Civil society speaker selected for High-level Thematic Debate

Received frrom UN-NGLS:

Civil society speaker selected for the 9-10 February UN President of the General Assembly's High-level Thematic Debate on Means of Implementation for a Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda 

Dear Colleagues,

At the request of the Office of the President of the General Assembly (OPGA), the  UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) conducted an open process to obtain nominations for a civil society speaker in the President of the General Assembly's High-level Thematic Debate on Means of Implementation for a Transformative Post-2015 Development Agenda. This event will take place at UN Headquarters in New York on 9-10 February. 

The President of the General Assembly, H.E. Sam K. Kutesa, has selected the following civil society representative to speak during the event's panel discussion on "The Role of Parliaments, City and Local Authorities in the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda" on 10 February: 

Ms. Ana Falu of Red Mujer y Habitat (Women and Habitat Network)

Ana Falú is one of the founders of the Women and Habitat Network, and also founded the Argentinean NGO Centro Investigación y Servicios de Promoción del Hábitat (CISCSA). She is an Argentinean architect and professor at the National University of Argentina in Cordoba, and Director of the Research Institute on Housing and Habitat. She is a renowned expert in gender issues related to housing and urban policies. Since the mid-1980s she has been directing research programmes and belongs to the National Council of Technology and Scientific Research of Argentina. Her current research interests include social housing policies and urban sociology; conception, design and evaluation of development programmes; a gender-focused approach to housing and urban development policies and urban violence and violence against women in cities, in both the public and private spheres. 

Complete information about the event, including its concept note, is available here:

http://www.un.org/pga/090215_hl-debate-means-implementation-transformative-post-2015-development-agenda/

You can watch the event live via web cast at:  http://webtv.un.org/ 

A video of this web cast will also be available for viewing afterward at the same link, in the archive.

Best regards,

UN-NGLS