2021 Agenda

• Welcome and Overview: Kristen Dailey, Executive Director, Global Washington

• Scheaffer Okore, Goalkeeper Advisory Board, Gates Foundation, and Director of Policy and Advocacy, Women Political Leaders (WPL)

• Breakout #1: SDG 16 Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
• Breakout #2: SDG 3 Good Health and Well-Being
• Breakout #3: SDG 13 Climate Action

SDG 16 focuses on “Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions”, but what are “Strong Institutions”? What are the qualities that make some governments stronger, better performing, and more responsive to their citizens’ well-being? How do those inside and outside of government measure success? And what is the role of civil society to ensure that strong institutions actually result in better lives for the people institutions should serve? Hear from three accomplished women: one who is helping define and measure what it means to be a strong institution, another who has governed a nation, and finally one who is supporting civil society organizations around the world to create more peaceful and just societies.

Panelists

• Elizabeth Andersen, Executive Director, World Justice Project
• Laura Chinchilla, Former President of Costa Rica
• Nancy Lindborg, President & CEO, Packard Foundation
• Moderator: Leslie Tsai, Director of Social Investment, Chandler Foundation

Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. Currently, the world is facing a global health crisis unlike any other — COVID-19 is spreading human suffering, destabilizing the global economy, and upending the lives of billions of people around the globe. The panelists in this session will provide their unique perspectives on the pandemic’s impact on health systems and global health supply chains, developing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, and more. We will discuss how the pandemic is much more than a health crisis. It requires a whole-of-government and whole-of-society response – one that GlobalWA organizations are working together to achieve.

Panelists

• Shivanshi Kapoor, Senior Program Officer, Strategy, PATH South Asia Hub
• Simba Nyanyiwa, Senior Manager for Supply Chains, VillageReach
• Lakshmi Sethuraman, Principal, Sattva
• Moderator: KJ Zunigha, Senior Consultant, Linksbridge SPC

When U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry addressed this year’s annual ABA Meeting, he remarked:  “you are all climate lawyers now.” The same could be said for the international development field:  we are all climate development practitioners now. This panel explores the call to action of SDG 13, and the many areas where our organizations have committed missions and resources to combat climate change and its impacts. The panel will discuss overall trends to tackle the climate imperative in development work, as well as several specific efforts: addressing deforestation through protection of Indigenous community tenure rights, climate smart agriculture initiatives, and government commitments to safeguard coastal mangroves areas.

Panelists

• Kartick Kumar, Senior Portfolio Manager, King Philanthropies
• Rachel McMonagle, Climate Change and Land Tenure Specialist, Landesa
• Moderator: Khalil Shahyd, Managing Director, Environment and Equity Strategies, Environment, Equity, and Justice Center, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

• Rose Berg, Director of Advocacy and Communications, Chandler Foundation, in memoriam
  
• Jerilyn Brusseau, Founder, PeaceTrees Vietnam

• Ruth Sincinele Sakhile Bechtel, Vice President of Programs, VillageReach
• Rowlands Kaotcha, Global Vice President, The Hunger Project
• Rose Tchwenko, Ghana Country Director, CARE
• Moderator: Akhtar Badshah, Distinguished Practitioner & Senior Lecturer, University of Washington

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic go far beyond a public health crisis. Recent research by Mercy Corps reveals how COVID-19 and response measures are exacerbating the underlying drivers of conflict and fraying state-society relations. From an uptick in criminal and gender-based violence, to expanded recruitment by armed opposition groups, this panel will discuss how these trends could spark new conflicts or worsen existing ones if left unchecked, the challenges this poses for humanitarian actors, and the steps we must take now to address the warning signs.

Speakers

• Dina Esposito, Interim Vice President, Policy, Research and Technical Leadership, Mercy Corps
• Mayesha Alam, Senior Adviser, Policy & Research, Mercy Corps
• Jennifer Daum, Director of Programs, Colombia, Mercy Corps
• Miji Park, Country Director, Mercy Corps, Liberia

• Keynote: Michele Sumilas, Assistant to the Administrator, USAID
• Remarks: Kristen Dailey, Executive Director, Global Washington

• Kristen Dailey, Executive Director, Global Washington

• Ankur Vora, Chief Strategy Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• In conversation with Sara Rogge, Chief of Staff, Global Policy & Advocacy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• Bettina Stix, Director, Right Now Needs and Disaster Relief, Amazon
• Jane Meseck, Former Senior Director of Global Programs, Microsoft Philanthropies

• Tim Prewitt, President & CEO, The Hunger Project
• Debadutta Dash, Secretary, Sukarya, USA
• Karl Weyrauch, President, Pygmy Survival Alliance
• Julia Guerette, Data Analytics Manager, VillageReach

• Breakout #1: Gender Equity: SDGs 5 and 10
• Breakout #2: Natural Capital & Livelihoods: SDGs 7, 12, 14, and 15
• Breakout #3: Inclusive Growth & Innovation: SDGs 1, 8, 9, and 11
• Breakout #4: Child Welfare: SDGs 4, 2, and 6

Achieving gender equality is one of the most important humanitarian issues of our time. In this special session you will hear from a panel of women’s rights experts about the barriers to equity for women that are often hidden, overlooked and misunderstood. Learn how menstrual health, childhood marriage, gender-based violence, female genital mutilation, WASH, and policy/legal rights have a fundamental impact on the opportunity, dignity, and equality for women and girls around the world.

