OECD aspires to play the role of “best supporting actor” in support of these global processes – recognising that real progress is only possible if countries themselves own the agenda and are in the lead. Bringing gender equality and women’s rights to the centre of government attention is a challenge for the months ahead.

Arriving at global consensus will not be easy. With gender equality and women’s rights we can never afford to be complacent – it is not a done deal. And the post-2015 agenda is a high-stakes game. But success is within our grasp if we build a broad base of support and work together with our allies in the global south to position gender equality as a “must have”.

- Emily Esplen

Visualise How Education Transforms Lives

 This post, written by Wikichild co-ordinator Melinda George, wraps up the Wikiprogress September Series on Education and Skills. It provides the infographics and some key figures from the soon-to-be launched 2013 Education for All Global Monitoring Report.

While we are waiting for the full Education For All Global Monitoring Report (EFA GMR) to be launched, UNESCO has released a booklet of the new infographics and data to show how education transforms lives.  The EFA team also held a tweetchat last week around these infographics. You can search for the #educationtransforms hashtag to catch up on the conversation.

 Education Transforms Lives

Education lights every stage of the journey to a better life, especially for the poor and the most vulnerable. Education’s unique power to act as a catalyst for wider development goals can only be fully realized, however, if it is equitable.

Education empowers girls and young women, in particular, by increasing their chances of getting jobs, staying healthy and participating fully in society – and it boosts their children’s chances of leading healthy lives. 

 To unlock the wider benefits of education, all children need the chance to complete not only primary school but also lower secondary school. 

 

Education Empowers Women to Overcome Discrimination

One in eight girls is married by the age of 15 in sub-Saharan Africa and South and West Asia, and one in seven has given birth by the age of 17. Ensuring that girls stay in school is one of the most effective ways of averting child marriage and early birth. Education is also a key factor in hastening the demographic transition to lower birth and mortality rates.

In Ethiopia, 32% of girls with less than primary education were married before the age of 15, compared with less than 9% of those with secondary education.

 If all countries expanded their school systems at the same rate as the Republic of Korea and Singapore, there would be almost 850 million fewer people in the world by 2050 than if enrolment rates remained at 2000 levels.

 

Education Can Save the Planet

Education can encourage people to use energy and water more efficiently and recycle household waste. In poor countries affected by climate change, education helps people adapt to its effects.

  

Across 29 countries, 25% of people with less than secondary education expressed concern for the environment compared to 37% of people with secondary education and 46% of people with tertiary education.

  Investing between US$11 billion and US$14 billion per year in basic education for girls globally would help their households make better choices to counter the effects of expected weather-related disasters.

 

Equal Education Boosts Economic Growth

 

Education not only helps individuals escape poverty by developing the skills they need to improve their livelihoods, but also generates productivity gains that boost economic growth substantially. For growth to reduce poverty, however, it needs to overcome inequality by improving the lives of the poorest and marginalized the most. 

If education inequality in sub-Saharan Africa had been halved to the level of Latin America and the Caribbean, the annual per capita growth rate over 2005–2010 would have been 47% higher.

 

 

Educating Girls Can Save Millions of Lives 

 

 

There are few more dramatic illustrations of the power of education than the estimate that the lives of 2.1 million children under 5 were saved between 1990 and 2009 because of improvements in girls’ education. 

Education is one of the most powerful ways of improving children’s health. Educated mothers are better informed about specific diseases, so they can take measures to prevent them. They can recognize signs of illness early, seek advice and act on it.

India and Nigeria account for more than a th

ird of child deaths worldwide. If all women in both countries had completed secondary education, the under-5 mortality rate would have been 61% lower in India and 43% lower in Nigeria, saving 1.35 million children’s lives. 

In Burkina Faso, if all women completed primary education, the under-5 mortality rate would fall by 46%; if they completed secondary education, it would fall by 76%.

In sub-Saharan Africa, which accounts for 70% of the world’s HIV infections, 91% of literate women know that HIV is not transmitted by sharing food, compared with 72% of those who are not literate. 

