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DAY 1- FRIDAY, GENERAL ASSEMBLY November 11, 2022

15:00 - 16:00 Central European Time (CET)

Registration of Voting Delegates and credentials verification with GWI Membership Committee (MemCom)

15:00 – 16:00 CET

Conversation Café

16:00-16:30 CET

Formal Opening 
1. Virtual setting housekeeping
2. Welcome from the GWI President
3. Welcome from the co-hosting NFA President, Indian Federation of University Women’s Associations
4. Welcome from Keynote Speaker, Dr. Helen Bond, Ph.D., Professor School of Education,
Howard University, Fulbright-Nehru Scholar to India

16:30 – 18:00 CET

Business Session 1
5. Introduction of delegates and other General Assembly members
6. Introduction of General Assembly functionaries and staff
7. Apologies and remembrances (moment of silence)
8. MemCom confirmation from the Credentials Committee of a quorum
9. Adoption of the Agenda
10. Adoption of the Rules of Procedure
11. Minutes of the 33rd Assembly
12. Welcoming of new affiliates
13. Introduction of candidates for the GWI Board of Officers
14. Introduction of Candidates for GWI Standing Committees

18:00-19:00 CET

Business Session 2
15. Overview of GWI’s finances 
    a. Triennial Report of the Treasurer
    b. Triennial Report of the Finance Committee by the Swiss Assistant Treasurer
16. Discussion of the audited financial statements 2019, 2020, and 2021
17. Presentation followed by discussion of the triennial financial planning 2023-2025
18. Presentation followed by discussion of the proposed rate of annual dues payable to
GWI by the NFAs from 2023 to 2025

19. Vote on
a) Internal resolution 1: Acceptance of audited financial statements 2019, 2020 and
2021

b) Internal resolution 2: Acceptance of triennial planning 2023-2025
c) Internal resolution 3: The Rate of Annual Dues Payable to GWI by the National
Federations and Associations (NFAs)

d) Internal resolution 4: Acceptance of auditor and auditor type
e) Appointment of Assistant Treasurers

19:00-19:45 CET

Voting for Board of Officers and Standing Committees followed by Conversation Café

19:45-21:15 CET

20. Report of Board of Officers
21. Report of Executive Director
22. Report of the Resolutions Committee
23. Report of the Nominations Committee
24. Report of the Membership Committee
25. Report of the Education Committee

26. Report of the Committee for the Award of International Fellowships
27. Report of the Special Committee on Project Development
28. Report of the Special Committee for the Hegg Hoffet Fund
29. Report of the GWI Young Member Network
30. Report of the GWI Regional Groups
31. Reports of National Affiliates
32. Reports of GWI Representatives to the United Nations
a. United Nations Representatives, Geneva
b. United Nations Representatives, New York
c. United Nations Representatives, Vienna
d. United Nations Representatives to UNESCO

21:15 - 21:45CET

Conversation Café

DAY 2- SATURDAY, GENERAL ASSEMBLY continued November 12, 2022

14:00 – 15:30 CET

Indian Federation of University Women’s Association (IFUWA) Culture Event

 

15:30 – 16:00 CET

Voting Delegates & credentials verification with GWI Membership Committee

 

15:30 – 16:00 CET

Conversation Café

16:00 – 16:30 CET

Plenary Session: GWI Renew and Rebuild

16:30 - 17:00 CET

Business Session 4
33. MemCom confirmation from the Credentials Committee of a quorum
34. Results of elections for President, Vice Presidents and Treasurer 

17:00 – 17:30 CET

Business Session 4 cotinued

35. Emergency resolutions from the floor (if needed)
36. Introduction of Policy Resolutions
37. Policy Resolutions 1 – 5

38. Policy Resolutions 6-10

18:15 - 18:30 CET

Delegate voting on Policy Resolutions 1-10

18:30 – 19:45 CET

Business Session 5
39. Introduction of Constitutional Amendments
40. Vote on Constitutional Amendments
41. Results of elections and appointments for GWI Standing Committees

19:45 – 20:15 CET

Business Session 6
42. Unfinished business
43. Opening of the 35th Triennium
44. Closing of the 34th Triennium
45. GWI Every Women and Every Girl Song

 

20:15 – 21:45 CET

Indian Federation of University Women’s Association (IFUWA) Culture Event (repeat)

DAY 3- SUNDAY, 'FROM GROWTH TO SUSTAINABILITY' PUBLIC CONFERENCE (Selection of one workshop or seminar per session). November 13, 2022

13:15 CET

Workshop 1 (Theme 2): Localising the SDGs: GWI Young Members Network, the SDGs Ambassadors, Young Members Network: Sudha Srivastava (UK), Dr Basak Ovacik (Turkey)

