Khadidiatou Kaya SY

WEST AFRICA ADVOCACY COORDINATOR
EQUIPOP/ALLIANCE DROITS ET SANTÉ [Rights and Health Alliance]

As West Africa Advocacy Coordinator for Equipop, her mission is to develop and implement an advocacy strategy and support to partner CSOs in West Africa at the regional, national and international levels. She therefore supports the mobilization of actors (policy makers and CSOs in West Africa) to create an institutional and political environment pro-human rights, in particular women’s rights, with a strong focus on sexual and reproductive health rights. _x000D_
Led by a feminist approach, she’s been particularly involved in boosting the West African participation to the 2021 Generation Equality Forum._x000D_

Event Schedule

DAY 1
18 July 2023
DAY 2
19 July 2023
Start Time End Time Session Description Action
02:30 pm EEST 04:00 pm EEST Respecting WCA's commitment to the education and health of young people
Concurrent
Room MH 2-1

Based on the case of the West and Central African regional ministerial commitment (23 countries) on comprehensive sexuality education, sexual and reproductive health Read More

Speakers
Xavier Hospital

Regional health education advisor

UNESCO

Khadidiatou Kaya SY

WEST AFRICA ADVOCACY COORDINATOR

EQUIPOP/ALLIANCE DROITS ET SANTÉ [Rights and Health Alliance]

Joyce Ouma

Advocacy and Campaigns officer

Global Network of Young People living with HIV

Sira Sojourner Touré

Youth Focal Point for Partenariat de Ouagadougou [Ouagadougou Partnership] / Family Planning FP 2030

Partenariat de Ouagadougou [Ouagadougou Partnership] / Family Planning 2030

Start Time End Time Session Description Action
02:30 pm EEST 04:00 pm EEST Accountability Moment: Generation Equality Forum (GEF) Action Coalition on Bodily Autonomy and SRHR
Concurrent
Room AD 12-2

The Generation Equality Forum (GEF) Action Coalition on Bodily Autonomy and SRHR is a movement to ensure that women have control of their bodies, to create enabling Read More

Speakers
Eleanor Blomstrom

Senior Manager, Policy and Advocacy

Women Deliver

Pauline Faith Gartor

Youth Activist

Youth Coalition for Sexual Reproductive Health Rights/ Girls Health Alliance

Khadidiatou Kaya SY

WEST AFRICA ADVOCACY COORDINATOR

EQUIPOP/ALLIANCE DROITS ET SANTÉ [Rights and Health Alliance]

Shakira Choonara

Action Coalition Thematic Lead on Bodily Autonomy & SRHR

UN Women

Leyla Sharafi

Gender Equality Advisor

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Catalina Martínez

Senior Regional Director for Latin America & the Caribbean

Center for Reproductive Rights

Sofia Minieri

Legal Advisor

Women Enabled International

Delphine O

Ambassador and Secretary General for the Generation Equality Forum

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Speakers

Magdalene Dorto

Not applicable Not applicable

Deborah Nyirenda

Not applicable Not applicable

Yashmin Fernandes

Director Women's Digital Financial Inclusion Hub, Women's World Banking

Stella Anyangwe

End Polo Now Coordinator Rotary International

Blandine Umuziranenge

Founder and CEO Kosmotivr

Taryn Russell

Deputy Executive Director Results Canada

Djeinaba Kane

Advocacy & Partnership Lead AfricaNenda

Rafiat Akinokun

Youth Advorate and cub's health nurse

Melania Chiponda

Gender and Climate Advisor The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)

Aries Setiadi

Managing Director Fintech Association Indonesia

Claude Mambo Muvunyi

Director General Rwanda Biomedical Center

Hanna Lemma

Co-founder & Contributor Addis Powerhouse

Kathryn Toure

Regional Director, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office IDRC

Dr. Lisa Avery

Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba; Director Africa Initiatives

Carmen Correa

CEO Pro Mujer

Tawakkol Karman

Nobel Peace Price Laureate Tawakkol Karman Foundation

Anis Farid

Research Project Manager Women's Aid Organisation

Patricia Elias

Every Woman International Lawyer; Chief, Global Diplomatic Campaign

Lipi Rahman

Executive Director, Badabon Sangho Every Woman Indrani Fellow

Kigali Convention Center - KG 2 Roundabout, Kigali, Rwanda