Rania Dagash-Kamara

Deputy Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa

UNICEF

Rania Dagash-Kamara is the UNICEF Deputy Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa. Ms. Dagash-Kamara served as Chief of Policy and Best Practices in the Department of Peace Operations, and as Chief of Staff for the UN Office to the AU and Office of the Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan. Rania brings more than 23 years of experience in humanitarian emergencies and peace operations spanning Africa, Asia, the Middle East and UN Headquarters. Ms. Dagash-Kamara holds a Masters degree in Vernacular Architecture from Oxford Brookes University and a Bachelors degree in Architecture from the University of Khartoum, Sudan.

Event Schedule

DAY 1

18 July 2023

DAY 2

19 July 2023

Start Time	End Time	Session	Description	Action
10:30 am EEST	12:00 pm EEST	The Festival of Dreams Opening Ceremony Youth Zone Youth Zone, KCC Terrace	Join us for a morning of dreaming, disrupting, and decolonizing, young people’s involvement in changing the world. Through a powerful panel of global leaders sharing Read More Join us for a morning of dreaming, disrupting, and decolonizing, young people’s involvement in changing the world. Through a powerful panel of global leaders sharing their stories on their sleeves, we will come together to envision how stakeholders can work to transform young people’s voices in traditionally exclusive spaces, officially opening The Festival of Dreams. Read Less Speakers Rania Dagash-Kamara Deputy Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa UNICEF Daren Paul Katigbak Young Leader Women Deliver Julia Ehrt Executive Director ILGA World Monica Geingos First Lady of the Republic of Namibia and President of the Organization of African First Ladies (OAFLAD) Helen Clark Former Prime Minister New Zealand

Start Time	End Time	Session	Description	Action
02:30 pm EEST	04:00 pm EEST	Taking Action to Close the Gender Nutrition Gap Concurrent Room MH 1-1	Nutrition is a feminist issue. Women and girls bear the brunt of global malnutrition. Gender inequalities underlie why women and girls experience inadequate access to Read More Nutrition is a feminist issue. Women and girls bear the brunt of global malnutrition. Gender inequalities underlie why women and girls experience inadequate access to nutritious diets, nutrition services and poor practices. This session calls for urgent collective action to close the gender nutrition gap. It will showcase the latest evidence on women’s and girls’ nutrition from UNICEF’s flagship report, Undernourished and Overlooked: A Global Nutrition Crisis in Adolescent Girls and Women, and experiences from inspiring leaders and advocates, and launch a global co-created Action Agenda and campaign that calls for bold gender transformative actions to improve women’s and girls’ nutrition. Session format: Thought Leadership Organized by FHI 360, UNICEF, African Leaders for Nutrition, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, EngenderHealth, Micronutrient Forum, Nigeria Health Watch, Youth Advocate Read Less Speakers Rania Dagash-Kamara Deputy Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa UNICEF Saskia Osendarp Executive Director Micronutrient Forum Pauline Theresa Mapfumo Youth Advocate European Union Delegation (team Zimbabwe) Youth Sounding Board. Vivianne Ihekweazu Managing Director Nigeria Health Watch Ajay Khera Country Representative, India EngenderHealth Anita Zaidi President Gender Equality Division The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation