Conference on Gender Equality and Danish Development PolicyA half-day conference on gender equality and development is organised by theDanish Council for International Development Cooperation.The conference takes place at Ingeniørernes Hus 31-33 Kalvebod Brygge, DK-1780 Copenhagen V, on the 9thof November 2009.

Program09.0009.3009.3509.5010.1010.30Registration and coffee

Welcome

Chairman of the Council, Professor Holger Bernt Hansen

Gender Equality – Key to Danish Development Policy

Minister for Development Cooperation Ulla Tørnæs

Half the Sky - Moving Gender up the Political Agenda

Pulitzer Prize winning co-author ofHalf the SkySheryl WuDunn

MDG3 - Doing Something Extra for Gender Equality

CEO ofAdcomGeeteara Choudhury, Bangladesh

Lessons Learned – Gender mainstreaming across national

policies and budgets

Former Ghanaian Minister of Woman and Children’s Affairs,now Senior Adviser on gender equality in Liberia Alima Mahana

Panel Discussion

Participants discuss policy perspectives with the panel

Concluding remarks

Chairman of the Council Holger Bernt Hansen rounds off