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International Conference on
Gender, Science and Technology for Sustainable Development:
Looking Ahead to the Next 10 Years
Key Themes and Questions
- Review of UN and other international policy, conferences and agreements pertaining to gender, S&T for sustainable development.
- Group update on current gender, science and technology organizations and activities:
- Past activities related to gender, S&T for sustinable development
- Assessments of successes, strengths and weaknesses and lessons learned from past programmes
- Planned activities
- Assessment of the Gender Advisory Board Transformative Action Areas:
- Are they still the key issues for national and international policy?
- Are there issues which need to be added?
- Are some issues no longer relevant?
- Are these issues correctly articulated for the current global situation?
- Moving Forward:
- What are options and extensions beyond national engagement to move forward with transformative actions?
- How best to develop partnerships, as appropriate, with other UN agencies, NGOs, regional bodies, etc. that might benefit from the expertise of the GAB in gender, S&T and development?
- What new groups and sectors do we need to reach out to for collaboration and analysis?
- How do we broaden the base of those involved in these efforts to include younger scholars, persons from all parts of the world and greater numbers of men?
- How can the arguments and issues be reframed, how can new collaborations be formed and a joint plan of action articulated to readjust the trajectory of current initiatives?
- What is our Action Plan or Agenda for the Future?