Ms. Agnes Leina is the Founder and Executive Director of Il’laramatak Community Concerns (ICC) whose name denotes ‘care-givers’, or pastoralist. ICC is an Indigenous People’s Organization whose main goal is to restore dignity among Indigenous people, with special emphasis on Girls and Women. ICC envisions a society of Indigenous Peoples of Kenya that is free from all forms of discrimination. She…
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A scientist by training, Ms. Mandy Rambharos joined recently the Environmental Defense Fund after decades at Eskom Holdings where she served as the General Manager of Just Energy Transition. In that role, she led the development of Eskom’s strategy to transition from a coal-dominated utility to a renewables company. She is a former negotiator for South Africa at the United Nations climate talks,…
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Ms. Grace Balawag is the Deputy Coordinator for the Indigenous Peoples’ Partnership on Climate Change, Forests and Sustainable Development, working with fourteen country Indigenous Peoples Organizations in eleven countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. She is of the indigenous caucus, Tebtebba-Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education. Ms. Balawag joined…
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Ms. Runa Khan, an Ashoka fellow and Schwab Foundation social entrepreneur, is the Founder and Executive Director of Friendship NGO. Friendship was founded drawing upon Ms. Runa Khan’s wide range of practical experiences of teaching, setting up small businesses, tourism, and communication among others and pioneered floating hospitals, provides integrated services for climate-impacted communities,…
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Developing countries have the opportunity to simultaneously reduce emissions from agriculture, while supporting adaptation priorities. This event will discuss key initiatives and operations, in a synthesized way, for delivering climate mitigation action to sub-sectors such as livestock and rice and will showcase relevant Bank projects, while engaging the voices of client countries around key mitigation themes.
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How to adopt an integrated approach to tackling gender equality and climate change? This event will present evidence and examples showing that supporting women’s empowerment and gender equality pays dividends, including for reaching climate goals.
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Michael oversees the policy and impact direction of the Global Citizen movement and has worked on campaigns in North America, Europe, India, South Africa and Australia. He has worked with many artists, heads of government and philanthropists including Rihanna, Beyoncé, Usher, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway, President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa…
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Papa Seck is the Chief Statistician at UN Women. Since joining UN Women in 2009, he has led statistics and data work at UN Women and has also contributed to the Research work of UN Women more broadly, including co-authoring two editions of Progress of the World 's Women as well as various other research products. He leads UN Women’s efforts to monitor the SDGs and for the past year has…
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Dragana assumed the position of Executive Director with strategic, organizational and programme focus at ERA – LGBTI Equal Rights Association for Western Balkans and Turkey as a logical next step after initiating and leading the consortium of 27 LGBTI organizations from the region, with the aim to establish ERA. She has been for 10 years now involved in different types of work and activities…
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On 30 May 2019, UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Ms. Anita Bhatia of India as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women. Ms. Bhatia has had a distinguished career at The World Bank Group, serving in various senior leadership and management positions, both at Headquarters and in the field. She brings extensive…
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