Date: 12-09-2023Time: 13.00 - 14.00 hrsLocation: online (link below) WO=MEN and Atria, in collaboration with Soroptimist International, are organising a series of knowledge sessions in preparation for the 68th United Nations (UN) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). We started this in June, and are organising a second round with four follow-up knowledge sessions with new speakers and topics in September 2023.
The next CSW will not take place until March 2024. So why are we organising these preparatory sessions already? EU member states will start negotiating the EU position for the next CSW as early as October 2023. In recent years, this EU position proved increasingly important and leading for the commitment of the EU delegation during the CSW negotiations. It is therefore important for civil society in the Netherlands to start preparing our priorities and recommendations towards the Dutch (and EU) delegation in good time.
CSW68 KNOWLEDGE SESSION 6: SDG1 & financial inclusion
Tuesday 12 September
Interpreter: available (English/Dutch)
Registration: not required
Programme:
- Presentation by Marjolijn van Gerven on SDG1 ('halve poverty') and gender in the Netherlands.
Marjolijn van Gerven is the Dutch alliance coordinator SDG1 and National Programme Manager Focus Plan at Stichting Leger des Heils. As SDG1 coordinator, Marjolijn has been working since 2018 to achieve the SDG1 goal of "halving poverty in the Netherlands" as part of the UN agenda. She explains from her experience what steps the Netherlands has taken in this regard in recent years and what steps are needed in the remaining time until 2030.
- Presentation by Erlijn Sie on financial inclusion and the path to a just and inclusive economy.
Erlijn Sie has 15 years of experience at multinational companies and as many years of experience in leading and growing social enterprises. She co-founded Microcredit for Mothers and Credit for Communities and was Managing Director of Banking with the Poor Network and HandsOn Microfinance. She currently works at Ashoka, an international network of social entrepreneurs. Erlin has published several books on financial inclusion and a more equitable, inclusive economy.
- Q&A and discussion on possible CSW priorities and recommendations
This series of knowledge sessions is a follow-up to the sessions that took place before the summer. Anyone may attend, with or without participation in previous sessions and with or without CSW experience. The sessions are informal and interactive in nature.
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