List of Participants

Best of . . . .
Impressions of the conference

Interviews with participants
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German Minister on the Forum
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About the Forum - Interviews with the Board of Chairs
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Audio Files
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Pictures of the Forum

Pictures of the Press Conference

Global Partners in Action is facilitated by a Steering Group, which oversees the development of the conference, by setting goals and objectives for the conference, proposing the programme, guiding the selection criteria for participants and speakers, considering a consultation process and a media strategy. The members of the Steering Group are:

• Ms Gill Greer (International Planned Parenthood Federation-IPPF), Chair
• Ms Katie Chau (Youth Coalition), Co-Chair
• Ms Catherina Hinz (German Foundation for World Population-DSW), Co-Chair
• Ms Sivananthi Thanenthiran (Asian Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) Malaysia), Co-Chair (Asia and the Pacific)
• Ms Soukeina Bouraoui, (Centre of Arab Women for Training & Research-CAWTAR) (Arab States)
• Mr Gunstan Chola (Africa Youth and Adolescent Network on Population and Development-Afri YAN) (Africa)
• Ms Amy Coen (Population Action International-PAI)
• Ms Beth Fredrick ("ex-officio")
• Ms Viviana Maldonado Posso (acdemocracia) (Latin America and the Caribbean)
• Ms Marianne Haslegrave (Commonwealth Medical Trust-Commat)
• Mr Ulrich Knobloch (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit-GTZ)
• Ms Elena Sajina (Family Planning Association of Moldova (SPFM) (Eastern Europe and Central Asia)
• Mr Joachim Schmitt (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development-BMZ)
• Ms Ann Starrs (Family Care International-FCI)
• Ms Hilkka Vuorenmaa (Väestöliitto, Chair of EuroNGOs)
• Mr Stan Bernstein (UNFPA)
• Ms Ute Baumgärtel (Conference Secretariat / GTZ AgenZ)
• Ms Paula Samuels (Jamaican Network of People Living with HIV)
• Ms Sylvia Estrada Claudio (Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights)
• Ms Codou Bop (Groupe de Recherche Femmes et Lois au Sénégal (GREFELS)
• Ms Nirvana Gónzales Rosa Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network (LACWHN)
• Ms Denise Hirao (International Women's Health Coalition)

Conference Secretariat:
Ute Baumgärtel (GTZ AgenZ), Noemi Espinoza (UNFPA)
Contact: ngo-forum-sec[at]gtz.de