Plan India and Ministry of Women and Child Development present the National Conference 9.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. 11.15 a.m. 11.30 a.m. - 1.15 p.m. November 1-3, 2017 India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Day 1: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 Inaugural Session (Plenary 1) Leave No Girl Behind Welcome Address: One year on - From Children In Difficult Circumstances to Leaving No Girl Behind Bhagyashri Dengle, Executive Director, Plan India Inaugural Address - Plan India Governing Board Rathi Vinay Jha, person, Plan India Governing Board Video message from Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, CEO, Plan International Keynote Address: Plan International Tessie San Martin, President and CEO, Plan International USA Keynote Address: Government Aastha Saxena Khatwani, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India Elisa Paloschi, President, Eyefull Inc., Director - Driving With Selvi Keynote Address: Chief Guest Shabana Azmi, Celebrated actress, Social activist Guests Release: (Revised)Plan India Country Strategic Plan IV: 10 Million Reasons Media Interaction Parallel Session 1 Solutions Towards Inclusion, Access and Opportunities for Girls Theme 1: Girls in disturbed areas Ramya Subrahmanian Executive Director, Know Violence in Childhood Theme 2: Girls in care and protection homes (Casuarina Hall) Amodh Kanth, Prayas JAC Society - Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights Upasana Mahanta, Director, Centre for Women and Law, Jindal Global University Roshmi Goswami, Founder, North East Network Seema Kakran, Deputy Director, Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace Ranveer Pukhan, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Society for Promotion of Youth and Masses Anant Asthana, Senior Lawyer Leena Prasad, Senior Consultant - Advocacy, Udayan Care
1.15 pm - 2.00 pm 2.00 p.m. - 3.45 p.m. Rouf M Malik, Director, Koshish, Srinagar Emarine Kharbhih, Programme Officer, Impulse NGO Network Lunch Parallel Session 2 Theme 3: Girls in natural disasters and climate change (Casuarina Hall) Roger Yates, Director, Disaster Risk Management, Plan International Soumya Sarkar, Senior Journalist, The Third Pole.net/India Climate Dialogue.net Aditi Kapoor, Senior Officer - Climate Change, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Sudeshna Chatterjee, CEO, Action For Children s Environments Bharti Sharma, Child protection expert Neha Dixit, Independent Journalist, Author Tushar Anchal, Technical Advisor - Child Protection, Plan India Theme 4: Girls and human trafficking Rasa Sekulovic, Regional Head of Child Protection, Plan International Achal Bhagat, Director, Saarthak Sanjay Awasthi, Chief Functionary, Bharatiya Gramotthan Seva Vikas Sansthan K.K.Mukherjee, Director and Founder, Gram Niyojan Kendra Ravi Kant, President, Shakti Vahini 3.45 p.m. - 4.10 pm 4.10 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Dipali Sharma, Director, Organizational Effectiveness, ActionAid Tea Roma Debabrata, President, STOP Tapoti Bhowmik, Senior Program Coordinator, Sanlaap Plenary Session 2 Thematic Recommendations and Launch of Gender Vulnerability Index Session : Ranjan Chak, Member, Plan India Governing Board Thematic Recommendations Ramya Subrahmanian, Executive Director, Know Violence in Childhood Amodh Kanth, Prayas JAC Society - Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights Roger Yates, Director, Disaster Risk Management, Plan International Rasa Sekulovic, Regional Head of Child Protection, Plan International Ravi Verma, Regional Director, International Center for Research on Women Plan India presents: Gender Vulnerability Index (GVI) Pradeep Narayanan, Director, Programme Strategy and Policy, Plan India Special Keynote Address Honourable Justice Madan B Lokur, Supreme Court of India Release of Gender Vulnerability Index Report by Justice Madan B Lokur