  In the Arab States, a one-year increase in maternal education is associated with a 23% decrease in the number of children under the age of five dying from pneumonia. In Cameroon, where the female secondary gross enrolment ratio was 47% in 2011, if all women had had secondary education, the incidence of malaria would have dropped from 28% to 19%. In low income countries, mothers who have completed primary school are 12% more likely than mothers with no education to seek appropriate health care when their child has symptoms of diarrhoea. 

A Mother's Education is Crucial for Her Own Health 

Every day, almost 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, including pre-eclampsia, bleeding, infections and unsafe abortion. Educated women are more likely to avoid these dangers, by adopting simple and low cost practices to maintain hygiene, by reacting to symptoms, and by making sure a skilled attendant is present at birth.

Education reforms increased education attainment among young women by 1.8 years in Kenya, accounting for a 34% decline in the maternal mortality ratio.

In Nepal, 49% of literate mothers have a skilled attendant at birth, compared with 18% of mothers who are not literate.

  

 Education Keeps Hunger Away

 

Malnutrition is the underlying cause of more than a third of global child deaths. Educated mothers are more likely to ensure that their children receive the best nutrients to help them prevent or fight off ill health, know more about appropriate health and hygiene practices, and have more power in the home to make sure children’s nutrition needs are met.

In South Asia, 22 million fewer children would be stunted if all mothers reached secondary education.

In Honduras, the chances of children being stunted – short for their age – is 54% if they are born to mothers with less than primary education, falling to 33% for those born to mothers with primary education, and to 10% if they are born to mothers with at least secondary education.

 

  

Education strengthens bonds between communities and societies

Across 18 sub-Saharan African countries, those of voting age with primary education are 1.5 times more likely to express support for democracy than those with no education, and the level doubles among those who have completed secondary education.

In Turkey, citizens with secondary education are around twice as likely as those with only primary schooling to sign a petition and participate in a peaceful demonstration.

In Central and Eastern Europe, those with secondary education are 16% less likely than those who have not completed secondary education to express intolerance towards immigrants.

 In Tunisia, while only 22% of those with less than primary education agree that democracy, despite its drawbacks, is the best system of governance, 38% of those with secondary education do so.

 Education Enhances Job Opportunities

 

 If all students in low income countries left school with basic reading skills, 171 million people could be lifted out of poverty, which would be equivalent to a 12% cut in world poverty.

In El Salvador, only 5% of working adults with less than primary education have an employment contract, compared with 47% of working adults with secondary education.

In Jordan, 25% of women with only primary education who live in rural areas work for no pay, compared with 7% of those with secondary education.

 In Pakistan, working women with good literacy skills earn 95% more than women with weak literacy skills.

In rural Indonesia, an additional year of schooling reduced the chances of falling back into poverty by 25%. 

The information above comes from www.education-transforms.org.


- Melinda George

68th UNGA - What's happening?

This blog gives a provisional agenda for the 68th United Nations General Assembly, held from 24 September until 1 October, 2013. It is part of the Wikiprogress Series on Post-2015. The OECD has been very involved in the post-2015 debate. Check out this paper on what the OECD could contribute to the Post-2015 development agenda and framework.

To watch the 68th UNGA live from 23 September, click here. You can also follow discussions in the Twittersphere using the following Hashtags: #UNGA,  #post2015 and #beyond2015. 

DRAFT AGENDA OF THE 68^TH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

24 September – 1 October, 2013

As of 19 September 2013

Monday 23 September

11:00 – 12:30 Launch of the knowledge gateway for women's economic empowerment (No. 16 UN Agenda)

14:00 – 15:00 One Million Voices: Data Analysis from My World (No. 36 UN Agenda) (link to event on 25 Sept 18:15)

Organisers/Hosts ·         My WORLD Survey Participants ·         Claire Melamad, Head of Programme, Growth, Poverty and Inequality, ODI ·         Paul Ladd, Head, Team on the Post 2015 Development Agenda, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP ·         Serin Falu Njie, Deputy Director, Policy, UNMC ·         Amita Dahiya United Nation Volunteer in India country office

