Conference: Towards 2030 – Status post-Beijing+20 and 2030-development agenda Year One

The goals were adopted by UN member states, UN organizations, and other intergovernmental organizations with broad support from civil society organizations, trade unions, the private sector, and international institutions.

The conference will also examine linkages between post-Beijing+20 implementation and the SDGs, as well as the challenges and obstacles ahead to the realization of human rights, gender equality, and the empowerment of women and girls.

The event will highlight the synergies and gaps between the BD-PFA and the SDGs as a means to explore how the BD-PFA can be fully realized by 2030 and the SDGs become thoroughly gender mainstreamed.

In short, the conference asks: where are we one year later with the implementation of the post-Beijing+20 agenda by 2030 and the introduction of the new 2030 agenda? What must we do to achieve the world we want? What must we do to achieve progress?

The conference is organized by KULU – Women and Development (KULU) and GLOBELICS with keynote speakers UN Women Nordic Office, Mali, El Salvador, and the Danish Foreign Ministry and contributions from parliamentarians.

 Context

The conference is part of KULUs Dialogue Visit 2016 with KULU-partner MUSONET-Mali and 16 Days’ Campaign against Violence Against Women/Girls that focus on the topic, "Safe Schooling for Girls in Mali".

The theme links KULU-MUSONET’s  campaign and project ”Enable Girls’ and Women’s Rights in Mali/Giv en pige ret” * and the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 with a focus on women’s active role in conflict resolution and peace building in Mali. (*see www.Givenpigeret.dk)

The conference also follows up on the results of KULU’s international conference of 24 November 2014, which was carried out in cooperation with UN Women's Nordic Office, the UN-Association of Denmark, and the Social Liberal Party (Radikal Venstre).

The main results:

1) Establishment of a CSO platform "Global Alliance Post-Beijing+20", GAP-Beijing+20, consisting of KULU and three other women’s rights and development organizations from the countries that hosted the UN World Women‘s Conferences – Mexico (‘75), Denmark (‘80), Kenya (‘85) and Beijing (’95) – as regional focal points working for the renewal and implementation of the BD-PFA after 2015.

2) Advocacy for the establishment of the G4 country group in the UN-system, consisting of the four host countries of the UN World Women's Conferences. The UN G4 group was launched at the UN Commission of the Status of Women, March 2015, and has functioned since then.

The following questions will be addressed:

How do the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action+20 and the 17 global SDGs influence each other?

How is the BPFA with updates being realized post-2015?

Are women’s/girls’ rights and gender equality at the center of the 17 SDGs?

What is Denmark doing and what must be done in Denmark, Africa and Latin America to develop the world we want and need?

Registration: Send name, title, organization to – [email protected] – by Tuesday, 22 November, 12:00 hrs.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Wednesday, 23 November 2016, 

9.00-09-10        Registration (Coffee and tea available)

9.10-09.25        Welcome remarks and Setting the scene:

Post-Beijing+20, Global Development Goals, GAP-2015 and G4

by Janice G Førde, Chairperson, KULU-Women and Development and

Margrethe Holm Andersen, Senior Advisor, Globelics Secretariat

Moderator: Margrethe Holm Andersen, Senior Advisor, Globelics

Panel 1: The Post-Beijing Platform for Action+20 and the Global Sustainable Development Goals – Status Year One?

How do the BPFA+20 and the 17 global sustainable development goals (SDGs) influence each other?

How is the BPFA with updates being realized post-2015?

Are women’s/girls’ rights and gender equality at the center of the 17 SDGs?

What needs to be done?

9.25-9.30           UN Women, Post-Beijing+20 and the SDGs

by Asger Ryhl, Director, UN Women Nordic Office

9.30-9.40           African Eyes on Post-Beijing+20 and the Global Sustainable Development Goals

By Mama Koité Doumbia, president MUSONET-Mali 

9.40-9.45           Latin American Eyes on Post-Beijing+20 and the SDGs

By Marta B e navides, SIGLO XXIII, El Salvador, chair, Feminist Task Force

                                                      

9.45-9.55           African Eyes on SDG 16 and SDG 16.9:

SDG16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels, and

SDG16.9. By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration 

By Bintou Founé Sameké, WILDAF-Mali president and MUSONET-Mali

 

9.55-10.00        The 2030-Development Agenda, BPFA+20, and Denmark’s Coming Development and Humanitarian Strategy

By Stefan Kovacs, Senior Advisor, Department for Multilateral Cooperation, Climate Change and Gender Equality, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark

10.00-10.30      Open discussion with all (questions and comments from panellist and the floor)

10.30-11.00         Coffee/tea break

Panel 2 – Parliamentarians on Post-BPfA+20, SDGs, Danish Development and Humanitarian Strategy 2016?

Is the BPFA+20 being implemented?

Are women’s/girls’ rights and gender equality at the center of the 17 SDGs?

What is Denmark doing and what should be done in Denmark and internationally to develop the world we need?

11:00-11:20      Holger K Nielsen, SF (Socialist People’s Party)

EL, RV, S (TBC)

11.20-11.50      Exchange with Panel 1 participants

11.50-12:15      Open discussion with all (questions and comments from the floor)

12:15-12.30      Closing  

ORGANIZERS 

KULU-Women and Development (KULU) is a non-partisan women’s rights advocacy and development organization for 24 women´s organizations, women and equality councils of political parties, development NGOs, trade unions, and other civil society organizations and individual members.

KULU was created in connection with the first UN International Women’s Conference in 1975 and officially established in 1976 at the beginning of the UN Decade for Women. KULU has since then been an active contributor to Danish and international development policy and aid discourse and advocacy.

GLOBELICS Global network of scholars working on innovation and competence building in the context of economic development.

The network is open and diverse in terms of disciplines, perspectives and research tools. Its core field of study is the role of innovation, and of innovation systems as complexes of institutions that mold and support innovation in countries at different levels of industrialization.

 SPONSORS:

Hermod Lannungs Fond, Danidas Oplysningsbevilling, Ellen Hørups Fond, Social Liberal Party/Radikal Venstre,  Socialist Peoples’ Party/Socialistisk Folkeparti