Aatika Patel

Women Deliver Youth Leader Alumni (Fiji)

Oceanic Pacific Regional Committee

Aatika is an environmentalist and social justice activist who focuses on exploring the intersectionality between creativity, the Pacific experience with climate change, and the environmental crisis. Her work emphasizes youth and women’s empowerment through a gender lens, both regionally and globally. Aatika has gained extensive experience in public advocacy and strategic communications, having worked for organizations such as Habitat for Humanity Fiji and the United Nations. As a National Gender Youth Activist from Fiji with UN Women, Aatika has been instrumental in creating the Accountability Framework Process. She has also been a Youth Leader for Women Deliver since 2018.

Event Schedule

DAY 1

18 July 2023

Start Time	End Time	Session	Description	Action
04:30 pm EEST	06:00 pm EEST	Regional Solidarity and Intersectional Gender Justice: Lessons from the Oceanic-Pacific Regional Convening Concurrent Room MH 2-2	Drawing on outcomes from the first-ever Women Deliver Oceanic-Pacific Regional Convening, this session showcases our journey to and the power of regional feminist Read More Drawing on outcomes from the first-ever Women Deliver Oceanic-Pacific Regional Convening, this session showcases our journey to and the power of regional feminist solidarity in tackling complex gender equality issues. What binds us together? What challenges us? How do we share power? By bringing the knowledge and lived experience of gender equality actors from diverse sectors to the fore, we take charge of our narrative as global feminist leaders in intersectional gender justice, particularly on Indigenous solidarity, climate action, decolonisation, resource mobilisation and grassroots to global movement building. We know the problems and we have solutions – are you ready to hear us? Session format: Thought Leadership, Storytelling and Whole System in a Room Organized by Oceanic Pacific Regional Committee Read Less Speakers Ofa Guttenbeil-Likiliki - - The Hon. Natalie Hutchins, MP Minister for Women Victorian Government, Australia Sonia Rastogi Technical Specialist UN Women Multi-Country Office Sally Hasler Director Office for Women, State Government of Victoria Lasarusa (Kirah) Seru Program Assistant Rainbow Pride Doris Tulifau Founder and Director Brown Girl Woke Bettina Baldeschi CEO International Women’s Development Agency Aatika Patel Women Deliver Youth Leader Alumni (Fiji) Oceanic Pacific Regional Committee Mereseini Rakuita Principal Strategic Lead (SPC) and Governing Board Chairperson (FP2030) Pacific Community (SPC) Yasmine Bjornum Executive Director and Founder Sista Noelene Nabulivou Executive Director Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) for Equality Nalini Singh Executive Director Fiji Women’s Rights Movement