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The Womanity Award
Announcement of Laureates and Special Online Forum
May 20, 2014 – 4.00 - 5.00 PM UTC
Webcast live @ www.womanity.org
@forWomanity
#WomanityAward
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ONLINE EVENT PROGRAM
 Welcome address by Antonella Notari Vischer, Executive Director, the Womanity
Foundation, and, Monique Villa, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation (event
moderator)
 Introduction to the Womanity Award - Yann Borgstedt, Founder and President of
The Womanity Foundation, and Lionel Bodin, Senior Manager, Accenture Development
Partnerships (ADP)
 Announcement of the Womanity Award Laureates 2014 - Yann Borgstedt
 Interview with the Laureates - Monique Villa
 Panel discussion with experts and Womanity Award Laureates, moderated by
Monique Villa, and live questions from the public, featuring:
- Lionel Bodin
- Rachel Vincent, Director of Media and Communications, Nobel Women’s Initiative
- Mazeda Hossain, Social Epidemiologist, London School of Hygiene &
Tropical Medicine
 Conclusion – Antonella Notari Vischer
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SPEAKERS AT THE WOMANITY AWARD ONLINE EVENT
Monique Villa - Moderator
CEO, Thomsons Reuters Foundation
Monique Villa is CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Founder of
TrustLaw and Trust Women. Ranked among the world’s 100 most influential
people in Business Ethics by Ethisphere. Since her appointment in 2008, she
has transformed the organization, launching a number of programs that
leverage the skills and expertise of Thomson Reuters to trigger change and
empower people across the world. www.trust.org @monique_villa
Yann Borgstedt
Founder and President, The Womanity Foundation
Yann Borgstedt is a Swiss entrepreneur who manages a range of businesses in
real estate development, relocation and storage in Switzerland, England and
France. He graduated in 1993 with a degree in Finance from Babson College,
Massachusetts, USA, and later joined (for 6 years) a venture capital fund in
London. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) in Geneva
and London and is involved in the YPO’s Economic Development Network and
Disadvantaged Kids Network. www.womanity.org @forwomanity
Lionel Bodin
Senior Manager, Accenture Development Partnerships
Lionel Bodin is a Senior Manager of Accenture Development Partnerships
(ADP) and leads its operations in Switzerland and France. Lionel has been
working with Accenture for nearly 14 years. He started his career by advising
various industries on Customer Relationship Management. In 2010, Lionel
joined Accenture Development Partnerships and has worked with many
nonprofit organizations such as the Federation of the Red Cross/Red Crescent,
the Global Fund, Médecins Sans Frontières, UNICEF France and the Womanity
Foundation. www.accenture.com/adp @BodinLionel
Rachel Vincent
Director of Media and Communications, Nobel Women’s Initiative
Rachel Vincent is the Director of Media and Communications for Nobel
Women’s Initiative. She joined the team in April 2008. Rachel started her
career as a radio journalist, working for six years in Canada, the US and
Mexico, including hosting an afternoon radio program in Mexico City. She left
journalism to be the head of communications for the Commission for
Environmental Cooperation, based in Montreal. For the last 16 years, Rachel
has turned her in-depth understanding of media towards advising NGO’s and
others on how to communicate their messages most effectively through media.
www.nobelwomensinitiative.org @NobelWomen
Mazeda Hossain
Social Epidemiologist, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Mazeda Hossain is a Social Epidemiologist focused on violence and health
research in conflict and humanitarian crises. She is senior member of the
Gender Violence & Health Centre based within the Social and Mathematical
Epidemiology Group at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
(LSHTM). She has 15 years of experience working with conflict-affected
populations and brings a strong multi-disciplinary and applied perspective to
the complex challenge of addressing and evaluating violence prevention
programming in conflict settings. Mazeda currently leads the LSHTM Gender
Violence & Health Centre’s portfolio of research projects related to violence in
conflict-affected settings. www.lshtm.ac.uk @LSHTMpress
WOMANITY AWARD WINNERS
PROMUNDO (Brazil/US) – INNOVATION PARTNER
Promundo aims to promote gender equality and to end gender-based violence
by focusing on transforming gender norms and masculinities in the institutions
where they are constructed, such as schools and the workplace, in high urban
violence and post-conflict settings. It does so by promoting men’s involvement
as gender-equitable caregivers and involved fathers, as partners in women’s
economic empowerment, as advocates in the prevention of sexual exploitation
and violence, and as allies and partners of women in post-conflict
peacebuilding and social reconstruction.
www.promundo.org.br/en @promundo_us
Joseph Vess
Senior Program Officer, Promundo
Joseph Vess is a Senior Program Officer at Promundo, focusing on sexual and
gender-based violence prevention and men's engagement in crisis, conflict and
post-conflict settings. In addition to directing the international campaign Living
Peace: Men Beyond War, he coordinates Promundo’s work on gender-based
violence prevention in post-conflict West and Central Africa and violence
prevention with young men and boys in the former Yugoslavia.
ABAAD Resource Center for Gender Equality – SCALE UP PARTNER
ABAAD views gender equality as an essential condition achieving to sustainable
social and economic development in the Middle-East and North Africa region.
