15 MAY 2024, 10 – UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS (NEW YORK)
PROGRAMME
Moderator & introductory remarks
 Masumi Ono
 Chief, Social Integration & Participation Branch, UN Division for Inclusive Social Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DISD)
Launch of Publications
M. Gamal Abdelemonem
 Chair in Architecture & Founding Director of Research,
 University of York, United Kingdom
 Home, Family and Climate Change: Understanding the Power of Home to Transform Societies in the Face of Climate Emergency
Renata Kaczmarska & Chista Behbin Guirand
 UN Division for Inclusive Social Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DISD)
 Main Findings and Recommendations of the DESA Background Paper on Climate Change and Families
Regional Expert Group Meetings, Symposiums, Awareness-Raising Events & National and Local Good Practices & Initiatives
Irwan Nadzif bin Mahpul
 Researcher at the Population and Family Research Division, National Population & Family Development Board, Malaysia
 The Development of Family Wellbeing Index : Malaysia Experience
 EGM on Interlinkages between Migration, Urbanization, New Technologies, Demographic Trends and Climate Change in Asia
Sharifa Al-Emadi
 Executive Director, Doha International Family Institute (DIFI)
 EGM on Technological Change and the Family in the Arab Region
 EGM on Demographic Change & Family Wellbeing in Africa
 International Conference on Family and Contemporary Megatrends
Ignacio Socias
 Director of International Relations, International Federation for Family Development (IFFD)
 EGM on Population Ageing and Family Wellbeing in Europe
 Event at the European Parliament on the Impact of Climate Anxiety on Family
 Understanding the Controversy on the Decline in Fertility and the Future Evolution of it
Vivian Lou Weigun
 Professor, University of Hong Kong and Representative of the Consortium of Family Institutes in Asia (CIFA)
 EGM on Demographic Changes & Ageing of Population in Asia
Juan Antonio López Baljarg
 Director General, Instituto de Análisis de Política Familiar (IAPF, Mexico)
 EGM on Megatrends and Families: Focus on Demographic Change in Latin America
Donna Butts
 Executive Director, Generations United (United States)
 Symposium on Changing Demographics Can Result in Strengthening Families
Dominic Richardson
 Managing Director, Learning for Wellbeing Institute (Netherlands)
 EGM on Parenting, Caregiving, Work-family Balance and Family Policies
Roberto Ciambetti
 President, Regional Council of Veneto Region (Italy)
 Family Policies and the Impact of Climate Change
Diosdado Marasigan
 President, Educhild Foundation (Philippines)
 Parenting Education Initiatives
 2024 IFFD World Congress in Cebu
Civil Society Declaration
Alex Vazquez
 Representative to the UN & Strategic Partnerships Coordinator, International Federation for Family Development (IFFD)
 Introduction
Madeleine Wallin
 Secretary General, European Federation of Parents and Carers at Home (FEFAF)
 Unpaid Care and Domestic Work and Early Childhood Development
Regina Maroncelli Florio
 President, European Large Families Confederation (ELFAC)
 New Technologies & the Wellbeing of Families at Home, at Work and in the Community
