Official Meetings

Organization of the session

In accordance with its multi-year programme of work (ECOSOC resolution 2016/3), the Commission's two-week session will include the following activities: Organization of work.

First week	10 a.m.-1 p.m.	3-6 p.m.
Monday 12 March	Opening of the session Election of officers (Item 1) Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters (Item 2) Introduction of documents (Item 3 as a whole) General discussion(Item 3)(opens) Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, identifying goals attained, achievements made and efforts under way to close gaps and meet challenges in relation to the priority theme and the review theme *1 p.m.: deadline for inscription on list of speakers for the general discussion*	Ministerial segment: 4 Ministerial Round Tables on the priority theme: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls (in two parallel meetings) Topic A: Good practices in the empowerment of rural women and girls, including through access to education, infrastructure and technology, food security and nutrition MRT 1: 3:00 – 4:30 pm; CR 4 MRT 2: 4:30 – 6:00 pm; CR 4 Topic B: Good practices in the empowerment of rural women and girls, including through prevention of gender-based violence and through access to justice, social services and health care MRT 3: 3:00 – 4:30 pm; CR 1 MRT 4: 4:30 – 6:00 pm; CR 1
Tuesday 13 March	General discussion (Item 3) (continued) *in parallel with:* High-level interactive dialogue among Ministers on the priority theme 'Building alliances to achieve gender equality and empower rural women and girls'	General discussion (Item 3) (continued) *in parallel with:* High-level Interactive dialogue 'Accelerating implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and achieving concrete results by 2020'
Wednesday 14 March	General discussion (Item 3) (continued) *in parallel with:* Interactive dialogue Review theme 'Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women'	General discussion (Item 3) (continued) *in parallel with:* Interactive dialogue Review theme 'Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women'
Thursday 15 March	General discussion (Item 3) (continued)	General discussion (Item 3) (continued) *in parallel with:* Agreed conclusions: Informal consultations
Friday 16 March	Interactive expert panel on the priority theme: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls 'The role of rural women’s land rights and land tenure security in reaching the SDGs' *in parallel with:* Agreed conclusions: Informal consultations	Interactive expert panel on the review theme 'Innovative data approaches for measuring progress on gender equality and women’s empowerment' *in parallel with:* Agreed conclusions: Informal consultations

Second week	10 a.m.-1 p.m.	3-6 p.m.
Monday 19 March	[No scheduled meetings]	Agreed conclusions: Informal consultations
Tuesday 20 March	Agreed conclusions: Informal consultations	Agreed conclusions: Informal consultations *1 p.m.: deadline for submission of draft proposals*
Wednesday 21 March	Closed meeting to consider the report of the Working Group on Communications (Item 4) *Followed by:* Follow-up to the Economic and Social Council resolutions and decisions (Item 5) - introduction and discussion *Introduction of draft proposals* General discussion (Item 3)(concludes)	Agreed conclusions: Informal consultations
Thursday 22 March	Agreed conclusions: Informal consultations	Agreed conclusions: Informal consultations
Friday 23 March	Action on draft proposals Action on draft agreed conclusions Action onany other outstanding issues Provisional agenda for the 63^rd session of CSW (Item 6) Adoption of the report of the CSW on its 62^nd session (Item 7) Closure of the 62^nd session Opening of 63^rd session Election of Bureau	As needed: Continuation of closing meeting

Interactive events

Discussion guide for the ministerial round tables on the priority theme: E/CN.6/2018/5

Ministerial round table 1

'Good practices in the empowerment of rural women and girls, including through access to education, infrastructure, technology and nutrition'

Monday, 12 March 2018, 3.00 - 4.30 pm
Conference Room 4, Conference Building

Chair: H.E. Mr. Indrek Saar, Minister of Culture, Estonia

Ministerial round table 2

'Good practices in the empowerment of rural women and girls, including through access to education, infrastructure, technology and nutrition'

Monday, 12 March 2018, 4.30 - 6.00 pm
Conference Room 4, Conference Building

Chair: H.E. Ms. Margaret Kobia, Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs, Kenya

Ministerial round table 3

'Good practices in the empowerment of rural women and girls, including through prevention of gender-based violence and access to justice, social services and health care'

