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Where are the women?

05/07/2021

Register for the High-Level Political Forum side event, Where are the Women? Launch of global Gender Equality in Public Administration report (GEPA).

It will take place on Thursday 8 July from 7:30 to 9:00 am (New York) via Zoom. 

Please register for the event in advance here: bit.ly/GEPAreport

Agenda: 

Opening remarks
Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation, Government of Iceland
Achim Steiner, Administrator, UNDP Video message
Usha Rao-Monari, Under Secretary-General and Associate Administrator, UNDP
Ann Cudd, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh


Presentation of new GEPA report data
Raquel Lagunas, Head of Gender, UNDP
Dr. Muge Finkel, Co-director, Gender Inequality Research Lab (GIRL), University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Melanie Hughes, Co-director, Gender Inequality Research Lab (GIRL), University of Pittsburgh


Panel and Q&A
Aminath Shauna, Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Technology, Republic of the Maldives
Yasna Provoste Campillay, President of the Senate, Republic of Chile
Memory Kachambwa, Director, FEMNET
Sandra Pepera, Director for Gender, Women and Democracy, National Democratic Institute


Summary remarks
Sarah Lister, Head of Governance, UNDP


Moderator
Anne Marie M. Goetz, Clinical Professor, Center for Global Affairs, New York University