The Elsie Initiative Fund and Canada are pleased to invite you to the high-level event:?
Launch of the Elsie Initiative Fund Third Programming Round?
Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵHQ Conference Room 11 & Zoom
30 March 2023 | 9:00 AM ¨C 10:30 AM (EDT)?
English [French, Spanish and Arabic?available for Zoom attendees only]
The event will feature a discussion with Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ leadership, Elsie Initiative Fund (EIF) fund recipients, donors, and partners on the imperative of ensuring uniformed women¡¯s participation in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ peacekeeping and present the results and impact of innovative projects funded by the EIF. The event will also highlight Member State's and the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ¡¯s steadfast commitment in advancing gender parity in the security sector and in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ peace operations.?
Speakers will include:
- Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister of State for the Middle East, South Asia, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and the Prime Minister¡¯s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, the United Kingdom?
- H.E. Jacqueline O'Neill, Ambassador for Women, Peace and Security, Canada?
- Ms. Sima Sami Bahous, Executive Director of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Women, United Nations?
- Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, United Nations
- Counsellor Maria N. Beretta, Political Coordinator of the Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the United Nations
- Captain (Navy)?Veronica Arhin, Gender Policy Advisor to the Chief of Defence Staff, Ghana Armed Forces?
- Major General Maureen O¡¯Brien, Deputy Military Adviser, United Nations Department of Peace Operations?
- Commissioner Christine Fossen, Police Commissioner, United Nations Mission in South Sudan?
Dr. Sabrina Karim, Assistant Professor, Cornell University?
Please?register through?.
