SDG 16 Conference 2019 | Programme

• 08:30 – 09:30  |  Registration

  Participants will enter the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation through the main entrance and will be directed to the registration desk. Registration will take place on 27 May from 8:30 to 9:30 am. The registration desk will remain open for late arrivals.

  Logistics information here

• 09:30 – 10:15  |  Welcome and formal opening

  Venue: Sala Conferenze Internazionali

  Welcome and introductions:

  H.E. Amb. Elisabetta Belloni, Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy

  Opening remarks:

  H.E. Emanuela Del Re, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy

  H.E. Omar Hilale, Vice-President of ECOSOC and Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations

  Mr. Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations

  Ms. Irene Khan, Director-General, IDLO

• 10:15 – 11:45  |  High-level roundtable: SDG 16 and the transformational vision of the 2030 Agenda

  Venue: Sala Conferenze Internazionali

  SDG 16 as an enabler for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda

  Speakers:

  Hon. Dr. Priscilla Schwartz, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Sierra Leone

  Mr. Mohammad Farid Hamidi, Attorney-General, Afghanistan

  Mr. Hassan Haji, Minister of Justice, Somalia

  Ms. Asako Okai, Assistant Administrator, UNDP

  Ms. Jo Weiss, Head of Global Citizenship, White & Case

  Mr. Yoshimitsu Yamauchi, Assistant Vice-Minister of Justice, Japan

  H.E. Amb. Leoni Cuelenaere, Special Advisor on Access to Justice, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands

  H.E. Amb. Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Ambassador of Brazil to Italy

  Moderator: Ms. Irene Khan, Director-General, IDLO

• 11:45 – 12:00  |  Break

  Podium change. Conference will recommence in Sala Conferenze Internazionali 

• 12:00 – 13:30  |  High-level roundtable: SDG 16 in the context of leaving no one behind

  Venue: Sala Conferenze Internazionali

  Leaving no one behind as an entry point for reviewing progress on SDG 16, cross-cutting issues, and reaching the furthest behind first, including those threatened by violence, injustice and exclusion

  Speakers:

  Hon. David Maraga, Chief Justice, Kenya

  Mr. Albie Sachs, former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa

  Ms. Sima Samar, Head, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission

  Ms. Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children

  Mr. Pablo de Greiff, Senior Fellow and Director of the Transitional Justice Program, Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University School of Law

  Ms. Ana Carolina Paixao de Queiroz, Poncia, 16 x 16 Youth Initiative

  Moderator: Ms. Peggy Hicks, Director of the Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division, OHCHR

• 13:30 – 14:45  |  Lunch and side events

  See Side Event Programme below

• 14:45 – 16:15  |  Plenary roundtable: Reporting on SDG 16: Data gaps, challenges and opportunities

  Venue: Sala Conferenze Internazionali

  Exchange of lessons learned from national monitoring, reporting, and follow-up on SDG16

  Speakers:

  Mr. Enrico Giovannini, Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development

  Ms. Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Professor of Democracy Studies, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Chair of the European Research Centre for Anti-corruption and State-building

  Mr. Celso Herminio Soares Ribeiro, Vice-President, Cabo Verde National Institute of Statistics, Cabo Verde

  Mr. Adrian Franco, Vice-President of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, INEGI, Mexico

  Ms. Teresa Jennings, Vice-President, LexisNexis

  Mr. Conor Seyle, Director, One Future Earth

  Moderator: Mr. Jean-Luc Lemahieu, Director, Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs, UNODC

• 16:15 – 16:30  |  Break and move to parallel session format

  16:15 – 16:30 | Workstream A: Peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development
  16:15 – 16:30 | Workstream B: Ensuring Access to justice and effective rule of law at all levels
  16:15 – 16:30 | Workstream C: Effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

  Following the Workstreams A, B, C, refer to Parallel Sessions A1, B1, C2 below

• 16:30 – 18:00  |  Parallel Session A1: Ending and preventing violence: Advancing peace and sustainable development as mutually reinforcing processes