The association seeks to promote women’s equality and participation through
policy development, legal reform, gender mainstreaming, engaging men,
eliminating discrimination, and advancing and empowering women to
participate effectively and fully in their communities.
www.abaadmena.org @AbaadMENA
Ghida Anani
Founder, ABAAD
Ghida Anani, is a professor at MUBS and an assistant professor at the Faculty
of Public Health in the Lebanese University in Beirut. She was a co-founder at
KAFA (enough) Violence and Exploitation. Prior to that, Ms. Anani worked as
a medical and social worker at the Lebanese Council to Resist Violence against
Women (LECORVAW). She has conducted much training on women’s rights
and GBV, family violence and child abuse. In June 2011, Ms. Anani founded
and is now managing ABAAD (Dimensions)-Resource Center for Gender
Equality covering the Middle-East and North Africa region.
As the inaugural recipients of the Womanity Award, Promundo and ABAAD will work together
to adapt Program H, a comprehensive program to engage young men in changing
inequitable and violent norms related to masculinity to the Lebanese setting and beyond, to
the broader Middle East and North Africa region.
The overarching objectives of Program H are gender equality; positive outcomes related to
health and well-being, including improved sexual and reproductive health; reduction in
sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS; reduced gender-based violence; and the
engagement of youth as agents of change. Program H includes two primary components:
group education activities, carried out with small groups of young men; and a lifestyle social
marketing campaign, aimed at reinforcing the group education messages and changing the
norms and behavior of the entire community.
Program H has been implemented in many countries and impact evaluation studies have
found that it leads to change in gender norms, which in turn positively impacts outcomes
related to sexual behavior, men’s use of violence against women, and men’s participation
in child care and domestic activities.
THE WOMANITY FOUNDATION
www.womanity.org
The Womanity Foundation is an organization dedicated to empowering women and girls to
shape their future and accelerate progress within their communities worldwide. To do so,
the Womanity Foundation focuses on initiating, supporting and growing or replicating
programs, which promote deep-seated structural change in innovative and effective ways.
Flagship programs include 96 NISAA FM, the first commercial women’s radio station and
website in the Middle East, which aims to inform and inspire Palestinian women while
creating employment and training opportunities; Womanity’s “School in a Box”, designed to
provide Afghan girls with access to quality education; WomenChangeMakers, a fellowship
to connect and support the growth of leading social entrepreneurs serving women and their
communities in Brazil and India.
Womanity undertakes its mission by relying on several key areas: support girls and women’s
access to quality education and vocational training; employment creation; revenue
generation and professional career opportunities for women; promote avenues that give
women a voice in society, politics and governance institutions; and protect women and girls’
physical and psychological integrity.
In an effort to foster its mission, Womanity has recently launched the Womanity Award
Project, dedicated to identifying, acknowledging and supporting the scaling up of innovative
and effective solutions tackling violence against women.
THE WOMANITY AWARD
According to the a recent report published in June 2013 by the WHO in partnership with
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, some 35% of all women will experience
violence by an intimate or non-partner in their lifetime1. Regretfully, too few resources are
dedicated to profiling and spreading effective approaches that curb gender-based violence.
To address this problem, the Womanity Award was conceived in 2013 on the premise that
the innovative and effective solutions focused on curbing violence against women that have
emerged require greater support in order to achieve a broader and systemic impact. The
Womanity Award supports the impactful and sustainable replication process of innovative
models for prevention of violence against women, creates awareness and promotes
engagement among the philanthropic sector and civil society.
The pilot project will tackle widespread, cross-cultural violence against women by providing
three years of support to the collaboration between Promundo, the Innovation Partner, and
1
http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/violence/9789241564625/en/
ABAAD, the Scale-up Partner, to import and adapt Promundo’s successful Program H in
Lebanon.
THE SELECTION PROCESS
The joint proposal by each finalist pair of Innovation and Scale-Up Partners are assessed
against the following criteria:
 Strength of the partners’ profiles, including their organizational capacities,
leadership and expertise
 Innovativeness of the program selected and evidence for impact
 Quality of the proposed replication plan, including evaluation of the relevance and
feasibility of the project, its potential impact as well as the nature of the collaboration
between the two organizations
 Value added potential for Womanity’s support
 Project’s sustainability.
BENEFITS PACKAGE AND NEXT STEPS OF PARTNERSHIP
The Womanity Foundation will introduce the selected Innovation and Scale-Up Partners to
its international network and facilitate partnerships and funding opportunities. Both will
receive professional services, funding, and relevant expertise for the scaling up of the
program. The Womanity Award will support the Innovation and Scale-Up Partners in the
replication process by offering capacity- building tailored to their needs and access to
relevant expertise, resources and networks of partners.
PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE WOMANITY AWARD
The pilot project will address the widespread, cross-cultural issue of violence against women
by providing a 3-year Award package to both an Innovation and Scale-up Partners, thus
profiling
WOMANITY AWARD ADVISORY BOARD
Jo Andrews
Executive Director, Ariadne Network
Jo Andrews is the Founder and Executive Director of Ariadne Network, the
European Human Rights Funders Network. Before setting up Ariadne in 2009,
she was the Director of the Sigrid Rausing Trust for four years, which
specialises in funding human rights, minority rights and human rights, and
later worked at the Institute for Philanthropy in London.
www.ariadne-network.eu @AriadneNetwork
Baroness Mary Goudie
Member of the British House of Lords
Baroness Mary Goudie is a global advocate for the rights of women and
children. She is on the board of Vital Voices and is involved in promoting
gender equity with both the G8 and G20 as well as chairing the Women
Leaders’ Council to Fight Human Trafficking at the United Nations.
www.baronessgoudie.com @BaronessGoudie
Margery Kraus
Founder and CEO, APCO Worldwide
Margery Kraus is founder and chief executive officer of APCO Worldwide, an
independent, global communication, stakeholder engagement and business
strategy firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. Previously, Kraus helped
create and develop the Close Up Foundation, a multi-million dollar educational
foundation, where she still serves on its board of directors.
www.apcoworldwide.com @MargeryKraus
Ronald Munk
Special Cabinet Member, City of Rio de Janeiro
Ronald Munk worked for 29 years at Accenture where he developed the
business programs in Latin American in the area of utilities, natural resources,
health, government and infrastructure. He was also responsible for the
sustainability and human resources departments for the region.
Prof. Charlotte Watts
Director, Gender, Violence and Health Centre, London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Charlotte Watts is Head of the Social and Mathematical Epidemiology Group
and founding director of the Gender, Violence and Health Centre, in the
Department for Global Health and Development at the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Originally trained as a mathematician, with
further training in epidemiology, economics and social science methods, she
has twenty years experience in international HIV and violence research,
bringing a strong multi-disciplinary perspective to the complex challenge of
addressing violence against women and HIV in low and middle income
countries. www.lshtm.ac.uk @LSHTMpress
WOMANITY AWARD EXTERNAL EXPERTS
Peter Fajans
MD MPH
Peter recently retired from WHO after nearly 20 years with the Department of
Reproductive Health and Research, where he worked on assisting countries
over 30 countries to implement the “WHO Strategic Approach to SRH policy
and program development”. This work led to the establishment of ExpandNet,
a network devoted to promoting the science and practice of scaling up, and
he has been a member of its Secretariat since its establishment in 2002. Prior
to joining the WHO, Peter worked on nutrition and primary health care
program management in Indonesia for ten years and also served as a faculty
member at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He currently
works with ExpandNet to provide technical support to scaling up of
reproductive health and other community development initiatives around the
globe. http://www.expandnet.net/
Rachel Vincent
Director of Media and Communications, Nobel Women’s Initiative
Rachel Vincent is the Director of Media and Communications for Nobel
Women’s Initiative. She joined the team in April 2008. Rachel started her
career as a radio journalist, working for six years in Canada, the US and
Mexico, including hosting an afternoon radio program in Mexico City. She left
journalism to be the head of communications for the Commission for
Environmental Cooperation, based in Montreal. For the last 16 years, Rachel
has turned her in-depth understanding of media towards advising NGO’s and
others on how to communicate their messages most effectively through media.
www.nobelwomensinitiative.org @NobelWomen
Trafigura Foundation
Funding Partner
Launched in 2007, the Trafigura Foundation supports sustainable development
programs in more than 30 countries. The Foundation’s vision is a world where
people reach their full potential through self-sustaining solutions, of which they
can gradually take full ownership. Helping people help themselves through
income-generating activities is central to the Foundation’s mandate and its
desire to create a sustainable model for corporate philanthropy.
www.trafigurafoundation.org
Accenture Development Partnerships
Research and Model Design Partner
Accenture Development Partnerships collaborates with organizations working
in the international development sector to help deliver innovative solutions
that change the way people work and live. Its award-winning business model
enables Accenture’s core capabilities—its best people and strategic business,
technology and project management expertise—to be made available to clients
in the international development sector on a not-for-profit basis.
www.accenture.com/adp @Accenture
Zigla
Monitoring & Evaluation Partner
ZIGLA specializes in M&E, strategic social investment and knowledge
management. We have compiled more than 10 years of experience in product
development as well as services geared towards international cooperation,
businesses, governments, foundations and social organizations.
www.ziglaconsultores.com @ziglaonline
Women Online
Communication Partner
Women Online is a boutique digital PR and marketing firm run by pioneers in
engaging women through social media. We help brands and organizations
looking to reach women and inspire them to create social change and
champion the issues they care about.
www.wearewomenonline.com
@JenVento - @morraam - @kaitlyndowling
Sciences Po Paris – Students’ Team Project
Morgane Briet
Ania Dulnik
Leonor du Jeu
Claire Laurent
Anna-Carla Ostmeier
Irene Pita
Academic Partner
Between October 2013 and April 2014, 6 students from Paris School of
International Affairs (PSIA) and Sciences Po Masters in European Affairs have
supported Womanity in researching key concepts related to the Womanity
award (such as VAW prevention, innovation, collaboration or scale-up) in order
to improve the project design. www.sciencespo.fr/projets-collectifs/en