The Womanity Award Announcement of Laureates and Special Online Forum

May 20, 2014 – 4.00 - 5.00 PM UTC Webcast live @ www.womanity.org

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Welcome address by Antonella Notari Vischer, Executive Director, the Womanity

Foundation, and, Monique Villa, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation (event moderator)

Introduction to the Womanity Award - Yann Borgstedt, Founder and President of

The Womanity Foundation, and Lionel Bodin, Senior Manager, Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP)

Announcement of the Womanity Award Laureates 2014 - Yann Borgstedt Interview with the Laureates - Monique Villa Panel discussion with experts and Womanity Award Laureates, moderated by

Monique Villa, and live questions from the public, featuring: - Lionel Bodin - Rachel Vincent, Director of Media and Communications, Nobel Women’s Initiative - Mazeda Hossain, Social Epidemiologist, London School of Hygiene &

Tropical Medicine

Conclusion – Antonella Notari Vischer

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ONLINE EVENT PROGRAM

Monique Villa - Moderator CEO, Thomsons Reuters Foundation Monique Villa is CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Founder of TrustLaw and Trust Women. Ranked among the world’s 100 most influential people in Business Ethics by Ethisphere. Since her appointment in 2008, she has transformed the organization, launching a number of programs that leverage the skills and expertise of Thomson Reuters to trigger change and empower people across the world. www.trust.org @monique_villa

Yann Borgstedt Founder and President, The Womanity Foundation Yann Borgstedt is a Swiss entrepreneur who manages a range of businesses in real estate development, relocation and storage in Switzerland, England and France. He graduated in 1993 with a degree in Finance from Babson College, Massachusetts, USA, and later joined (for 6 years) a venture capital fund in London. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) in Geneva and London and is involved in the YPO’s Economic Development Network and Disadvantaged Kids Network. www.womanity.org @forwomanity

Lionel Bodin Senior Manager, Accenture Development Partnerships Lionel Bodin is a Senior Manager of Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP) and leads its operations in Switzerland and France. Lionel has been working with Accenture for nearly 14 years. He started his career by advising various industries on Customer Relationship Management. In 2010, Lionel joined Accenture Development Partnerships and has worked with many nonprofit organizations such as the Federation of the Red Cross/Red Crescent, the Global Fund, Médecins Sans Frontières, UNICEF France and the Womanity Foundation. www.accenture.com/adp @BodinLionel

Rachel Vincent Director of Media and Communications, Nobel Women’s Initiative Rachel Vincent is the Director of Media and Communications for Nobel Women’s Initiative. She joined the team in April 2008. Rachel started her career as a radio journalist, working for six years in Canada, the US and Mexico, including hosting an afternoon radio program in Mexico City. She left journalism to be the head of communications for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, based in Montreal. For the last 16 years, Rachel has turned her in-depth understanding of media towards advising NGO’s and others on how to communicate their messages most effectively through media. www.nobelwomensinitiative.org @NobelWomen

SPEAKERS AT THE WOMANITY AWARD ONLINE EVENT

PROMUNDO (Brazil/US) – INNOVATION PARTNER

Mazeda Hossain Social Epidemiologist, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Mazeda Hossain is a Social Epidemiologist focused on violence and health research in conflict and humanitarian crises. She is senior member of the Gender Violence & Health Centre based within the Social and Mathematical Epidemiology Group at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She has 15 years of experience working with conflict-affected populations and brings a strong multi-disciplinary and applied perspective to the complex challenge of addressing and evaluating violence prevention programming in conflict settings. Mazeda currently leads the LSHTM Gender Violence & Health Centre’s portfolio of research projects related to violence in conflict-affected settings. www.lshtm.ac.uk @LSHTMpress

WOMANITY AWARD WINNERS

Joseph Vess Senior Program Officer, Promundo Joseph Vess is a Senior Program Officer at Promundo, focusing on sexual and gender-based violence prevention and men's engagement in crisis, conflict and post-conflict settings. In addition to directing the international campaign Living Peace: Men Beyond War, he coordinates Promundo’s work on gender-based violence prevention in post-conflict West and Central Africa and violence prevention with young men and boys in the former Yugoslavia.

