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Moderator: Raphael Obonyo
Policy Specialist and Youth AdvocateCo-founder and Director of the Youth Congress
Former member of UN-Habitat Youth Advisory Board
Presenter: Christian Benimana
Socially Focused Architect Founder and Director of African Design Center
Rwanda Country Programs Director of MASS Design Group
Speaker: Gideon Keter
Member of Parliament, Chairman of Jubilee Youth League President and Founder of Youth Senate Kenya
Speaker: Sanda Ojiambo
Social Investment Professional
Head of Corporate Responsibility, Safaricom
Speaker: Isaac Kaka Muasa
Youth Activist and Advocate
Leader of Mathare Environmental Conservation Youth Group
Speaker: Shamoy Hajare
Founder of the Jamaica School for Social Entrepreneurship Co-founder of the Youth Entrepreneurship Project Member of Secret Birds Caribbean
2016 Commonwealth Young Person of the Year- Caribbean and Canada region
Speaker: Nafula Wafula
Vice Chairperson for Policy and Advocacy of Commonwealth Youth CouncilPrograms Director of Brydges Centre.
Tentative Event Programme
10 August 2018 (Gigiri Complex, Nairobi)
08:00am - 9:30am: Registration of participants (1h and 30 mins)
09:30am –10:00am: Assemble in Conference Room 4 (30 mins)
10:00am –10:10am: Welcoming Remarks – H.E. Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif, UN-Habitat Executive Director (10 mins)
10:10am –10:15am: Video message from H.E. Mr. António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations (5 mins)
10:20am –10:25am: Remarks by DESA (5 mins) (TBD)
10:25am –10:30am: Remarks by H.E. Ms. Sara Hradecky, Ambassador of Canada to the United Nations (TBC) (5 mins)
10:30am –10:35am: Remarks by H.E. Dr. Mohamed Abdulghani Khayat, Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations (TBC) (5 mins)
10:35am –10:40am: Opening of discussion by Raphael Obonyo, Director of the Youth Congress (5 mins)
10:40am –10:50am: Presentation by Christian Benimana, African Design Center (10 mins)
10:50 am –11:45am: Interactive discussion (55 mins)
- Civic spaces, Gideon Keter, Member of Parliament, Kenya Young Parliamentarians
- Digital spaces, Sanda Ojiambo, Head of Corporate Responsibility Safaricom
- Public spaces, Isaac 'Kaka' Muasa, Mathare Environmental Conservation Youth Group Leader and Shamoy Hajare, Jamaica School for Social Entrepreneurship
- Physical spaces, Faith Nafula Wafula, Commonwealth Youth Council
11:45am – 12:05pm: Q&A (20 mins)
12:05pm – 12:15pm: Closing remarks by United Nations Inter-Agency Network for Youth Development Co-Chairs (10 mins)
12:15pm – 2:30pm: Refreshments