Appendix 2
FIPA’s Group of Women Parliamentarians of the Americas and Fundación Agenda Colombia Present a Congress of Parliamentarians entitled:
“Towards a Gender-Sensitive Legislative Agenda for Development in the Americas”
AGENDA
Bogotá, Colombia, November 20-21, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Afternoon and evening
Transfer of Participants from the Eldorado International Airport of Bogotá to the Crowne Plaza Tequendama Hotel
Thursday, November 20, 2008
8:00
Meeting in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Tequendama Hotel and Transfer to the National Capitol
8:30am
9:00am
Registrations
10:00am
Opening Ceremony
National Capitol, Senate
Bruno Moro (TBC)
Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme in Colombia
Luiz Carlos Hauly
Member of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, President of the Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas (FIPA)
Hernán Andrade
President of the Congress of the Republic of Colombia
10:15am
Presentation of the Congress’ Objectives and Methodology
Cecilia López
Senator of Colombia, Chair of FIPA’s Group of Women Parliamentarians of the Americas
10:45am
Coffee Break
11:30am
Session 1 : Economic Policies and Gender
Moderator : Céline Hervieux-Payette
Senator of Canada, former President of FIPA and Executive Committee member
Alma Espino: Macroenomy and Gender
Interdisciplinary Centre of Development Studies. Montevideo, Uruguay
Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez: Comments
Senator of Colombia, Vice-President of FIPA for South America
12:30pm
Parliamentary Dialogue
2:30pm
Lunch
3:45pm
Session 2: International Crisis, Development and Gender: Implications for the Americas
Moderator: Luiz Carlos Hauly
Member of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, FIPA President
Arnaldo Madeira
Member of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies
María Estela de la Cruz
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic, Vice-President of FIPA for Central America
Rosemarie Husbands-Mathurin
Speaker of the House of Assembly of St. Lucia
Minerva Hernández Ramos
Senator of Mexico
4:00pm
5:00pm
Friday, November 21, 2008
Session 3: Social Policies, Gender and Development
Moderator: Gloria Inés Ramírez
Senator of Colombia.
Danilo Rojas Betancourt.
De Justicia, Colombia
Vivian Roza
Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C.
10:30am
11:00am
Special presentation: Environmental Sustainability and Gender.
Speaker TBC
11:45am
Session 4: Democracy, Political-Electoral Reforms and Gender.
Moderator: Elsa Gladys Fuentes
Senator of Colombia
Andrew Ellis
Director of Operations, International IDEA
Raúl Alconada Sempé
Senior Advisor of the Secretariat for Political Affairs, Organization of American States
María Emma Wills
Director of the Department of Political Science, University of Los Andes
Oscar Sánchez
United Nations Development Programme, Colombia.
12:45pm
4:15pm
Session 5: Recommendations towards a Gender-Sensitive Legislative Agenda and Development of a Follow-Up Strategy
Facilitator: Cecilia López
4:30pm
5:30pm
Session 5: Continuation
Closing Speech
Céline Hervieux-Payette
