Kigali Convention Center - KG 2 Roundabout, Kigali, Rwanda
Dr. Faith Mwangi-Powell is the CEO of Girls Not Brides, being responsible for leading the implementation of the Girls Not Brides Partnership Strategy, and for ensuring the secretariat is responsive to the broader movement to end child marriage. Before joining Girls Not Brides, Faith served as Global Director for The Girl Generation, an initiative working to galvanize the Africa-led movement to end female genital mutilation/cutting._x000D_
Faith is a public health expert with more than 20 years’ experience in leading, managing and implementing complex public health programmes in Africa. _x000D_
Faith holds a Doctorate in Women’s Economic Development and Fertility Behaviour._x000D_
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02:30 pm EEST | 04:00 pm EEST |
Harnessing the Power of Education to End Harmful Gender Norms and Stereotypes in Schools
Concurrent Room AD 12-1 |
This Concurrent Session will recognize that barriers to achieving gender equality run outside as well as inside education systems and that putting gender at the center Read More SpeakersChristine SteglingDeputy Executive Director, PAK Branch, UNAIDS and UN ASG Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Carine Laure Metiefeng MambouJournalist, Author, AU/CIEFFA Alumni, Founder of CAD AID Foundation MEMA Group (WIHIA News, CAD AID Foundation, CAD Publishing etc.) |
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06:30 pm EEST | 08:00 pm EEST |
Preventing Child, Early and Forced Marriage/Unions in the Face of a Polycrisis, including through Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Side Event Kigali Convention Center - Room AD 10-1 |
This side-event co-hosted by the Government of Canada, UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage, and Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Read More SpeakersMinister Harjit Singh SajjanMinister of International Development Global Affairs Canada, Government of Canada H.R.H. Mabel van OranjeFounder and Global Champion Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage |
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Kigali Convention Center - KG 2 Roundabout, Kigali, Rwanda