13:15-14:30 Civil Society Voices on Post-2015: Messages from the National Level (No. 10 UN Agenda)

15:00 – 17:00 Stability and Peace: Finding the Heart of Sustainable Development (No. 52 UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         Quaker United Nations Office &  Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding Participants ·         Andrew Tomlinson (Quaker United Nations Office) ·         HE Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Minister of Finance the Federal Republic of Nigeria ·         Ms Ann Sofie Nilsson (Director General of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs) ·         Mr Theophilus Ekpon (National Peace Summit Group Nigeria) ·         Dr Zhang Chun (Shanghai Institutes for International Studies) ·         Ms Carolyne Zoduah (AGENDA) ·         Mr Jay Naidoo, Chair of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition)

15:00 – 18:00 (actual 10:00 – 18:00) MDG Success: Accelerating Action and Partnering for Impact (No. 9 UN Agenda-web link)

Organisers/Hosts ·         Executive Office of the Secretary-General Panelists/Participants ·         UN Member States ·         Interational Organisations etc

15:00 – 17:00 What People Want: A report from global conversation on the post-2015 development goals (No. 15 UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         UNDG Participants ·         Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General ·         Helen Clark, UN Development Group Chair ·         Monique Coleman, Actress and Global Youth Ambassador ·         Elizabeth Ford, The Guardian, Moderator ·         others (tbc)

17:30 – 20:30 Investments to End Poverty' Report Launch and Reception

Organisers/Hosts ·         Development Initiatives Panelists/Participants ·         Rajesh Mirchandani, (BBC World Affairs Correspondent) ·         Homi Kharas,  (Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution) ·         Judith Randel, (Executive Director, Development Initiatives ·         Tony Pipa (Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID) ·         Winnie Byanyima, (Executive Director, Oxfam International)

Tuesday 24 September

UNGA General Debate commences (All Day)

7:30 (Breakfast) 08:15 – 09:45 International Youth Voices on Post-2015 (No. 18 UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·      BMZUNICEF & Mexico Panelists/Participants ·         Ahmad Alhendawi (UN Sec Gens Envoy on Youth) ·         Gudrun Kopp (Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany) ·         Dr. Roberto Dondisch (General Director for Global Issues, Foreign Ministry, Mexico) ·         Global Youth Representatives

08:30 - 9:30 Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation Breakfast Meeting (Not in UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         Mexico,  United Kingdom, Indonesia & Nigeria Panelists/Participants Co-Chairs of the Global Partnership: ·         Hon. Armida ALISJAHBANA, Indonesian Minister of National Development Planning ·         Hon. Ngozi OKONJO-IWEALA, Nigerian Minister of Finance Participants: ·         Hon. Justine GREENING, UK Secretary of State for International Development ·         José Antonio Meade Kuribreña Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs ·         Helen Clark (TBC) UNDP Administrator

09:45 – 11:45 OECD Side Event: Shaping coherent and collective action in a post-2015 world: how policy coherence for development can help improve global food security? (No. 22 UN Agenda - link)

Organisers/Hosts ·         OECD OSG/PCD &  Italy Panelists/Participants ·         Lapo Pistelli, Italian Minister for Development Co-operation ·         Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Development ·         Ann-Sofie Nilsson, Swedish Director-General for International Development Co-operation ·         Winifred Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International ·         Private sector representative ·         Dev country representative

11:00-12:30 Voice, agency and participation - intimate strategy session - Clinton Global Initiative (Not in UN Agenda)

Host ·         World Bank Panelists/Participants ·         TBC

11:30 – 13:00 Tackling the unfinished business: Accelerating MDG progress

Organisers/Hosts ·         UNDP & World Bank Panelists/Participants ·         Heads of State ·         Ministers

13:15 – 14:30 Multidimensional Poverty and Multidimensional Measurement of the Post-2015 development agenda (No. 25 UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         Germany, Colombia,  Mexico &  Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Panelists/Participants ·         President Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia (TBC) ·         Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (confirmed) ·         Gonzalo Hernandez Licona, Executive Secretary of CONEVAL, Mexico ·         Bruce Mac Master, Minister of Social Development, Colombia ·         Arssenio Balisacan, Minister Socio-economic Planning, Philippines ·         Shamsuddeen  Usman, Minister of Planning of Nigeria ·         Gudrum Kopp, Parliamentary Secretary of State Germany ·         Representative from UNDP ·         Representative from World Bank