  Venue: Sala Conferenze Internazionali

  Ms. Daniela Ligiero, CEO of Together for Girls and Chair, Executive Committee, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children

  Mr. Helder Da Costa, General Secretary, g7+ Secretariat

  Ms. Marina Caparini, Senior Researcher, Director of the Governance and Society Programme, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

  Mr. Vasu Gounden, Executive Director of the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)

  Moderator: Mr. Henk-Jan Brinkman, Chief Strategy and Partnerships Branch, Peacebuilding Support, DPPA

• 16:30 – 18:00  |  Parallel Session B1: Sustainable Development through access to justice and the rule of law

  Venue: Sala Onofri

  Hon. David Maraga, Chief Justice, Kenya

  Ms. Sultana Kamal, former Executive Director, Ain o Salish Kendra, Bangladesh  

  Mr. Arsène Sendé, Judge and former Minister of Justice and Inspector General of Judicial Services, Central African Republic

  Mr. Cesare Pinelli, Member of the Venice Commission, Head of the Department of Public Law, Sapienza University

  Mr. Gerald Abila, Attorney and Founder, Barefoot Law, Uganda

  Moderator: Mr. Ignacio Saiz, Executive Director, Center for Economic and Social Rights 

• 16:30 – 18:00  |  Parallel Session C1: Building effective institutions for implementing the SDGs at all levels

  Venue: Sala Aldo Moro

  Ms. Lamia Moubayed Bissat, President of the Institut des finances Basil Fuleihan, Ministry of Finance, Lebanon

  Ms. Julie Gelfand, Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Office of the Auditor General, Canada

  Mr. Louis Meuleman, Visiting Professor Public Governance, Leuven University, Belgium

  Ms. Palmira N. Rios, President, Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), United States

  Moderator: Mr. Shantanu Mukherjee, Chief, Integrated Policy Analysis Branch, Division for Sustainable Development Goals, DESA

• 18:00 – 18:15  |  Special Remarks by H.E. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the General Assembly

  Sala Filippo de Grenet e degli Eroi e Valorosi

• 18:15 – 17:15  |  Reception organized by UNDP 

• 09:30 – 10:45  |  Plenary roundtable: Strategies for accelerating broad and inclusive implementation of SDG 16

  Venue: Sala Conferenze Internazionali

  Drawing together cross-cutting themes, overlapping issues

  Speakers:

  Ms. Lenny N. Rosalin, Deputy Minister for Child Development, Ministry of Women Empowerment and Gender Equality, Indonesia

  Ms. Ruth Ssentamu Nankabirwa, Chief Government Whip, Uganda

  Mr. Marcos Bonturi, Director of Public Governance, OECD

  Ms. Shelley Inglis, Executive Director, Human Rights Center, University of Dayton

  Mr. Carlos Negret Mosquera, Chair of the Global Alliance for National Human Rights Institutions

  Moderator: Mr. David Steven, Pathfinders / CIC-NYU

• 10:45 – 11:00  |  Break - move to parallel session format

  Refer to Parallel Sessions A2, B2, C2 below​

• 11:00 – 12:30  |  Parallel Session A2: Accelerating progress on peaceful, just and inclusive societies in conflict and crisis situations

  Venue: Sala Conferenze Internazionali

  Mr. Ivo Josipovic, Professor at Zagreb Law Faculty

  Ms. Sima Samar, Head, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission

  Ms. Karen Smith, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect

  Mr. Hans Born, Assistant Director and Head of the Policy and Research Division, DCAF

  Mr. Cherno Marenah, Solicitor General and Legal Secretary, Gambia

  Moderator: Mr. Samuel Rizk, Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding & Responsible Institutions, UNDP

• 11:00 – 12:30  |  Parallel Session B2: Promoting equality and protecting fundamental freedoms

  Venue: Sala Aldo Moro

  Ms. Hilary Gbedemah, Chair of CEDAW Committee

  Ms. Katerina Revocati, Chief Judicial Registrar, Tanzania

  Mr. Mauro Politi, Professor of Law, University of Trento

  Ms. Chiara Adamo, Head, Equality, Human Rights and Democratic Governance Team, Directorate General for Development and Cooperation, European Commission

