Break-out sessions

Day 1 | Monday 22 October

Breakout session 1: Young people and Comprehensive Sexuality Education

Co-chairs: Hon. Nicolette Henry, Minister for Education, Guyana, and H.E. William Kwasi Sabi, Deputy Minister for Monitoring and Evaluation, Ghana

Interactive: SexEd crash course by Frederique Chabot and Britt Neron, Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights

Resource person: Aminata Bintu Wurie, Executive Coordinator, Youth Coalition for SRR

Rapporteur: Kamma Blair, Programme Specialist APRO, UNFPA
Breakout session 2: Funding SRHR in an SDG world

Co-chairs: Hon. Isabelle Diks, MP, The Netherlands and H.E. Hazel Brandy-Williams, MP, Minister of Health, St Kitts & Nevis

Interactive: app quiz on funding needs

Resource persons: Jennifer Daves, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Gifty Addico, Chief, Commodity Security Branch, UNFPA Arthur Erken, Director, Division for Communications and Strategic Partnerships, UNFPA

Rapporteur: Pernille Fenger, Chief, Copenhagen Liaison Office, UNFPA
Breakout session 3: Countering resistance to SRHR

Co-chairs: Hon. Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, MP, Poland and Hon. Dr Sahar Fahed Al Qawasmeh, MP, Palestine

Resource persons: Neil Datta, Secretary, European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF) Alison Drayton, Director of Caribbean Sub-Regional Office, LACRO, UNFPA Sen. Catherine Noone, Ireland

Rapporteur: Jennie Greaney, Communications Specialist, Commodity Security Branch, UNFPA
Breakout session 4: Inequalities

Co-chairs: Dan Vandal, MP, Parliamentary Secretary to Minister Jane Philpott of Indigenous Services, Canada and Hon. Teddy Baguilat, MP, The Philippines

Interactive: power walk

Resource persons: Sandeep Prasad, Executive Director, ACSRR Dr Holly Graham, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan

Rapporteur: Marta Diavolova, Partnership Adviser, EECARO, UNFPA

Day 2 | Tuesday 23 October

Breakout session 5: Contraception a human right & critical tool for women’s empowerment

Co-chairs: Pam Damoff, MP, Canada and Hon. Manavi Isabelle Djigbodi Ameganvi, MP, Togo

Interactive: Demo on contraception (UNFPA)

Resource person: Dr Jennifer Blake, Canadian Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Gifty Addico, Chief, Commodity Security Branch, UNFPA

Rapporteur: Dr. Kanyanta Sunkutu, Technical Specialist, ESARO, UNFPA
Breakout session 6: Maternal Health – No woman should die giving birth

Co-chairs: Hon. Karen Vecchio, MP, Canada and Hon. Delia Bac, MP, Guatemala

Interactive: Demo of the LAERDAL models

Anna af Ugglas, Programme and Implementation Manager, Laerdal

Resource person: Anneka Knutsson, Chief of Sexual and Reproductive Health Branch, UNFPA; Dr Abram Agossou, Director of mother and child health, Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Togo

Rapporteur: Kamma Blair, Programme Specialist APROPA
Breakout session 7: Human rights and security for all – Ending harmful practices and gender-based violence

Co-chairs: Hon. Aida Ismailova, MP, Kyrgyzstan and Hon. Dr. Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, Canada

Interactive : Movie trailer “In the name of your daughter”

Resource person: Julitta Onabanjo, Regional Director ESARO, UNFPA
Robhi Samwelly, FGM survivor and Executive Director, Hope for Women and Girls, Tanzania

Rapporteur: Marta Diavolova, Partnership Adviser, EECARO, UNFPA