NGO Forum at the Regional Conference on Beijing+10

October 6-7, 2004

Work Programme

Wednesday October 6, 2004
08h00-10h00	Registration
10h00-11h00	Opening Session and Dream Weave
	Chair:	Gladys Mutukwa, Chair, Organising Committee
	Speakers:	Assetou Koite, Vice Chair, Organising Committee Josephine Ouedraogo, Director, ACGD, UNECA Gifti Abasyia, Minister of State, Women's Affairs, Office of the Prime Minister, Ethiopia
11h00-11h30	B R E A K
11h30-13h00	Plenary I: Gaps between Commitments to and Implementation of Women's Human Rights
	Chair:	Fatoumata Sire Diakite, CATW-Africa
	Speakers:	Kafui Adjmagbo-Johnson, WiLDAF-West Africa Marren Akatsa-Bukachi, EASSI Marie Louise Dambendzet, RESEFAC Maria de Graca Samo, Rede Mulher
13h00-14h00	L U N C H
14h30-16h00	Workshops:	a. Plenary I continued... (Facilitator: CATW-Africa) b. Young Women Leaders Forum (Facilitators: AmWA, AWID) c. Globalisation and Poverty (Facilitators: EASSI, FDEA, PAWO) d. Armed Conflict and Peace Building (Facilitators: PAWO, WANEP)
16h00-16h30	B R E A K
16h30-18h00	Workshops:	a. Vibrancy of the Women's Movement and Mentoring (Facilitators: NGOCC, ZWRCN) b. Young Women Leaders Forum continued (Facilitators: AmWA, AWID) c. Gender Mainstreaming, Budgeting and Institutional Mechanisms (Facilitators: Forum Mulher, TGNP) d. Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa (Facilitator: WiLDAF-West Africa)
18h00-19h00	Open Space:	Caucuses Organised by Participants Organising Committee Meeting Agency of the Francophonie Partners' Meeting Global Fund for Women Partners Meeting
Thursday October 7, 2004
08h00-09h00	Open Space:	Caucuses Organised by Participants
09h00-10h30	Plenary II: Moving Forward, Backward or on the Same Spot? Strategising as the African Women's and Feminist Movements
	Moderator:	Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, AWDF
	Speakers:	Zainub Abbas, WiLDAF-Sudan Florence Butegwa, UNIFEM-West Africa Aicha Tamboura Diawara, AAWORD L. Muthoni Wanyeki, FEMNET Shamillah Wilson, AWID
10h30-11h00	B R E A K
11h00-12h30	Workshops:	a. Best Practices on Promoting Women's Human Rights and Capacity-Building for Women's Organisations (Facilitators: Equality Now, WiLDAF-West Africa) b. Women and Girls' Reproductive and Sexual Rights (Facilitator: GPI & IPAS) c. Girls, Women and HIV/AIDS (Facilitators: Mouvement des meres, WLSA) d. Impact of Legislation on VAW, including FGM and HTTP (Facilitators: IAC-HTP, NVAW) e. Trafficking in Women and children in Africa: status, challenges and strategies against it (Facilitators: CATW-Africa, RECIF, WOCON)
12h30-14h00	L U N C H
14h00-15h30	Workshops:	a. Girls b. Education (Facilitator: RECIF) c. Women's Decision-Making and Political Participation: challenges and strategies, including Women's Manifestoes (Facilitators: AIFF, AJM and Abantu for Development d. Screening of `Women of Substance' (Facilitator: AWDF) e. Open Space
15h30-16h00	B R E A K
16h00-18h00	Closing Session, Synthesis, Outcomes and Dream Weave
	Chair:	Gladys Mutukwa, Chair, Organising Committee
	Speakers:	Assetou Koite, Vice Chair, Organising Committee To be Confirmed
18h00-19h00	Organising Committee Meeting
19h00-on	R E C E P T I O N!