6.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. 9.30 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. 10.30 a.m. 10.30 a.m. - 1.30 p.m. 1.30 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. 2.30 p.m. - 3.45 p.m. High Tea and Guest Interaction lawn Day 2: Thursday, November 2, 2017 Debatathons - National Finale Voices of the Youth : You Haven t Heard The Best Of Us Yet! Special Address Feroz Abbas Khan, Eminent Film and Theatre Director Special Address: United Nations Sergey Kapinos, Representative for South Asia, UNODC Anju Malhotra, Principal Advisor, Gender and Development, UNICEF HQ From the States to the National - The Debatathons Rochana Mitra, Project Director, Plan India Pinky Pradhan, Senior Manager, Marketing and Communications, Plan India Debatathons -The National Finale Facilitator: Smita Bharti, Social Activist, Director, Writer Jury Experts Respond : Ranjan Chak, Member, Plan India Governing Board Mariann Eriksson, Secretary General, Plan International Sweden Yuichi Tanada, Executive Managing and National Director, Plan International Japan Nalini Gangadharan, Executive Director, CAP Foundation Bernard Francis, Senior Advocacy Officer, Canadian High Commission Kaushik Deka, Senior Associate Editor, India Today Ramesh Negi, person, Delhi State Commission for Protection of Child Rights Feroz Abbas Khan, Eminent Film and Theatre Director Lunch Parallel Session 3 Solutions Towards Inclusion, Access and Opportunities for Girls Theme 5: Street connected girls Theme 6: Girls in forced labour (Maple Hall) Surina Narula, Founder and Patron, Nalini Gangadharan, Executive Consortium for Street Children Director, CAP Foundation Rita Panicker Pinto, Founder and Executive Director, Butterflies Bina Seth Lashkari, Executive Director, Doorstep Schools Binu Nair, General Manager - Programmes, Bharti Foundation Poonam Mehta, Senior Programme Manager North and West, Plan India Kulbir Krishan, Advisor, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights Anita Kumar, Senior Programme Manager - South India, Plan India Deepali Nath, Director, Solutio Global Consulting Pvt. Ltd. Ashok Kumar, Field Manager, Academy of Gandhian Studies
P Joseph Victor Raj, National Convener, Campaign Against Child Labour 3.45 p.m. - 5.15 p.m. 5.15 p.m. - 5.45 p.m. 9.30 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. 12.00 p.m. Shivani Bhardwaj, Director, Sathi For All Partnership. Plenary Session 3 Emerging Challenges and Shared Learning : Mariann Eriksson, Secretary General, Plan International Sweden Panel Discussion Dorothy Rozga, Executive Director, ECPAT International Rinchen Chopel, Director General, South Asia Initiative to End Violence Against Children Cecilia Wallin, Criminal Intelligence Officer, Crimes Against Children Section, INTERPOL Asia-Pacific Sunita Dhanuwar, Executive Director, Shakti Samuha, Nepal Anoop Sharma, Founder and Creative Director, Company of Design Closing Session Prize Distribution - National Debatathon Day 3: Friday, November 3, 2017 Plenary Session 4 Driving The Change: Towards Inclusion and Gender Transformation Jacaranda Hall : S Parasuraman, Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Plan India Governing Board Member 12.00 p.m. - 1.00 p.m. 1.00 p.m. - Lunch Sanjoy Roy, Managing Director, Teamworks, and Trustee, Salaam Baalak Trust George Abraham, CEO, Score Foundation Aparajita Gogoi, Executive Director, Centre for Catalysing Change Asif Mohammed, Director, Programme Implementation, Plan India Syeda Sakira Sahin, Associate Professor, Department of Women s Studies, Gauhati University, Assam Sunita Prasad, Senior Manager - Sustainability and CR, Ericsson India Ltd. Renu Singh, Country Director, Young Lives Plenary Session 5 Valedictory Session and the Road Ahead Jacaranda Hall : JVR Prasada Rao, Special Advisor for UNAIDS, Former Special Envoy of UN Secretary General for Asia Pacific, Plan India Governing Board Youth Charter Special Address - Plan International Japan N Hobo, Vice, Governing Board, Plan International Japan Special Address Bilali Camara, Representative - India, UNAIDS Closing remarks and Vote of Thanks Bhagyashri Dengle, Executive Director, Plan India
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