CSW62 side event: Empowering women across the humanitarian–development–peace nexus

Co-organized by UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA, OCHA, and Care International, with the Government of Sweden, this event will be a Davos-style panel, with a moderator posing questions to the speakers and opening the floor for discussion.

Date: Tuesday, 20 March 2018, 11.30 a.m. – 12.45 p.m. EDT
Location: Conference Room 11, UN Conference Building, UN Headquarters, New York, NY 10017. . Enter through the Visitors’ Entrance, 1st Avenue and East 46th Street.

The purpose of this panel discussion is to:

• Raise awareness of the important leadership roles women are playing in humanitarian and crisis contexts and how investing in gender equality and women’s empowerment leads to better peacebuilding, recovery and development outcomes.
• Push for strong and consistent leadership by Member States, the United Nations, and international organizations in addressing gender equality and women’s empowerment across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.
• Discuss new approaches—including the joint UNW/UNDP/UNHCR programme, “Step it up – Investing in Gender Equality across the Humanitarian-Development Nexus”—to ensure transformative change for gender equality and women’s empowerment in recovery from crisis in order to improve the lives of women and girls and enhance gender equality.

Panel members:

• Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UN Women
• Dr. Natalia Kanem, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, UNFPA
• Mr. Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary General and Emergency Relief Coordinator, OCHA
• Mr. Mar Dieye, Assistant Administrator and Director of Bureau of Programme and Policy Support, UNDP
• Ms.  Sheba Crocker, Senior Vice President of Humanitarian Action and Policy, CARE International
• Sweden (Ministry of Social Development – TBC)
• Ms. Aviah Scoviah Miria, Programme Manager of “Steward Women” South Sudan

Moderator: Ms. Femi Oke

For more information, please see the concept note.