UfM High Level Conference on Women for the Mediterranean 2022

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High Level Conference on Women for the Mediterranean 2022

The 2022 High-Level Conference on Women for the Mediterranean organised by the Union for the Mediterranean took place on the 26th and the 27th of October, in Madrid. During the High-Level Conference, Ministers from the Union for the Mediterranean(UfM) Members States and the UfM-Co-presidencies (EU and Jordan) were invited as well as representatives of national, regional and international stakeholders from public and private sectors including financial institutions and international donors. The recommendations gathered from the Civil Society organizations were taken on board during the discussions.

The Conference was preceded, on the 26^th of October 2022 by the 5^th (UfM) Ministerial Conference on Strengthening the Role of Women in Society, gathering Ministers of the 42 Member States of the UfM responsible for women affairs and gender equality.

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The Conference provided an opportunity for a further exchange of experiences, good practices and lessons learned on women empowerment and women’s rights in a regional-crisis (health, water, food and energy security) context. These discussions were also contributing to shape the Road Map for the Ministerial implementation and the regional agenda for the years to come, particularly towards an effective and inclusive gender equality policy, based on a gender transformative approach and the mobilisation of public and private actors in the region. The high-level speaker’s contribution to the discussions, took place across the two days are important in stepping up cooperation, focusing on implementation, concrete delivery, and monitoring of impact,while enhancing the visibility of past, on-going and future initiatives.

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The 2022 High-Level Conference on Women for the Mediterranean is taking place in on 26th andthe 27th of October, in Hotel Riu Plaza, Madrid.

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26 October 2022, 15h - 18h30, Madrid
27 October 2022, 9h - 14h, Madrid
27 October 2022, 15h – 17h30, Madrid

15:00 – 15:40 Official opening

Moderator: Sana Afouaiz, Founder and CEO, Womenpreneur Initiative

Irene Montero, Minister of Equality, Spain
Helena Dalli, European Commissioner for Gender Equality
Nasser Kamel Secretary General of the UfM
Svenja Schulze, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany (video message)
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO) (video message)

15:40 – 16:30 Round-table: Women Economic Empowerment
Dr. Maya Morsi, President of the National Council for Women, Egypt
Natalia Efremova, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Policy, Bulgaria
Dr. Jordi Curell, Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL)
Fatou Haidara , Managing Director, Directorate of Global Partnerships and External Relations , UNIDO

16:30 – 17:00 Round-table: Women in Leadership
Claudine Aoun, President of National Commission for Lebanese Women
Birgit Loeser, Co-Chair of the UfM Senior Officials Meeting – EU External Action Service (EEAS)
Amb. María Jesús Conde Zabala, Special Envoy on Foreign Feminist Policy, Spain

17:00- 17:45. Round-table: Gender Equality and Climate Change
Placido Plaza, Secretary General CIHEAM
Carlos Conde, Head of Middle East & Africa Division, OECD
Senén Florensa Palau Executive President IEMed
Arianna Censi, Deputy Mayor for Mobilty of Milan, Member of ARLEM

17:45- 18:30. Round-table: Violence Against Women and Girls
Aawatif Hayar Minister of Solidarity, Social Integration and Family , Morocco
Amal Nashwan, Minister of Women’s Affairs, Palestine
Ángela Rodriguez, Secretary of State for Equality and against Gender Violence, Spain
Biljana PEJOVIĆ, Head of Department for Gender Equality, Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, Montenegro

9:00-11:50 I. Women Economic Empowerment in the Regional Crisis context

Panel 1: Inclusive Labour market for a sustainable and integrated economic system 9:00-10:00

Moderator: Anna Dorangricchia, Project Manager Gender Equality, Social and Civil Affairs Division, UfM

Outi Kärkkäinen, Focal point for Gender, ETF
Emmanuelle Roure, Team Leader for Neighbourhood, International Affairs Unit, DG EMPL
Tair Ifergan, Director General of Labor, Israel
María Antonia Morillas, Director of the Spanish Institute of Women, Spain
Dina El Serafy, International Cooperation Specialist, National Council for Women, Egypt (online)
Patricia Sanz, Vice-Chair for Equality, Human Resources, Institutional Culture, and Digital Inclusion, ONCE Social Group, Spain

