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Agenda as at 28.04.2014

TIME ACTIVITY VENUE REMARKS

MAY 4

Whole day

Arrivals and registration Hotels

MAY 5

Morning Arrivals and registration/ rest

12:00-14:00 Lunch Hotels

14:00:18:00 Facilitators and Rapporteurs Training Hotel where they stay

14:00-18:00 Social Media Fellow Training Hotel where bloggers

stay

14:00-18:00 Pre-training for youth delegates 2 different hotels

18:00-18:30 Departure to Sri Lankan cultural night

19:00-20:00 Sri Lankan cultural night & Dinner Stein Studio - Ratmalana

21:00 Return to Hotels

MAY 6

07:00 Breakfast

07:30 Departure to Hambantota From hotels

11:30-12:30 Opening Ceremony

Welcome speech by Co-Chair, National Steering Committee of WCY 2014

Opening remarks by International Youth Task Force

Special remarks by United Nations Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth

Key note speech by President of General Assembly

Presidential Convocation of the conference by H E President of Sri Lanka

Hambantota MRICC

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12:30-13:30 Lunch host by H.E. the President of Sri Lanka Hambantota MRICC

13:30-14:00 Official Photograph of the Ministers with H.E. the President of Sri Lanka Hambantota MRICC

14:30-16:30 Ministerial Dialogue Hambantota MRICC

14:00-18:00

Sightseeing tours for Youth Delegates Different locations in and

around Hambantota

Dinner in the

bus on the way

back to

Colombo

21:30 Arrival at hotels Hotels in Colombo

MAY 7

08:00-08:30 Departures from hotels to BMICH

Whole Day Parallel Events Exhibition Hall B

09:00-10:30 Main Plenary: Mainstreaming Youth in the Post-2015 Agenda – Looking back

Lloyd Russell-Moyle, VP YFJ

Dr. Sarath Amunugama, Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning, Sri Lanka

Subinay Nandy, Resident Coordinator, United Nations Sri Lanka

Chairman, Junior Chamber International

National Statements by Ministers

BMICH Main Hall

10:00-10:30

Coffee/ Tea break Committee Rooms,

Lobby and Marquees

10:30-12:50

Roundtable Plenaries & Breakout sessions: Foundations – Looking back

A - Committee Room A – Achieving Good Governance & Accountability

Hannah Smith, Restless Development

Minister of India

Elodie Beth Seo, UNDP

B – Committee Room B – Inclusive Youth Participation at all levels

Angga Dwi Martha, (Former Youth Delegate), Indonesia

Minister, Bulgaria

Committee Rooms and

Breakout Rooms

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Tasneem Mizra, UNDP

C – Committee Room C – Youth Rights

Andy Roland Nziengui, VP, PYU

Minister of Serbia

Wasantha Senanayake, MP

D - Sirimavo Hall C1 – Globalization/ Inclusive Youth-led Development

Aashish Khullar, MGCY

Minister, Fiji

Nishan de Mel, Head Verite Research, Sri Lanka

E - Sirimavo Hall C2 – Ending Systematic Inequalities

Ricardo Baruch (Mexico, Youth Coalition)

Haren Fernando MP

Una McCauley, Representative, UNICEF Sri Lanka

F - Sirimavo Hall E1 – Gender Equality

Philippa Gardner, WAGGGS

Kishu Gomes, Sri Lanka

Smita Mitra, UN Women

G - Sirimavo Hall E2 – Empowering Marginalized Youth including Most at Risk young people

Aries Valeriano, UNAIDS Asia-Pacific Regional Support Team

Minister, Moldova

United Nations: Anne Hammer, UNFPA Asia-Pacific Regional Office

12:50-14:00 Lunch Committee Room Lounge

13:30-14:00 Rapporteur meeting Rapporteur meeting

13:00-13:50 Side Events Committee Rooms

14:15-16:45 Roundtable plenaries & Breakout sessions:

Themes – Looking back

Committee Rooms and

Breakout Rooms

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A – Committee Room A – Realizing equal access to quality Education

Cheryl Perera, YAG

Seyed Abdulhamid Ahmadi, Minister, Iran

Antonia Wulff, Education International

B – Committee Room B – Full Employment & Entrepreneurship

Dilith Jayaweera

Minister, China

Mattieu Cognac, ILO

C – Committee Room C – Poverty Eradication & Food Security

Afou Bengaly, IMCS - Pax Romana Pan-African Coordinator Minister, Tonga Dr P B Jayasundara, Secretary to the Treasury of Sri Lanka D - Sirimavo Hall C1 – Promoting Healthy lives & access to Health

Pedro Miranda, IFMSA

Dr. Palitha Maheepala, Director General Health Services, Ministry of Health Sri Lanka, 47CPD member