13:15 CET

Workshop 2 (Theme 3/4): Exploring the causes for inequality in education by reviewing actual cases occurring, and attempting to develop women's competence of discussing such serious issues in English as a solution for improving the situations, Dr Valerie Anne Wilkinson (Japan), Kei Foran (Japan)

13:15 CET

Workshop 3 (Theme 4): Caring for our Educators: Building Resilience, Wellbeing and Future Readiness,  Shruti Sonthalia (India)

15:00 CET

Seminar 4a (Theme 4): Citizens from the cradle: Sowing the seeds of Peace, Malvina Segovia (Paraguay)

Seminar 4b (Theme 3): I came to you as a co-learner: Living with Blocks and Filters in Japan, Dr Valerie Anne Wilkinson (Japan)

Seminar 4c (Theme 4):  How to take advantage of being a woman in the workplace, Dr Marité Mehr (Spain)

15:00 CET

Workshop 5 (Theme 4):  Hope for the Future Dr Başak Ovasik (Turkey), Emine Tuba Sahin (Turkey)

15:00 CET

Workshop 6 (Theme 2): Graduate Women and the Localisation of the SDGs to the grassroots in Nigeria, Dr Kehinde Grace Adeosun (Nigeria), Professor Comfort Onifade (Nigeria)

16:45 CET

GWI Programme: Presentation of 2022 Fellowship Awardees

18:00 CET

Workshop 7 (Theme 4): Gender and Women. Promoting peace through Arts Glenda Hecksher (Mexico)

18:00 CET

Workshop 8 (Theme 1):  Capacity Training Workshop for Youths as Change Makers for Equal and Quality Education for all in Nigeria, Professor Emily Ayo-John (Nigeria), Dr Comfort Otegbeye (Nigeria)

18:00 CET

Workshop 9 (Theme 4):  How To Empower Women Beyond Basic Skills, Dr Başak Ovasik (Turkey), Emine Tuba Sahin (Turkey)

19:45 CET

Seminar 10a (Theme 5) (Spanish): Women and Girls in Care Work during the COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic effects in Mexico, Dr Gloria Ramirez (Mexico)

Seminar 10b (Theme 4): Teaching beyond the Canon (or how hip hop can decolonise syllabi and inspire students to co-create and commit to learning, Dr Rachel Anne Gillett (Netherlands)

Seminar 10c (Theme 4): Intergenerational leadership steering education through climate change, Shaila Mistry (USA)

Seminar 10d (Theme 1): SDG 101, Introduction to the SDGs, Dr Basak Ovacik (Turkey)

 

19:45 CET

Workshop 11 (Theme 2): Women Graduates-USA & Institute of International Education (IIE) Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) Partnership, Maryella Hannum (USA), Laura Christoffersen (USA)

19:45 CET

Workshop 12 (Theme 5): Social behaviour while facing COVID-19, Dra. Teresita Ledezma de Calderon (Bolivia), Dra. Gloria Artovar Ossio (Bolivia)

21:30 CET

Seminar 13a (Theme 3): Women's Organisations are diminishing. Why is that?, Alyson Manning (New Zealand)

Seminar 13b (Theme 3): Assessing the Gender Gap in Academia and the Effects of COVID-19, Rae Duff (New Zealand)

Seminar 13c (Theme 5): COVID-19: Compensating for the effects of COVID-19 on education for women and girls; how to adapt and move forward, Rosa Maria Mendoza Hidalgo (El Salvador)

Seminar 13d (Theme 1): Tackling Growing Inequalities in Education in New Zealand and Sierra Leone, Yeabu Tholley (Sierra Leone), Dr Shirley Gillett (New Zealand)

21:30 CET

Workshop 14 (Theme 3): How we do Advocacy - Fighting for Social Justice with Education, Heather Oxman (Canada), Audrey Hobbs-Johnson (Canada)

21:30 CET

Workshop 15 (Theme 4): Educating the new generations for a more equal, peaceful, and sustainable world, Malvina Segovia (Paraguay), Noemí Castillo (Panama), Dr Marité Mehr (Spain)

23:15 CET

Workshop 16 (Theme 4): Learning for Life: Enhancing social citizenship, Dr Linda Robertson (New Zealand), Dr Sian Halcrow (New Zealand)

23:15 CET

Workshop 17 (Theme 5): An international Bank for women, a way to compensate for the inequity that deepened COVID-19, Ana Milagro Marroquín Funes (El Salvador), Rosa Maria Mendoza Hidalgo (El Salvador)

23:15 CET

Workshop 18 (Theme 2) (English and Spanish):  Educating the Nature Mindset for the UN SDGs: A Motivational Synergy to Solve the Climate Crisis -- "Educar una mentalidad impregnada de Naturaleza para las Metas de Desarrollo Sostenible de la ONU (UN SDGs): una sinergia motivacional para resolver la crisis climática", Laura Rojo MacLeod (USA), Midge Delevan (USA)