DAY 1 - AUGUST 1st
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REGISTRATION: 7:30 – 9:00
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OPENING KEYNOTE / PLENARY
9:00 – 10:30
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MODERATOR:
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Angelica Valenzuela, Vice President, Programs, Children Affected by AIDS Foundation
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WELCOMING REMARKS:
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Maria Cecilia Landerreche Gomez Morin, National System for the Integral Development of the Family, Mexico
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DIGNITARY'S OPENING REMARKS:
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Michel Sidibe, Deputy Executive Director, Programme, UNAIDS
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INTRODUCING THE KEYNOTE:
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Dr. Natalia Kanem, President, The ELMA Philanthropies
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
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Elizabeth Mataka, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for HIV/AIDS in Africa
"The global effort to help children – What’s happening out there, and what is the relevance to national actors & front-line organizations?"
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MORNING BREAK & NETWORKING TIME: 10:30 – 10:50
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SUB-PLENARIES
10:50 – 12:00
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Stream 1:
Knowledge & skills exchange:
Front-line organizations & Institutions growing stronger through evidence-based practice
The best evaluated front-line programs: Which should be taken to scale, and what are the barriers & possibilities
MODERATOR: Stefan Germann, World Vision
SPEAKER #1: Dr. Jane Chege, World Vision International
SPEAKER #2: Dr. Connie Malega Kganakga, Department of Social Development, Government of the Republic of South Africa
DISCUSSANT: Anne Lindeberg, Swedish International Development Agency
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Stream 2:
Models that can work right now:
In-country responses that can support children & families
Moving forward - the role of National Plans of Action in helping to move national agendas on orphans and other vulnerable children
MODERATOR: Peter McDermott, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
SPEAKER #1: Stuart Kean, World Vision, UK AIDS Consortium & Regional Inter-Agency Task Team on HIV/AIDS
SPEAKER #2: Ahmed Hussein, Department of Children’s Services, Kenya
SPEAKER #3: Sirkka Ausiku, Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare, Namibia
DISCUSSANT: Doug Webb, UNICEF Ethiopia
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Stream 3:
Global cooperation to support in-country efforts:
International efforts, funding & research to support in-country agendas
Institutional Shift: Highlighting successful in-country efforts to shift from orphanages to community-based care for vulnerable children
MODERATOR: Aaron Greenberg, UNICEF New York, formerly with the Better Care Network
SPEAKER #1: Mulugeta Gebru, JECCDO, Ethiopia
SPEAKER #2: Dr. Maria Mabetoa, Dept. of Social Development, South Africa
DISCUSSANT: Kirk Felsman, USAID
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LUNCH: 12:00-13:00
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PARALLEL SESSIONS
13:00 – 14:20
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Sharing Perspectives from the Field:
Care & support of caregivers: What progress have we made in the last 2 years?
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Sharing Perspectives from the Field:
Peer prevention models – what’s new in the last two years?
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Sharing Perspectives from the Field:
Girl children
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Workshop on early learning activities
Front-line organizations find out how to integrate early learning activities into their HIV/AIDS programming & find out how this helps in brain development
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Scale-up of paediatric treatment
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Improving the coordination of NGO and state-run services
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Implementation challenges and solution for Education for All
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Closing the gap between policy, research and local front-line organizations:
What’s filtering up and why not, what’s filtering down and why not? Community-based action research – which are the best models.
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Enhanced Protection for Children Affected by HIV/AIDS - Lessons from the field and best practices
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MOVE TO NEXT SESSION: 14.20 – 14:30
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PARALLEL SESSIONS
14:30 – 15:50
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Regional Field Perspectives:
Community support to Eastern European children – What are the best models of care & what’s new?
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Regional Field Perspectives:
Latin America & the Caribbean – What are the best models of care & what’s new?
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Regional Field Perspectives:
Community support to Asian children – What are the best models of care & what’s new?
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Sharing Perspectives from the Field:
Schools as systems of support
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PMTCT ‘plus’– what’s new in the last 2 years?
