CSW62 side event: Delivering as One: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals with and for rural women and girls
Date: Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 10–11.15 a.m. EDT
Location: Conference Room 1, UN Conference Building, UN Headquarters, New York, NY, 10017, USA. Enter through the Visitors’ Entrance, 1st Avenue and East 46th Street.
This side event brings together the Rome-based Agencies (FAO, IFAD, WFP) and UN Women and high-level government officials to engage with a diverse audience to assess the opportunities for strengthening collaboration and strategize on how to reinforce sustainable development with and for rural women and girls. A key guiding question will be how each organization or sector can build on their experiences and comparative advantage to enhance efficient and effective partnership and collaboration for gender-responsive rural transformation in the context of the SDGs.
For more information and to RSVP, please contact Venge Nyirongo.
Speakers include:
- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women
- Subandi Sardjoko, Deputy Minister, Ministry of National Development Planning, Indonesia
- Cornelia Richter, Vice President, IFAD
- Joan Carling, Co-convener of the Indigenous Peoples’ Major Group on SDGs
- Rodrigo Gouveia, Director of Policy, International Co-operative Alliance
Moderator: Ambassador Lot Dzonzi, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Mission of Malawi to the United Nations
This event is open to CSW62 delegates, UN-accredited media, UN grounds pass holders, and others without UN grounds passes who have RSVPed to Venge Nyirongo.