Panel 2: Enabling conditions for a successful female entrepreneurship 10:00-10:50

Moderator: Sana Afouaiz, Founder and CEO, Womenpreneur Initiative

Neila Amara, International Project Management Expert UNIDO
Jihen Boutiba , Secretary General BusinessMed
Zohra Slim, Co-founder and Chief Web Officer, InstaDeep (Tunisia)
Anne-France Wittmann, Policy Officer, DG NEAR

Panel 3: Women in leadership and decision-making in public and private sector 10:50-11:50

Moderator: Tala Khrais, Country Director MENA Women’s Leadership Program, Forum of Federations- Jordan

Joana Lima, President of the Women’s Forum of the PAM
Saida Neghza, Director Confédération Nationale d’Entreprises, Algerie
Amneh I. Khasawneh, Princess Basma Center for Jordanian Women’s Studies at Yarmouk University
Annette Funk, Head of Project (WoMENA) Gender Responsive and Inclusive Politics and Economics in the MENA Region, (GIZ, Germany)

11:50-12:15 Coffee/ networking break

12:15 – 14:00 II. Gender-just response to the climate crisis

Panel 1: Gender Equality and Climate Change: women as agents for change and stakeholders instead of vulnerable groups 12:15-13:00

Moderator: Africa G. Zanella, Gender Senior International Consultant, Lifewatch Eric and Centre for Sustainability and Gender Economics, (CSGE-Spain/Australia)

Saira Ahmed, Programme Management Officer, UNDRR (online)
Blanca Moreno-Dodson, Director of the Center for Mediterranean Integration, UNOPS
Yasmine Seghirate, Policy and Communication Officer, CIHEAM,
Maggie Refaat, Regional Gender Specialist, FAO

Panel 2: Gender-responsive finance at scale for climate and environment action 13:00-14:00

Moderator: Anna Dorangricchia, Project Manager Gender Equality, Social and Civil Affairs Division, UfM

Anna Rosendahl Head of Unit for Middle East and North Africa Sida (Sweden)
Sarine Karajerjian, Arab-Reform Initiative (Lebanon)
Africa G. Zanella, CSGE and CIF Observer and Gender Focal Point for Climate Investment Fund
Bettina Schreck, Rotational gender officer at the Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Unit (COR/GEW), UNIDO
Majd Mashharawi, Founder & CEO at SunBox, (Palestine)

15:00 – 16:30 III. Violence Against Women and Girls

Panel 1: The multidimensional impacts of crises leading to an increase of Violence against women and how to prevent it 15:00-15:45

Moderator: Sana Afouaiz, Founder and CEO, Womenpreneur Initiative

Victoria Rosell Aguilar, Delegada del Gobierno contra la Violencia de Género, Spain
Cristina Fabre, Team Leader Gender-Based Violence (EIGE)
Stéfania Chiru, Deputy head of unit for international affairs, Ministry of Gender Equality (France)
Manal Benkirane, Programme Specialist for EVAW, UN WOMEN Regional Office for Arab States

Panel 2: Strengthening the collaboration between public/legal systems and the CSOs to reinforce legal, economic and social protection and support for victims of domestic violence and insure adequate financial and other forms of support for prevention and combatting VAWG 15:45-16:30

Moderator: Sana Afouaiz, Founder and CEO, Womenpreneur Initiative

Gülser USTAOĞLU, General Director on the Status of Women, Ministry of Family and Social Services, Republic of Türkiye
Lucie Déchifre, Programmes Manager, EuroMed Feminist Initiative, Jordan
Cristiana Carletti, UfM Italian Gender Focal Point, Italy

16:30– 17:30 IV. Media and Gender Equality

Moderator: Carolina Pecharromàn, Editor of “Igualdad” – RTVE

Ihssane Benbel Journalist/anchor of radio 2M for the weekly program “Gender and Diversity Debate”, (Morocco)
Valbona Sulçe, Researcher and journalist from Tirana, Albanian Woman in Audiovisual Albania, (Albania)
Farah Ahmad, Senior Journalist Al-Ghad Daily Newspaper, Jordan (online)
Maria-Àngels Roque, Director of the culture, gender and civil society department, IEMed

17:15 – 17:30 Closing remarks
Amb. John Paul Grech, Deputy Secretary General, Social and Civil Affairs Division, UfM

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