Panelists

• Ina Jurga, International Coordinator, Menstrual Hygiene Day, WASH United
• Nur Kara, Attorney, DLA Piper LLP and New Perimeter
• Severina Lemachokoti, Board Member, Samburu Women Trust
• Celeste Mergens, CEO & Founder, Days for Girls
• Moderator: Katrina Kwan, Senior Project Manager, Dalberg Advisors

Coming out of nearly two years of tremendous disruptions following a global pandemic in addition to the increasing severity of the impacts of climate change, communities and industries that rely on natural resources have experienced new levels of challenges. We have seen global supply chains struggle, putting already vulnerable communities further at risk, and examples of local and diversified supply chains flourishing. This session will explore how we can leverage this opportunity to rethink the relationship between our natural resources and community livelihoods and rebuild the blue and green economies with a focus on regeneration. With our panel of speakers we will examine the opportunities for systems level transformation, scalable innovative solutions and the enabling conditions needed in order to implement them at a community level. Participants will come away thinking about a path forward in moving towards a more regenerative future that promotes resilient and equitable livelihoods.

Panelists

• Dov Rosenmann, Head of Country, Earthworm Foundation Brazil
• Nienke Stam, Program Director Landscape Finance, IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative
• Diego Undurraga, Chile Director, Future of Fish
• Moderator: Ethan Miller, Senior Analyst, Resonance

When Upaya Social Ventures, an organization focused on livelihoods for people living in extreme poverty, surveyed their jobholders during the Covid-19 pandemic, they discovered a concerning issue: despite continued employment and income, 77% of the poor households we surveyed in India reported having no savings at all. Why, despite them having access to dignified jobs and regular wages were they unable to build such a cushion? Having adequate savings is absolutely critical for poor households to survive a crisis. Around the world the pandemic has exposed that too few people have saved up enough to weather the storm. This is especially pronounced among the extreme poor. Now as we recover and rebuild, it is imperative that the jobs of tomorrow help those living in poverty save and build a safety net for future crises. While historical data shows weak correlations between certain variables (such as amount of income, access to savings accounts, and job tenure) and a person’s ability to save, we need better information around what factors correlate to encourage and support greater generation of savings.

Panelists

• Sybil Chidiac, Senior Program Officer, Gender Equality, Gates Foundation
• Alberto Solano, President & Executive Director, Agros
• Moderator: Kate Cochran, CEO, Upaya

Going on 21 months into the Covid-19 pandemic, let’s consider what was lost, what was gained, and what we should retain related to the well-being of children around the globe. Panelists will explore the unanticipated outcomes of prolonged school closures on students and communities, as well as the opportunities arising amongst local families, teachers, and other champions. Furthermore, the pandemic has shown us the importance of capacity building at the grassroots level for navigating present and future crises.

Panelists

• Jane Beck, Executive Director, Project GRAD, Kenai Peninsula
• Eskinder Enreas, WASH Promotions Manager, Splash International
• Malahat Mazaher, Executive Director, Sahar Education
• Moderator: Kimani Nyambura, Alliance for Children Everywhere

• Nikolaj Gilbert, CEO, PATH
• Janti Soeripto, President & CEO, Save the Children
• Atul Tandon, CEO, Opportunity International
• Moderator: Akhtar Badshah, Distinguished Practitioner & Senior Lecturer, University of Washington

• Igor Belokrinitsky, Principal, Strategy& United States, PwC

In this session, we will attempt to demystify the Indian corporate and domestic foundation funding landscape and share insights from this ecosystem. Please feel free to share any questions beforehand.
Discussion Lead: Parvathy Ramanathan, Regional Head – Americas, Sattva Consulting

• Najla Ayoubi, Lawyer and Former Judge from Afghanistan, Every Woman Treaty
• Abby Maxman, President & CEO, Oxfam America
• Marina Pisklakova-Parker, Founder and Chair of the Board, Center for the Prevention of Violence
• Moderator: Jane Barry, Executive Director, Linksbridge Foundation

• Latanya Mapp Frett, President & CEO, Global Fund for Women

• Kristen Dailey, Executive Director, Global Washington