Promundo aims to promote gender equality and to end gender-based violence by focusing on transforming gender norms and masculinities in the institutions where they are constructed, such as schools and the workplace, in high urban violence and post-conflict settings. It does so by promoting men’s involvement as gender-equitable caregivers and involved fathers, as partners in women’s economic empowerment, as advocates in the prevention of sexual exploitation and violence, and as allies and partners of women in post-conflict peacebuilding and social reconstruction. www.promundo.org.br/en @promundo_us

ABAAD Resource Center for Gender Equality – SCALE UP PARTNER

As the inaugural recipients of the Womanity Award, Promundo and ABAAD will work together to adapt Program H, a comprehensive program to engage young men in changing inequitable and violent norms related to masculinity to the Lebanese setting and beyond, to the broader Middle East and North Africa region. The overarching objectives of Program H are gender equality; positive outcomes related to health and well-being, including improved sexual and reproductive health; reduction in sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS; reduced gender-based violence; and the engagement of youth as agents of change. Program H includes two primary components: group education activities, carried out with small groups of young men; and a lifestyle social marketing campaign, aimed at reinforcing the group education messages and changing the norms and behavior of the entire community. Program H has been implemented in many countries and impact evaluation studies have found that it leads to change in gender norms, which in turn positively impacts outcomes related to sexual behavior, men’s use of violence against women, and men’s participation in child care and domestic activities.

ABAAD views gender equality as an essential condition achieving to sustainable social and economic development in the Middle-East and North Africa region. The association seeks to promote women’s equality and participation through policy development, legal reform, gender mainstreaming, engaging men, eliminating discrimination, and advancing and empowering women to participate effectively and fully in their communities. www.abaadmena.org @AbaadMENA

Ghida Anani Founder, ABAAD Ghida Anani, is a professor at MUBS and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Public Health in the Lebanese University in Beirut. She was a co-founder at KAFA (enough) Violence and Exploitation. Prior to that, Ms. Anani worked as a medical and social worker at the Lebanese Council to Resist Violence against Women (LECORVAW). She has conducted much training on women’s rights and GBV, family violence and child abuse. In June 2011, Ms. Anani founded and is now managing ABAAD (Dimensions)-Resource Center for Gender Equality covering the Middle-East and North Africa region.

The Womanity Foundation is an organization dedicated to empowering women and girls to shape their future and accelerate progress within their communities worldwide. To do so, the Womanity Foundation focuses on initiating, supporting and growing or replicating programs, which promote deep-seated structural change in innovative and effective ways. Flagship programs include 96 NISAA FM, the first commercial women’s radio station and website in the Middle East, which aims to inform and inspire Palestinian women while creating employment and training opportunities;; Womanity’s “School in a Box”, designed to provide Afghan girls with access to quality education; WomenChangeMakers, a fellowship to connect and support the growth of leading social entrepreneurs serving women and their communities in Brazil and India. Womanity undertakes its mission by relying on several key areas: support girls and women’s access to quality education and vocational training; employment creation; revenue generation and professional career opportunities for women; promote avenues that give women a voice in society, politics and governance institutions;; and protect women and girls’ physical and psychological integrity. In an effort to foster its mission, Womanity has recently launched the Womanity Award Project, dedicated to identifying, acknowledging and supporting the scaling up of innovative and effective solutions tackling violence against women.

According to the a recent report published in June 2013 by the WHO in partnership with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, some 35% of all women will experience violence by an intimate or non-partner in their lifetime1. Regretfully, too few resources are dedicated to profiling and spreading effective approaches that curb gender-based violence. To address this problem, the Womanity Award was conceived in 2013 on the premise that the innovative and effective solutions focused on curbing violence against women that have emerged require greater support in order to achieve a broader and systemic impact. The Womanity Award supports the impactful and sustainable replication process of innovative models for prevention of violence against women, creates awareness and promotes engagement among the philanthropic sector and civil society. The pilot project will tackle widespread, cross-cultural violence against women by providing three years of support to the collaboration between Promundo, the Innovation Partner, and 1 http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/violence/9789241564625/en/

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THE WOMANITY AWARD

ABAAD, the Scale-up Partner, to import and adapt Promundo’s successful Program H in Lebanon.

THE SELECTION PROCESS

The joint proposal by each finalist pair of Innovation and Scale-Up Partners are assessed against the following criteria:

Strength of the partners’ profiles, including their organizational capacities, leadership and expertise

Innovativeness of the program selected and evidence for impact Quality of the proposed replication plan, including evaluation of the relevance and

feasibility of the project, its potential impact as well as the nature of the collaboration between the two organizations

Value added potential for Womanity’s support Project’s sustainability.

The Womanity Foundation will introduce the selected Innovation and Scale-Up Partners to its international network and facilitate partnerships and funding opportunities. Both will receive professional services, funding, and relevant expertise for the scaling up of the program. The Womanity Award will support the Innovation and Scale-Up Partners in the replication process by offering capacity- building tailored to their needs and access to relevant expertise, resources and networks of partners.