13:00 – 14:30 Side event “The Right to Education in the Post 2015 Development Agenda” (No. 56 UN Agenda) OECD Related paper on PISA for Development

Organisers/Hosts ·         Global Campaign for education, Education international Universal Peace Federation,  OAFLA & First Ladies Community Initiative Panelists/Participants ·         TBC

13:15 – 14:45 Side event of the Leading Group on innovative financing for development : Innovative financing for development : what role in the means of implementation of the post-2015 Development Agenda ? (No. 20 UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         Leading Group on Inovative Financing for Development (FFD) Panelists/Participants ·         President Francois Hollande ·         Mr Philippe Douste,Blazy UN USG UNDESA  Innovative Financing for Development ·         Mr Alfredo Moreno, Minister of External Affairs – Chile ·         Mr. Andris Piebalgs, EU Commissionner Dvp ·         Mr. Pascal Canfin, minister of Development, France ·         Amina Mohammed, Special Advisor to the UNSG on post-2015 ·         Heidi Hautaula, Min of Internat Dev, Finland ·         Rebecca Grynspan, Deputy Admin UNDP ·         President of the Leading Group (Nigeria rep) ·         Mr. Mark Suzman (MD of International Policy and Advocacy, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ·         + more

15:00 – 17:00 Réunion de Haut Niveau sur les OMD - L’Afrique au-delà de 2015 : Quels objectifs pour quel modèle de développement (No. 26 UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         Morocco Panelists/Participants ·         TBC

14:00 – 16:00 MDG 2013 Countdown - girls and women transforming societies (Not in UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         Ford Foundation Panelists/Participants ·         TBC

15:30 – 18:00 OECD Side Event - Global Partnership for Effective Development – Domestic resource mobilisation within a future global partnership for development (No. 27 UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         United Kingdom, Indonesia &  Nigeria Panelists/Participants ·         Minister Ngozi ·         Minister Meade ·         Mr. Thabo Mbeki ·         Director-General Ortega ·         Zeinab Badawi (TBC Moderator) ·         Others TBC

Wednesday 25th September

All Day (09:00 – 18:00) UNGA President Special Event on MDGs and post-2015

08:00 – 09:45 The Power of Numbers (No. 28 UN Agenda) Organisers/Hosts ·         Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation - Sweden, Colombia & Sweden Panelists/Participants ·         TBC

08:00 – 09:30 Looking to 2015 and beyond: The role for anti-corruption and governance (No. 33 UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         UNDP, UNODC & Transparency International Panelists/Participants ·         Panel TBC ·         Director general of SIDA ·         Assistant Secretary General of UNOHCHR

8:30 – 10:30 Women delivering development:  integrating women, reproductive health and environmental issues into the post-2015 agenda, sustainable development goals and FP2020 (No. 64 UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         Center for Environment and Population Panelists/Participants ·         TBC

09:30 – 11:00 High-Level Ministerial Meeting on the Humanitarian Crisis in Central African Republic and the International Response (Not in UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         OCHA ·         France ·         EU Panelists/Participants ·         Ms. Valerie Amos, Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator ·         Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, EU Commissioner for Internatioal Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response ·         Others

10:30 – 13:00 UNGA President Special Event on MDGS and post-2015 - Roundtable 2

Organisers/Hosts ·         President of UNGA ·         Ireland ·         South Africa Panelists/Participants ·         Roundtable 2 Co-Chairs: ·         Prime Minster Bangladesh ·         Deputy Prime Minster Ireland ·         UN Member States ·         Observers ·         NGOs etc

10:30 – 13:30 The voices of people living in poverty in the post-2015 agenda: Inclusion, participation and dignity (No. 60 UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         Caritas Internationalis, CAFOD and Trocaire Panelists/Participants ·         TBC