Monday, 12 March 2018, 3.00 - 4.30 pm
Conference Room 1, Conference Building

Chair: H.E. Ms. Martha Ordoñez, Presidential Councillor for Gender Equality, Colombia

Ministerial round table 4

'Good practices in the empowerment of rural women and girls, including through prevention of gender-based violence and access to justice, social services and health care'

Monday, 12 March 2018, 4.30 - 6.00 pm
Conference Room 1, Conference Building

Chair: H.E. Mr. Issa bin Saad Al Jafali Al Nuaimi, Minister of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs, Qatar

High-level interactive dialogue among Ministers on the priority theme

'Building alliances to achieve gender equality and empower rural women and girls'

Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 10.00 am - 1.00 pm
Conference Room 4, Conference Building

Chair: H.E. Mr. David Stanton, Minister for Equality, Integration and Immigration, Ireland

High-level interactive dialogue

'Accelerating implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and achieving concrete results by 2020'

Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 3.00 - 6.00 pm
Conference Room 4, Conference Building

Chair: H.E. Ms. Koki Muli Grignon, Vice-Chair, Kenya

Interactive dialogue

Review theme: 'Participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women'

Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 10.00 am - 1.00 pm
Conference Room 4, Conference Building

Chair: Ms. Rena Tasuja, Vice-Chair, Estonia

Chair's summary
Concept note
Voluntary presentation - Belgium
Voluntary presentation - Sri Lanka [Synopsis]
Voluntary presentation - Colombia
Voluntary presentation - Saudi Arabia [Video]
Voluntary presentation - New Zealand [Synopsis]
Voluntary presentations - Bulgaria
Presentation 1, by H.E. Mr. Georgi Panayotov
Presentation 2, by Genoveva Tisheva

Interactive dialogue

Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 3.00 - 6.00 pm
Conference Room 4, Conference Building

Chair: Mr. Mauricio Carabali Baquero, Vice-Chair, Colombia

Interactive expert panel

Priority theme: 'Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls'

Friday, 16 March 2018, 10.00 am - 1.00 pm
Conference Room 4, Conference Building

Chair: Mr. Shah Asif Rahman, Vice-Chair, Bangladesh

Panelists:

Ms. Naela Gabr, Member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
CEDAW and the Role of Rural Women's Land Rights [Paper]
Ms. Rea Abada Chiongson, Senior Legal Advisor on Gender, International Development Law Organization
Exploring rule of law challenges and approaches [Paper]
Mr. Robert Ndugwa, Officer in charge, Global Urban Observatory Unit in the Research and Capacity Development Branch, UN-Habitat
Improving Access to Women's Land Rights Data for Policy Decisions: Lessons Learnt and Opportunities linked to SDGs [Paper]
Ms. Tzili Mor, Board of the International Action Network for Gender Equity and Law
Rooting Women's Land Rights in Law and Practice [Paper]
Ms. Yolanda Teran Maigua, Coordinator of Education and Culture, Indigenous Women's Network on Biodiversity from Latin America and the Caribbean
Indigenous women and their right to land [Paper]

Interactive expert panel

'Innovative data approaches for measuring progress on gender equality and women's empowerment'

Friday, 16 March 2018, 3.00 - 6.00 pm
Conference Room 4, Conference Building

Chair: H.E. Ms. Koki Muli Grignon, Vice-Chair, Kenya

Panelists:

Ms. Nandini Chami, Senior Research Associate, IT for Change
Using information and communications technologies (ICTs) as a tool for advancing gender equality and women's empowerment: opportunities and challenges [Paper] [Presentation]
Ms. Nnenna Nwakanma, Senior Policy Manager, World Wide Web Foundation
The need for safe, open and gender responsive data. She will be sharing the experience across Africa [Paper]
Ms. Irena Krizman, Co-Chair of ISI Statistical Capacity Building Committee
Data governance and the role of State and non-State actors in support of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls [Paper]
Mr. Steve Macfeely, Head of Statistics, UNCTAD
Monitoring the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: the role of Big Data [Paper] [Presentation]
Mr. Jaime Sebastian Lobo Tovar, National Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia (DANE)
Big data and the modernization of national statistical systems. He will be sharing experiences from Colombia [Paper] [Presentations: English | Spanish]