Henaka Rallage Chiranthi Thavisha Senanayake

Founder

Hype Sri Lanka

Chiranthi Senanayake is a development justice advocate and researcher passionate about Alternative Legal and Development Thinking, and Stakeholder Empowerment Incubation. Her present work promotes stakeholder led dialogue and action on sufficiency-based, sustainability oriented, democracy driven and endogenous development systems in the Global South. Expanding upon eleven years of community service with South Asian development sector stakeholders, she founded Hype Sri Lanka: the region’s first and only youth empowerment incubator which has built the capacities of 82 youth organisations, worked with 30 non state organisations and empowered approximately 1600 young people from Sri Lanka.

Event Schedule

DAY 1

20 July 2023

Start Time	End Time	Session	Description	Action
03:00 pm EEST	04:00 pm EEST	A Space for Us: The WD2023 Closing Celebration Special Event KCC Auditorium	Join Women Deliver and Conference delegates as we celebrate our movement and advocates from around the world, working towards gender equality. As we reflect on a week Read More Join Women Deliver and Conference delegates as we celebrate our movement and advocates from around the world, working towards gender equality. As we reflect on a week spent in solidarity, we will recap highlights from the Conference, announce the winners of the “Best of the Fest” from the Arts & Film Festival, and celebrate with art and music. Eight feminist artists based in Rwanda came together in order to collectively build a performance for Women Deliver, portraying their feminist demands on collectivity, spaces and solidarity. Coordinated by Elle Kwa Mziki, Noemi Grütter and Linda Kirezi, a platform for female artists in Rwanda, striving for more equality. We will end with a performance by MILCK joined by a choir from the Nyundo School of Music in Kigali. Read Less Speakers Henaka Rallage Chiranthi Thavisha Senanayake Founder Hype Sri Lanka Tulika Srivastava Board Member Women Deliver Sandra Macias del Villar Director, Feminist Crisis Response Feminist Humanitarian Network Noemi Grütter Co-Founder Elle Kwa Mziki Satish Kumar Karn Grants Coordinator Plan International Nepal Dr. Maliha Khan President and CEO Women Deliver Jeannette Bayisenge Minister of Gender and Family Promotion Rwanda