Anindit Roy Chowdhury, Director,IPPF Regional Office

E - Sirimavo Hall C2 – Environmental protection, Emergency preparedness & Youth centered

Urbanization

Voshitha Wijenayake

Minister,Maldives

Doug Ragan UN HABITAT

Sabrina Marquant, UNFCCC YOUNGO

F - Sirimavo Hall E1 – Realizing Peace, Reconciliation & ending Violence

Sandy Tesch Wilkins, Red Cross Red Crescent Youth

Nalaka Gunawardene

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John Loughton

G - Sirimavo Hall E2 – Ensuring inclusive Recreation, Sports & Cultures

Nevena Vukasinovic, ENGSO

Minister, Yemen

Hon.M. Hisbullah, Minister Sri Lanka 16:45-19:00 Facilitators/Rapporteurs Meeting Rapporteur Room

16:45-17:05 Coffee/ Tea break Committee Rooms,

Lobby and Marquees

17:05-18:15 6 Regional meetings Committee Rooms


19:00-20:00 Boulevard of Outcomes Entrance to Committee

Rooms

18:30-20:00 Official Discussions (Outcome Negotiations) Committee Room A

20:00-21:30 Dinner Committee Room Lounge

21:30

Departure to Hotels/ Evening Events/

Evening Negotiations

Committee Room A

MAY 8



09:00-10:00 Main Plenary: Mainstreaming Youth in the Post-2015 Agenda – What we want

Saba Loftus, UN Major Group Children and Youth

Lalith Weeratunge, Secretary to the President, Sri Lanka

Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, Deputy Executive Director & Assistant Secretary General, UN HABITAT

BMICH Main Hall

10:00-10:30 Coffee/ Tea break, BMICH Committee

Rooms, Lobby and

Marquees

10:30-12:50 Roundtable plenaries & Breakout sessions: Committee Rooms &

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Foundations – What we want

A – Committee Room A – Achieving Good Governance & Accountability

Ahmed Adamu, Chairperson, Commonwealth Youth Council National Youth Services Council, Singapore Amelia Whitworth - Plan International


Luiz Carlos Guedes YAG

Minister, Egypt

Allen Jennings, Chief Development Programming Section, UNV HQ


Ishitha Chaudhry, Founder YP Foundation India Minister, Kiribati

Matthieu Cognac, ILO


Waruguru Wanjau, MGCY

Shehan Semasinghe, MP, Sri Lanka

Prof. Indralal, demographer, University of Colombo


Surya Karki, Maya Universe Academy

Lane Robinson, Commonwealth Youth Programme

Ramanathan Balakrishnan Deputy Regional Director, UN Women


Samuel Kissi, Curious Minds, Ghana (Youth Coalition)

Upeksha Swarnamali MP

Dhanashri Brahme, Programme Speacialist , Gender, UNFPA India


Breakout rooms

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Ashura Michael , Lenoard Cheshire Kenya

Sathya Baashi UN YAP SL

Minister, Dominican Republic

Dr. Shanta Abeysingha, Open University, Sri Lanka

12:50-14:00 Lunch Committee Room Lounge

13:30-14:00 Facilitators/ Rapporteurs Meeting Rapporteurs Room


14:15-16:45 Roundtable plenaries & Breakout sessions:

Themes – What we want

A – Committee Room A – Realizing equal access to quality Education

Postica Doina, WOSM

Anna Surasenco YAG

Minister, Bangladesh

Louise Mvono, Deputy Representative, UNICEF Bangladesh


Felipe Ignacio Jeldres Cerda, President, IUSY

Thilanga Sumathipala, MP, Sri Lanka

Reiko Tsushima, ILO

Dr. Sukesh Zamwar, International Cooperative Alliance


Anushka Wijesinha, Institute for Policy Studies, Sri Lanka Minister, Myanmar Eshter Eshiet, Bridge Leadership Foundation

D –- Sirimavo Hall C1 Promoting Healthy lives & access to Health

Josko Mise, President IFMSA

Minister, Cuba

Dr Marc Derveeuw, UNFPA Representative, Cambodia

Committee Rooms and

Marquees

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E - Sirimavo Hall C2 – Environmental protection, Emergency preparedness & Youth centered

Urbanization

David Collste, Global Coordinator

Patali Champika Ranawake Minister of Science and Technology, Sri Lanka

Nhathan Nguyen, UNEP MGCY OP

Helene Opsal, UN-Habitat

F - Sirimavo Hall E1– Realizing Peace, Reconciliation & ending Violence

Anna Matilda Fleming, UNOY

Minister of Nepal

Asanga Abeygunasekera, Executive Director, Lakshman Kadiragamar Institute

G - Sirimavo Hall E2 – Ensuring inclusive Recreation, Sports & Cultures Thiveegabalan Chanthirakumar (Chanthuru), UNYAP Sri Lanka/ Sri Lanka YP

