Renewal: A New Era for International Development Professionals
2016 Annual Conference, May 9 - 10, 2016
Hellenic Meeting & Reception Centre, 1315 Prince of Wales Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
| Session: | Ensuring Effective SDG Implementation through Multi-Stakeholder Engagement |
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Deirdre Kent, Director General, International Development Policy, Global Affairs Canada Chris Eaton, Executive Director, World University Service of Canada Chris Enns, International Development Officer, Bow Valley College Michael Wodzicki, Director, Program Development, Federation of Canadian Municipalities |
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Central to implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a commitment to effectively draw on the efforts of all actors engaged in sustainable development. The 2030 Agenda calls for multi-stakeholder partnerships among all countries and institutions, including civil society and business. In this session we will explore “how” to enable effective multi-stakeholder engagement. Through concrete examples from a variety of actors, we will explore: How best to collaborate? How to break down the “silos”? And, how to draw on the comparative advantages of partners? As Canada looks to address the challenges of the 2030 Agenda, Global Affairs Canada is looking to development professionals to help chart the way forward as we strive to make multi-stakeholder partnerships work effectively. |
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Deirdre Kent, Director General, International Development Policy, Global Affairs Canada Deirdre Kent is the Director General for Development Policy within Global Affairs Canada responsible for the advancement of strategic development policy and emerging issues, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Since joining the Foreign Service in 1994, Ms. Kent’s career has focussed on multilateral diplomacy including international development policy, peace and security issues and human rights. From 2012-2015, she was responsible for operational responses to complex crises, police and civilian deployments and program finances with the Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force (START) which coordinates Canada’s whole-of-government engagement for stabilization and reconstruction in fragile and conflict-affected states. Previously, she served for 4 years as Director of the Development Policy and Institutions Division with responsibilities within the Foreign Ministry for international development policy, food security and international financial institutions. Her last overseas assignment was as Human Rights Counsellor at the Canadian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland from 2002 to 2006, where she was elected Rapporteur for the United Nations Human Rights Commission in 2005. She has also served abroad in Israel and the West Bank/Gaza. Deirdre Kent holds a Bachelor of Science and an International Masters of Business Administration (MBA). She is married with two children. |
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Chris Eaton, Executive Director, World University Service of Canada
With a strong and varied background in international development, Chris has worked extensively in Canada, Eastern and Southern Africa and South and Central Asia. Prior to WUSC, Chris was Chief Executive Officer for Aga Khan Foundation Afghanistan for four years. He has held senior roles at Aga Khan Foundation Canada since 1999. Chris spent most of the 1990s based in Uganda where he focused on capacity building of local governments and communities. |
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Chris Enns, International Development Officer, Bow Valley College
Prior to joining BVC, Chris lived and worked in Mwanza, Tanzania with World Renew to build the capacity of its partner organizations and advise them on the implementation of their community development projects with a focus on sustainable livelihoods, adult education, agriculture, savings and credit groups, gender equality, environmental conservation, and community leadership. Chris has a joint Master’s degree from the University of Guelph in Rural Planning and International Development Studies, as well as a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Calgary in International Relations. He has traveled extensively around the world throughout his life and lived in Tanzania for six years and Bangladesh for nine years. He is fluent in Swahili and speaks Bengali at an intermediate level. |
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Michael Wodzicki, Director, Program Development, Federation of Canadian Municipalities
At FCM since February 2016, Michael is responsible for identifying, assessing, and building programs that meet its members’ interests and sustain FCM’s programming priorities and portfolios in Canada and internationally. From 2010 to 2015, Michael successfully led the growth of Canada’s national co-operative business association to pursue international development objectives around the world, identifying and obtaining successfully more than $75 million in new programs. Previously, Michael led a team of 20 people at Rights & Democracy, a Canadian arms-length institution that promoted democracy and human rights globally. He’s also managed development programs in Eastern Europe for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and for three years, advised a Canadian cabinet minister on foreign policy issues. Michael has published in academic journals, newspapers, and magazines. In 2007, he was selected by Toronto’s Walter Duncan and Gordon Foundation as a Gordon Global Fellow, awarded to Canadian young foreign policy leaders. |
Chris Eaton has been the Executive Director of World University Service of Canada (WUSC) since 2009 coming full circle after volunteering in Lesotho for the organization in the late 1980s. WUSC is a leading Canadian non-profit organization in international development that works to provide education, employment and empowerment opportunities that improve the lives of millions of disadvantaged youth around the world. One of WUSC’s most important strategic partners is CECI, the Centre for International Studies and Cooperation. Jointly, WUSC and CECI implement the Uniterra program, one of Canada’s most important international volunteer cooperation programs that mobilizes over 450 volunteers annually.
Chris Enns is an International Development Officer at Bow Valley College (BVC), with a focus on developing and managing our projects in East and Southern Africa. He is currently overseeing our interests and partnerships in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique for capacity building of partner institutions in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), entrepreneurship, and Early Learning and Childcare programming.
Michael Wodzicki is Director, Program Development, at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM). A graduate of McGill University and the University of Edinburgh, Michael has worked in more than 40 countries for the Canadian government, the non-profit sector, and now with FCM, Canada’s national voice for municipal governments.