11:00 - 13:00 Global Education First Initiative Anniversary Event: Learning for All High-Level Meeting on Coordinating the Financing and Delivery of Education (Not in UN Agenda)

13:15 – 14:45 Freedom from violence for every woman and girl (Not in UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         Finland, Liberia, UN Women Panelists/Participants ·         TBC

13:00 – 15:00 Tackling Water Risks to Secure a Sustainable Future Ministerial Lunch (No. 31 UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         Switzerland,  Netherlands,  Colombia,  UNSGAB & World Water Council Panelists/Participants ·         Michel Jarraud, Chair of UN-Water and Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization ·         Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations (tbc) ·         Didier Burkhalter, Vice-President and Foreign Minister of Switzerland ·         Lilianne Ploumen, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation of the Netherlands ·         Patti Londoño, Vice-Minister for Multilateral Affairs of Colombia ·         Juanita Castaño, member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation ·         Benedito Braga, President of the World Water Council

13:15 – 14:45 Effectiveness and accountability in the post-2015 development agenda – lessons from the MDG experience (No. 30 UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         UNDESA & Germany Panelists/Participants ·         TBC Note: The side event will publicly launch the preparations for the DCF Germany High-level Symposium, on “Accountable and effective development cooperation in a post-2015 era” (Berlin, March 2014)

15:30 – 17:00 Deauville Foreign Ministers Meeting (Not in UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         United Kingdom Panelists/Participants ·         TBC

12:00 – 15:00 A Transformative agenda for sustainable development in Nigeria and Africa: Lessons, actions and emerging perspectives (No. 34 UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         Nigeria Panelists/Participants ·         TBC

18:00 – 20:00 Global Education First Initiative Reception and Launch of the Learning Metrics Task Force Report (Not in UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         Center for Universal Education at Brookings and Partners Panelists/Participants ·         TBC

18:15 – 20:00 MY World Partner Recognition Event and Award Ceremony (No. 36 Un Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         MY World Team (UN Millennium Campaign, UNDP, ODI),  United Nations Volunteers, United Nations Foundation, UNICEF & M&C Saatchi Panelists/Participants ·         Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Special Advisor of the United Nations Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning ·         Mr. Richard Dictus Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme ·         Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah ·         (Other) Members of the Secretary-General's High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons

Thursday 26 September

10:00 – 12:00 OECD Side Event Engineering a Development Data Revolution: Post-2015 and the Global Partnership for Development Data (No. 46 UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         Philippines National Economic and Development Authority &  OECD/PARIS21 Panelists/Participants ·         Arsenio M. Balisacan, Secretary Socioeconomic Planning, Philippines ·         Jose Ramon Albert, National Statistics Coordination Board, Phillipines ·         Neil Fantom, Manager, World Bank Open Data Initiative ·         Chris Gingerich, Deputy Director, Data and Analytics, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ·         Judith Randel, Exec Director, Development Initiatives ·         World Bank ·         Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ·         Development Initiatives

13:15 – 14:45 Ensure stable, secure and resilient societies in the Post-2015 Development Agenda (No. 42 UN Agenda)

Organisers/Hosts ·         Finland,  Guatemala,  UNDP,  PBSO, UNICEF, Timor Leste, UN PBSO, Saferworld & IEP Panelists/Participants ·         H.E. Heidi Hautala, Minister for International Development of Finland ·         Ms. Helen Clark, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), ·         H.E. José Luís Guterres, Minister of State and of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Timor-Leste ·         Representative of the Government of Rwanda ·         Ms. Ekaterina Parrilla, Secretary for Planning and Programming, Guatemala ·         Mr. Vasu Gounden, Executive Director, The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)

Friday 27 September

08:30 – 14:30 Global Development after 2015: The Role of Foundations and Civil Society (No. 44 UN Agenda)-Link

Organisers/Hosts ·         UNDP,  Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation (in collaboration with WINGS, OECD netFWD and EFC) Panelists/Participants ·         Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation ·         Heather Grady, Vice President, Rockefeller Foundation ·         Others TBC

We look forward to keeping you informed!

Wikiprogress Team