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Integrating treatment programs with psychosocial support – the best models
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Skills-building session on child-adult partner-ships: Lessons emerging from consultations leading up to the Regional Inter Agency Task Team (RIATT) conference, Dar es Salaam, September 2008
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Policy debate about supporting low-prevalence countries
Researchers and funders debate the best models
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Legal protection and justice for children affected by HIV/AIDS – the best models
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AFTERNOON BREAK & NETWORKING TIME: 15:50 – 16:10
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AFTERNOON PLENARY
16:10 – 17:30
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Challenges of government leadership around children and HIV/AIDS
MODERATOR:
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Bience Gawanas, Commissioner for Social Affairs, African Union
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SPEAKER #1:
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Professor Sheila Dinotshe Tlou, PhD, Member of Parliament, Former Minister of Health, Botswana
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SPEAKER #2:
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Dr. Mphu Ramatlapeng, Minister of Health & Social Welfare, Lesotho
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SPEAKER #3:
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Dr. Esther Byer-Suckoo, Minister of Family, Youth, Sports and Environment, Barbados
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DISCUSSANT:
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Jimmy Kolker, Chief, HIV/AIDS Section, UNICEF
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EVENING RECEPTION: 17:30 – 19:00 (Networking Reception, Children’s Art Exhibit & Dance Performance by Mexico en Movimiento)
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DAY 2 - AUGUST 2nd
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REGISTRATION: 7:30 – 8:30
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PLENARY
8:30 – 10:30
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Fresh Evidence for Action on Children’s Wellbeing:
A Conversation with the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and AIDS (JLICA)
MODERATORS:
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Peter Bell, Harvard University, Co-chair, JLICA
Agnes Binagwaho, Rwandan HIV/AIDS Commission, Co-chairs, JLICA
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PANELLISTS:
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Dr. Jim Kim, Harvard University
Dr. Geoff Foster, Consultant, Government of Zimbabwe
Professor Linda Richter, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
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INTERVIEWER:
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Beatrice Were
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MORNING BREAK & NETWORKING TIME: 10:30 – 10:50
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SUB-PLENARIES
10:50 – 12:00
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Stream 1:
Knowledge & skills exchange:
Front-line organizations & Institutions growing stronger through evidence-based practice
Funder-civil society dialogue on capacity-building: Donors engage with front-line organizations on how to better support their capacity building
MODERATOR: Wairimu Mungai, WEMIHS, Kenya
SPEAKER #1: Saeed Wame, Namwera AIDS Coordinating Committee, Malawi
SPEAKER #2: Jennifer Lentfer, Firelight Foundation
SPEAKER #3: Kanika Bahl, Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative
SPEAKER #4: Sonia Borja, Asociación Solas y Unidas
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Stream 2:
Models that can work right now:
In-country responses that can support children & families
The case for cash transfers: why countries need to implement right now
MODERATOR: Linda Richter, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
SPEAKER #1: Michelle Adato, International Food and Policy Research Institute
SPEAKER #2: Chris Desmond, Human Sciences Research Council
DISCUSSANT: Doug Webb, UNICEF
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Stream 3:
Global cooperation to support in-country efforts:
International efforts, funding & research to support in-country agendas
The politics of advocacy around early childhood and HIV/AIDS: The evidence is well known. Now how do we convince nations to make this a priority?
MODERATOR: Louise Zimanyi, Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development
SPEAKER #1: Dr. Helen Gayle, CARE
SPEAKER #2: Dr. Jeff Balch, Association of Western European Parliamentarians in support of Africa (AWEPA)
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LUNCH: 12:00-13:00
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PARALLEL SESSIONS
13:00 – 14:20
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International model sharing:
Caring for the most vulnerable – street children, children with disabilities, etc.
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International model sharing:
Faith-based organizations
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International model sharing:
Front-line organizations in low-prevalence areas
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Sharing Perspectives from the Field:
Psychosocial support programs
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Implementation of cash transfers:
Front-line organizations & funders debating the details of roll-out
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Report card:
Country-level prevention campaigns – which are the models that should be replicated
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A global assessment of early childhood programming:
What’s currently on the ground, and what are we doing about it? How do we know there’s some impact? What are the costs?
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Funder-civil society dialogue:
Funders report on efforts to better leverage their funds to support indigenous, country-level change. Front-line organizations provide critical feedback
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How can in-country advocacy efforts for children be better supported by the international community: Round table discussion
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MOVE TO NEXT SESSION: 14.20 – 14:30
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PARALLEL SESSIONS
14:30 – 15:50
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International model sharing:
Palliative Care – local models and progress in support system development
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International model sharing:
NGOs, CBOs & FBOs share the best tools for organizational capacity-building
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Sharing Perspectives from the Field:
Including children & youth in community-level advocacy
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Sharing Perspectives from the Field:
Disclosure to children
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Eliminating service bottlenecks:
The best examples of getting non-cash resources down to families and communities
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Pediatric art in resource-poor environments: An operational reality check from the field
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Challenges with administering pediatric formulations
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In-country advocacy work on children - local organizations work, and their challenges:
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Report card:
How well the large private, bilateral & multilateral donors are supporting in-country agendas
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AFTERNOON BREAK & NETWORKING TIME: 15:50 – 16:10
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AFTERNOON PLENARY & CLOSING REMARKS
16:10 – 17:30
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MODERATOR:
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Karen Vance-Wallace, The Teresa Group
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16:10 – 16:40:
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Review of Symposium
Speakers: Health and Development Networks Key Correspondents
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16:40 – 17:25:
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Closing Plenary - Where do we want to be in 2010?
Speaker: Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, Former Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Africa
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17:25 – 17:30:
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Closing Remarks: Karen Vance-Wallace, The Teresa Group
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EVENING RECEPTION: 17:30 – 19:00 (Sponsored by Taylor & Francis Group, publishers of 'Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies')
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