Events / July 17, 2018
Millennium Hilton Hotel - Manhattan Conference Room at 3 pm

Raised Hands - People, Cities and WASH: Global Alliance for Social and Behaviour Change - Informed and Engaged Societies

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Peter Burgess

Raised Hands - People, Cities and WASH: Global Alliance for Social and Behaviour Change - Informed and Engaged Societies

SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities // SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals // SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Date: Jul 17 2018 Location: New York, NY, United States

EVENT Evidence, data and strategic insights on engaging citizens for effective priority setting and action on SDG 11 (Cities) and SDG 6 (Water and Sanitation)

Concept Note Flyer for your communications on this event Registration link

DATE Tuesday 17 July, 2018 From 3:00pm to 5:00pm

VENUE Millennium Hilton Hotel - Manhattan Conference Room East 44th St. between 1st and 2nd Ave. New York, NY

PURPOSE

Share the informed and engaged societies strategies that have reduced poverty levels by 86% and murder levels by 85% in the city of Medellín, Colombia.

Share UNICEF experience with participatory behavior change strategies to mobilize communities to build their own toilets and stop open defecation that led to increased access to toilets and improved child growth in the Mali context1 as well as recent findings on the importance of fidelity and adherence for health impacts in WASH in school interventions2.

Discuss and debate enhancing the role and contribution of social change, behavior change, informed and engaged societies strategies for more effective and quicker progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

FOCUS

Accelerated progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals requires: demonstrated impact as the basis for agreeing effective strategies and understanding key challenges; proven initiatives that show a way forward; and the ability to engage people across all populations as key actors (perhaps the key actors) for progress.

CITIES (SDG 11)

Medellín provides an outstanding impact and learning example. The achievements include: 86% reduction in poverty; and, 95% reduction in murders. How this city - people in their barrios, business, civil society, municipal, state and national government policies and programmes – worked in difficult circumstances and a sensitive context to create these achievements is a compelling and instructive story. From his different vantage points – planning the initial strategy, running one of Colombia's largest businesses, strategic planning of transport infrastructure, development planning in some of the most difficult contexts and being active in the Colombian political process - Federico Restrepo brings a unique insight into what worked and why.

WATER AND SANITATION (SDG 6)

The world made gigantic strides in water and sanitation in the last 25 years. During the MDG period it was estimated that the use of improved drinking water sources rose from 76% to 91%, while the use of improved sanitation facilities rose from 54% to 68%3. But even with these gains, there remains unfinished business. It is reported by the WHO and UNICEF that 892 million people still practice open defecation and 844 million people still lacked even a basic drinking war service. For the first time, handwashing was being reported, but data was only available from 70 countries and was not too promising with availability of soap and water as low as 15% in sub-Saharan Africa and at best 76% in Western Asia4. Lessons on what worked, what didn't work and the critical role of social and behavior change approaches in UNICEF's WASH programmes will be highlighted. How these lessons are shaping UNICEF programming in the strategic plan will be shared through country examples in Mali, Philippines and Guatemala.

PARTNERSHIPS (SDG 17)

All of this work has taken place through extensive partnerships. The Global Alliance is itself a recent example of partnership building.

HOSTS

UNICEF
Colombia Mission to The United Nations
Global Alliance for Social and Behaviour Change - Informed and Engaged Societies

OPENING REMARKS

EMBAJADOR FRANCISCO GONZÁLEZ Deputy Permanent Representative of Colombia to the UN TED CHAIBAN Director of Programmes - UNICEF New York

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

MR. FEDERICO RESTREPO MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA Formerly Director of Planning for City of Medellin (2004-2007) and CEO of the Empresas Publicas de Medellín - EPM (2008-2011). He is presently manager of the Autopistas de La Prosperidad (road infrastructure project) for the Government of Colombia; Director of the Integral Development Plan for the Urabá Zone, in the Caribbean coast of Colombia; and adviser for the replication of the experience of the economic and social transformation of Medellín, Antioquia and in other regions of Colombia and Latin America political process. Federico Restrepo brings a unique insight into what worked and why.

MICHAEL EMERSON GNILO THE PHILIPPINES/USA A WASH Specialist based in NYHQ and responsible for supporting UNICEF's water, sanitation and hygiene programmes globally. Specifically, he supports country offices on Community Approaches to Total Sanitation. A psychologist and medical doctor by training, he has previously worked for WHO, Médecins Sans Frontières, and the academe. He has been working with UNICEF for 8 years across the areas of WASH, Health, Nutrition and Communication for Development with a specific focus on systems building, community engagement, social and behavior change communication.