BENEFITS PACKAGE AND NEXT STEPS OF PARTNERSHIP

The pilot project will address the widespread, cross-cultural issue of violence against women by providing a 3-year Award package to both an Innovation and Scale-up Partners, thus profiling

PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE WOMANITY AWARD

Jo Andrews Executive Director, Ariadne Network Jo Andrews is the Founder and Executive Director of Ariadne Network, the European Human Rights Funders Network. Before setting up Ariadne in 2009, she was the Director of the Sigrid Rausing Trust for four years, which specialises in funding human rights, minority rights and human rights, and later worked at the Institute for Philanthropy in London. www.ariadne-network.eu @AriadneNetwork

WOMANITY AWARD ADVISORY BOARD

Baroness Mary Goudie Member of the British House of Lords Baroness Mary Goudie is a global advocate for the rights of women and children. She is on the board of Vital Voices and is involved in promoting gender equity with both the G8 and G20 as well as chairing the Women Leaders’ Council to Fight Human Trafficking at the United Nations. www.baronessgoudie.com @BaronessGoudie

Margery Kraus Founder and CEO, APCO Worldwide Margery Kraus is founder and chief executive officer of APCO Worldwide, an independent, global communication, stakeholder engagement and business strategy firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. Previously, Kraus helped create and develop the Close Up Foundation, a multi-million dollar educational foundation, where she still serves on its board of directors. www.apcoworldwide.com @MargeryKraus

Ronald Munk Special Cabinet Member, City of Rio de Janeiro Ronald Munk worked for 29 years at Accenture where he developed the business programs in Latin American in the area of utilities, natural resources, health, government and infrastructure. He was also responsible for the sustainability and human resources departments for the region.

Prof. Charlotte Watts Director, Gender, Violence and Health Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Charlotte Watts is Head of the Social and Mathematical Epidemiology Group and founding director of the Gender, Violence and Health Centre, in the Department for Global Health and Development at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Originally trained as a mathematician, with further training in epidemiology, economics and social science methods, she has twenty years experience in international HIV and violence research, bringing a strong multi-disciplinary perspective to the complex challenge of addressing violence against women and HIV in low and middle income countries. www.lshtm.ac.uk @LSHTMpress

WOMANITY AWARD EXTERNAL EXPERTS

Peter Fajans MD MPH Peter recently retired from WHO after nearly 20 years with the Department of Reproductive Health and Research, where he worked on assisting countries over 30 countries to implement the “WHO Strategic Approach to SRH policy and program development”. This work led to the establishment of ExpandNet, a network devoted to promoting the science and practice of scaling up, and he has been a member of its Secretariat since its establishment in 2002. Prior to joining the WHO, Peter worked on nutrition and primary health care program management in Indonesia for ten years and also served as a faculty member at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He currently works with ExpandNet to provide technical support to scaling up of reproductive health and other community development initiatives around the globe. http://www.expandnet.net/

Rachel Vincent Director of Media and Communications, Nobel Women’s Initiative Rachel Vincent is the Director of Media and Communications for Nobel Women’s Initiative. She joined the team in April 2008. Rachel started her career as a radio journalist, working for six years in Canada, the US and Mexico, including hosting an afternoon radio program in Mexico City. She left journalism to be the head of communications for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, based in Montreal. For the last 16 years, Rachel has turned her in-depth understanding of media towards advising NGO’s and others on how to communicate their messages most effectively through media. www.nobelwomensinitiative.org @NobelWomen

Trafigura Foundation Funding Partner Launched in 2007, the Trafigura Foundation supports sustainable development programs in more than 30 countries. The Foundation’s vision is a world where people reach their full potential through self-sustaining solutions, of which they can gradually take full ownership. Helping people help themselves through income-generating activities is central to the Foundation’s mandate and its desire to create a sustainable model for corporate philanthropy. www.trafigurafoundation.org

Accenture Development Partnerships Research and Model Design Partner Accenture Development Partnerships collaborates with organizations working in the international development sector to help deliver innovative solutions that change the way people work and live. Its award-winning business model enables Accenture’s core capabilities—its best people and strategic business, technology and project management expertise—to be made available to clients in the international development sector on a not-for-profit basis. www.accenture.com/adp @Accenture

Zigla Monitoring & Evaluation Partner ZIGLA specializes in M&E, strategic social investment and knowledge management. We have compiled more than 10 years of experience in product development as well as services geared towards international cooperation, businesses, governments, foundations and social organizations. www.ziglaconsultores.com @ziglaonline

Women Online Communication Partner Women Online is a boutique digital PR and marketing firm run by pioneers in engaging women through social media. We help brands and organizations looking to reach women and inspire them to create social change and champion the issues they care about. www.wearewomenonline.com @JenVento - @morraam - @kaitlyndowling

Sciences Po Paris – Students’ Team Project Academic Partner Between October 2013 and April 2014, 6 students from Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and Sciences Po Masters in European Affairs have supported Womanity in researching key concepts related to the Womanity award (such as VAW prevention, innovation, collaboration or scale-up) in order to improve the project design. www.sciencespo.fr/projets-collectifs/en

Morgane Briet Ania Dulnik

Leonor du Jeu Claire Laurent

Anna-Carla Ostmeier Irene Pita