Register now: RCF Side Event at the HLM on HIV/AIDS
The Robert Carr Fund is pleased to invite you to a virtual round table side event at the upcoming High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS on Thursday 10th June at 08.30 EST (New York Time).
This event will mark the beginning of a reflection of 10 years of the Robert Carr Fund, a unique funding mechanism due to its explicit mandate to provide core funding to global and regional civil society and community led networks. Now more than ever, the networks continued survival, growth, success, and sustainability is vital to the successful HIV response in view of the COVID-19 pandemic impact, shrinking civic space and the critical need for reducing new HIV infections among inadequately served populations.
The side event will look back at the legacy of the Fund and the networks it has supported. It will celebrate the role of civil society in driving the HIV response and will offer an opportunity for partners to recommit to community driven responses and share their vision for the future.
| 08.30 – 08.35 | OPENING |
| 08.35 – 08.40 | WELCOME
CRAIG MCCLURE, Chair, RCF International Steering Committee |
| 08.40 – 08.45 | OPENING REMARKS
PETER SANDS, Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria SHANNON HADER, Deputy Executive Director, UNAIDS |
| 08.45 – 09.05 | PANEL 1: LOOKING BACK AT THE LEGACY OF THE ROBERT CARR FUND
RCF FOUNDING MEMBERS: KATE THOMSON, Head of the Community, Rights and Gender Department at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and co-founder of the Robert Carr Fund SIGRUN MØGEDAL, former Norwegian Ambassador for AIDS and Global Health Initiatives and co-founder of the Robert Carr Fund PETER VAN ROOIJEN, Joep Lange Institute and co-founder Robert Carr Fund
RCF GRANTEE SPEAKERS: RAINE CORTES, Senior Project Manager, Asia Pacific Transgender Network ANTON BASENKO, Global Policy and Advocacy Coordinator, International Network of People who Use Drugs FELICITA HIKUAM, Director, AIDS and Rights Alliance for southern Africa
CLOSING WORDS PETER CARR, father of Robert Carr |
| 09.05 – 09.35 | PANEL 2: LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT STAGE OF THE HIV RESPONSE
REPRESENTATIVE OF PEPFAR (TBC) MR DAG-INGE ULSTEIN, Minister of International Development, Government of Norway WENDY MORTON MP, FCDO Minister for the European Neighbourhood and the Americas, introduced by PROFESSOR CHARLOTTE WATTS, FCDO Chief Scientific Adviser & Director for Research and Evidence Directorate DR EMILIO EMINI, Global Director, TB & HIV Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation KITTY VAN DER HEIJDEN, DGIS & JORIS JURRIËNS, Head of Department Health and HIV/AIDS Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands TIAN JOHNSON, Civil Society Observer, RCF International Steering Committee |
| 09.35 – 09.40 | CLOSING REMARKS:
SUJATHA RAO, Vice Chair, RCF International Steering Committee |
| 09.40 – 09.45 | CLOSING |