OTHER CONTRIBUTORS Sohini Battacharya (Breakthrough), James Deane (BBC Media Action), Lisa Hilmi (CORE Group) and Doug Storey (Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs).

AUDIENCE/PARTICIPANTS The event is open to anyone within governments, the UN community, the civil society and foundation sectors with an interest in learning effective ways to transform cities (SDG 11) and improve water and sanitation status (SDG 6) through social change, behavior change, informed and engaged societies.

Please note that this event is open to all. It is not necessary to be registered for the High-Level Political Forum.

AGENDA Tuesday July 17th Open presentation 03:00pm - 05:00 pm

WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS [3 minutes] Carlos Morales (Colombia Ambassador to the UN) and Ted Chaiban (Director of Programmes - UNICEF New York UNICEF)

OUTLINE OF EVENT AND OVERALL FACILITATION [3 minutes] Warren Feek (The Communication Initiative)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1: FEDERICO RESTREPO [25 minutes] Engaged societies and public spaces - the ongoing transformation of Medellin through communication and community engagement - How?

QUESTIONS, DEBATE AND DISCUSSION [15 minutes] Facilitator: James Deane (BBC Media Action)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2: MICHAEL EMERSON GNILO [25 minutes] Social change and behavior change in water and sanitation: Progress and Challenges

QUESTIONS, DEBATE AND DISCUSSION [15 minutes] Facilitator: Rafael Obregon (UNICEF)

STRATEGIC CONCLUSIONS FROM THE PRESENTATIONS AND DIALOGUE THAT ENSUED [10 minutes] Facilitator: Doug Storey (Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs)

INTRODUCTION TO THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR SOCIAL AND BEHAVIOUR CHANGE - INFORMED AND ENGAGED SOCIETIES [10 minutes] Sohini Battacharya (Breakthrough) and Rafael Obregon (UNICEF)

CLARIFICATION QUESTIONS [5 minutes] Facilitator: Lisa Hilmi (CORE Group)

CLOSING AND THANK YOU [5 minutes] Carlos Morales (Colombia Ambassador to the UN) and Ted Chaiban (Director of Programmes – UNICEF New York)

Pickering, A. J., Djebbari, H., Lopez, C., Coulibaly, M. & Laura Alzua, M. Effect of a community-led sanitation intervention on child diarrhoea and child growth in rural Mali: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Lancet Glob. Heal. 3, e701–e711 (2015).

Policy Briefing. A comprehensive WASH in schools intervention reduced pupil diarrhea, and absence only when fidelity was high. (2017).

Progress on sanitation and drinking water – 2015 update and MDG assessment; Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 2015.

Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene: 2017 update and SDG baselines. Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 2017. Raised Hands - People Cities, Water - Concept Note Open PDF ... Cities-Water-Concept-Note-July17-2018

Raised Hands - People Cities, Water - Flyer
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About Warren Feek

Warren Feek Name: Warren Feek Organisation: The Communication Initiative
Role: Executive Director
Country: New Zealand

Warren Feek is Executive Director of The Communication Initiative Partnership, a network of 90,000 people using media and communication strategies to address priority local, national and international Development issues. That network has shared 36,000 knowledge summaries (link is for English only) and engaged in review, dialogue and debate for the purpose of advancing the scale, quality and impact of their work. The CI focus is across all Development issues, from Democracy and Governance to HIV/AIDS; the full spectrum of communication strategies, from entertainment-education to community engagement; and the range of media, from digital to local cultural forms. The CI has also been involved in research - most recently an extensive (3,500 interviews) look at the social dynamics that condition decision-making on health issues within households in some of the economically poorest communities in Northern Nigeria. Prior to conceiving and guiding The Communication Initiative, Warren led at UNICEF HQ in New York developing and implementing Health and HIV/AIDS communication strategies for those often very sensitive and difficult issues. He was recruited to UNICEF based on his work at The Commonwealth Secretariat at a time that organisation was focused on ending apartheid in South Africa and the transition to a democratic government. A New Zealander he commenced his work life designing and managing a mini-trail bike programme for the siblings of criminal offenders. Warren has a BA (Hons) in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Victoria in New Zealand where his post–grad focused on the decision of the Trade Union movement to create the Labour Party. Given the social dynamics in New Zealand at the time he left academia to be involved in a couple of social movements. He lives and works in Victoria BC, Canada with his partner and 3 children.

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