Minister, Zambia

Arjuna Ranatunge, Cricket World Cup winning Captain

16:45-19:00 Facilitators/Rapporteurs Meeting Rapporteur Room


Lobby and Marquees

17:05-18:15 6 Regional meetings Committee Rooms



Rooms

18:30-20:00 Official Meetings (Outcome negotiations) Committee Room A

20:00-21:30 Dinner Committee Room Lounge

21:30

Departure to Hotels/ Evening Events/

Evening Negotiations

Committee Room A

MAY 9


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09:00-10:00 Main Plenary: Mainstreaming Youth in the Post-2015 Agenda – Taking Action

Chernor Bah, Chairperson, Global Education First Initiative

Dr. Palitha Kohona, PR of Sri Lanka Mission to UN, NYC

Nobuko Norike, Asia-Pacific Regional Director, UNFPA

BMICH Main Hall

10:00-10:30

Coffee/ Tea break BMICH Committee

Rooms, Lobby and

Marquees

10:30-11:00

Roundtable plenaries & Breakout sessions:

Foundations – Taking Action

A – Committee Room A – Achieving Good Governance & Accountability

Mahinda Samarasinghe – H.E President’s Special Envoy on Human Rights

Katherine Ellis Director Youth Affairs Division, Commonwealth Secretariat

Senior Official, Microsoft (TBC)

Sonali Dayaratne, UNDP


Paulo Pinheiro, Chair of the CoE Advisory Council on Youth Bruno Vanhoni, Foreign Affairs Adviser at the National Youth Secretariat, Brazil

Doug Ragen, UN HABITAT

Narendra Mishra, UNV


Miguel Alvarado Blancas Alvarado, President, EIJ

Sergio Lopez (Paraguay)

Minister, Namibia

Gamini Wanasekara Assistant Representative UNFPA Sri Lanka

Committee Rooms and

Marquees

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Natasha Ardiani, NYD and UN Youth Delegate Indonesia

Minister, Tanzania

Tharanath Basnayake MP


Jeffrey Accaba, researcher and Philippines Youth Activist /Youth LEAD

Eric Weerawardhana, MP, Sri Lanka

Stephen Adkisson Deputy Regional Director, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia


Sabha Clara Delshad, UNESCO Minister, Pakistan David Crone, YAG member


Robert Ssewaggaudde, VP, WFDYS

Ruwan Wijewardene, MP, Sri Lanka

Mikaela Hildebrand, UNAIDS HQ

12:50-14:00 Lunch Committee Lounge

13:30-14:00 Facilitators/ Rapporteurs Meeting Rapporteurs Room

13:00-13:50 Side Events Committee Rooms Details

14:15-17:45 Official Meetings (Outcome Negotiations) Committee Room A


Lobby and Marquees

14:15-16:45 Cinema Hall – Realizing equal access to quality Education

Sumaya Saluja, UNGEI Gene Osagi, The World at School Initiative Morgan Strecker, Education Specialist, UNICEF HQ


BMICH Main Hall

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Anjhula Singh Bias, Bias-Selvanathan Foundation

Minister, Republic of GUINEA

Gianni Rosas, ILO


Isabel Sloman, FAO Focal Point for Youth

Minister, Uganda

Beth Crawford FAO Representative in Sri Lanka

D - Sirimavo Hall C1 – Promoting Healthy lives & access to Health

Rinaldi Ridwan (Indonesia Youth Coalition)

Dr. Ramesh Pathirane, MP Sri Lanka

Alain Sibenaler, Representative, UNFPA Sri Lanka

E - Sirimavo Hall C2– Environmental protection, Emergency preparedness & Youth centered

Urbanization

Krishneil Narayan Minister,Vanuatu

Ananda Mallawatantri, UNDP

F - Sirimavo Hall E1 – Realizing Peace, Reconciliation & ending Violence

Shobana, Sri Lanka Youth Parliament

Minister, Somalia

Gita Sabrawhal, UNDP

G - Sirimavo Hall E2 – Ensuring inclusive Recreation, Sports & Cultures

Carly Walker Dawson - IFMSEI

Uditha Lokubandara, MP Sri Lanka

Ms. Himali Jinadasa, UNESCO

Sara Visa Coumans (Dance4life)



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Rooms

20:00 Dinner And Evening Get together Racecourse Ground

MAY 10

09:00-10:30 Closing Plenary of WCY 2014

Mr. Ravi Karkara: Global Advisor to the World Conference on Youth 2014

Director General: Mexico Youth Institute

Hon. Rajadurai, Sri Lanka

BMICH Main Hall

ICMYO Meeting Committee Room B

MGCY/Rio+ 20s Annual General Meeting Committee Room B

Whole Day Departures

Travel

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