  Ms. Isabel Penido Machado, Federal Public Defender, Brazil

  Moderator: Mr. Christof Heyns, Director, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria

• 11:00 – 12:30  |  Parallel Session C2: Responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making

  Venue: Sala Onofri

  Ms. Olfa Chérif Soukri, Member of Parliament, Tunisia

  Mr. Anselmo Lee, Senior Adviser, Asia Development Alliance (ADA)

  Ms. Keboitse Machangana, Director, Global Programme, International IDEA

  Mr. Emmanuel Amatepey, Founder and Executive Director, Youth Advocates, Ghana, 16X16 Youth Initiative

  Ms. Rida Altubuly, Mediterranean Women Mediators Network, Libya

  Moderator: Ms. Francesca Tardioli, Deputy Director-General for Political Affairs, Principal Director for the United Nations and Human Rights, Italy

• 12:30 – 14:00  |  Lunch and side events

  See Side Event Programme below

• 14:00 – 15:45  |  Parallel Session A3: Promoting dialogue and reducing insecurity

  Venue: Sala Onofri

  Mr. Ernst-Peter Brezovszky, Head of UNESCO Unit, Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs

  Ms. Samira Baručija, Project Coordinator, Youth for Peace, Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Ms. Rebeca Arias, UN Resident Coordinator, Guatemala

  Mr. Marcel Smits, Director for Europe, Institute for Economics and Peace

  Moderator: Ms. Ann-Belinda Preis, Chief of the Intercultural Dialogue Section, UNESCO

• 14:00 – 15:45  |  Parallel Session B3: Leveraging laws and policies to combat corruption, illicit financial flows, and organized crime

  Venue: Sala Conferenze Internazionali

  Mr. Ernesto Savona, Director, Transcrime (Joint Research Centre of Transnational Crime), Universita Cattolica, Milan

  Ms. Judith Shamalla, Senior Attorney, Civil Litigation and Asset Recovery, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, Kenya

  Ms. Anna Alvazzi del Frate, Director of Programmes, Small Arms Survey

  Mr. Mat Tromme, Director, Sustainable Development & Rule of Law Programme, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law

  Mr. Giovanni Russo, Direzione Nazionale Antimafia e Antiterrorismo, Italy

  Moderator: Mr. Jean-Luc Lemahieu, Director, Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs, UNODC

• 14:00 – 15:45  |  Parallel Session C3: Promoting enabling environments for participation, transparency and access to information

  Venue: Sala Aldo Moro

  Mr. Toby Mendel, Executive Director, Centre for Law and Democracy

  Mr. Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association

  Mr. Michel Nussbaumer, Director, Legal Transition Programme, ERBD

  Ms. Kishali Pinto Jayawardena, Commissioner, Right to Information (RTI) Commission, Sri Lanka

  Moderator: Ms. Arelys Bellorini, United Nations Representative, World Vision International

• 15:45 – 16:00  |  Break and move to plenary session format

  Conference will recommence in Sala Conferenze Internazionali

• 16:00 – 17:15  |  High-level plenary roundtable: Mobilizing partnerships and next steps

  Venue: Sala Conferenze Internazionali

  Highlights from three workstreams (one rapporteur per workstream)

  Key messages and recommendations to feed into the deliberations at the HLPF in July

  Main partnerships and platforms that help mobilize partners from all sectors behind a shared vision for SDG16

  Speakers:

  Highlights from CSO day (5 minutes)

  Highlights from side-events

  Three rapporteurs (7 minutes)

  Moderator: Ms. Maria Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General, Policy Coordination, DESA

• 17:30 – 18:35  |  Reception organized by the Taskforce on Justice and IDLO

   

Day 3 - Wednesday

Special segment on Partnerships, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Development

Side Events

Co-organized by UN DESA and IDLO 

Hosted by the Government of Italy