BPW International

June 19, 2011 at the Hotel Quirinale (Via Nazionale 7 - 00184 Roma), special Meeting to discuss: Commission on the Status of Woman, 56th session, (CSW56) in New York 2012 and Side Event at FAO meeting in October 2011 in Rome.

Attendees Present:
Huguette Akplogan Dossa – 1st Vice President, UN (2011-2014)
Anastasia Victoria Safarian – Young BPW International Representative (2011-2014)
Annarosa Colangelo – BPW Rome President (2008-2011)
Excused:
Cristina Gorajski Visconti – FAO Representative for BPWI,
Update about the side event “Women in Agriculture” hosted at FAO on June 30, 2011, Report written by Anastasia was submitted to Huguette by Cristina to do the link to CSW 56.

About Commission on the Status of Women 56 (27 February – 9 March, 2012), the Priority theme: The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges.

The Review theme: Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women (agreed conclusions from the fifty-second session).
BPW will organise Side Event during the Rural Women Day/FAO Day Celebration in October 2011 to prepare for CSW 56. It also BPW strategy to work closely with UN Agency like FAO, and the result of this event in Rome can help BPW to host a workshop or parallel event with UN agencies during the CSW 56 as we do each year.

A questionnaire will be created to distribute to BPW members to collect informations to prepare our side events during the Rural Women Day/FAO Day Celebration, to connect BPW’s initiatives with WEPs and to connect BPW’s initiatives to CSW 56 theme.
We discussed further possibilities to award scholarships for the Best Projects to attend CSW 56 and share their projects in person.

Huguette Akplogan Dossa
BPW International 1st Vice President, UN (2011-2014)