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“Youth Engagement in the Transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals: What will it take?” -part 2
Session IV “Gender Equality and Youth: 20 years since the Beijing Platform for Action and onwards to a Post-2015 Development Framework”
Session III “Youth on the rise: Youth participation in Africa”
Chair
Mohamed Khaled Khiari (Tunisia), Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council
Moderator
Chernor Bah, Co-Founder, A World at School, and Founding Chair, Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) Youth Advocacy Group
Speakers
Ibrahim Ceesay, Chair, African Youth Alliance on Post 2015 and Reference Group Member of Action/2015 Global Campaign
Rachel Nyaradzo Adams, Associate Director for Africa, Office of International Affairs at Yale University
Yvonne Akoth, Post-2015 Ambassador of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS)
Eric Niragira, Founder and Executive Director, CEDAC
Interactive discussion
Session IV “Gender Equality and Youth: 20 years since the Beijing Platform for Action and onwards to a Post-2015 Development Framework”
Chair
María Emma Mejía Vélez (Colombia), Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council
Moderator
Femi Oke, Journalist, Al Jazeera
Speakers
Vivian Onano, Education Spokesperson for Moremi Africa and Global Youth Ambassador for “A World at School
Mirna Ines Fernández, Professor, EMI University and Member, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS)
Melissa Ruvimbo Kubvoruno, Member, Rozario Memorial Trust and the World Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA)
Dakshitha Wickremarathne, Social worker and Member of the Global Civil Society Advisory Group (GCSAG)
Interactive discussion