• 9:30 – 10:00 am: Welcome coffee and Registration
• 10 am – 1 pm: Annual General Assembly (G.A.) – statutory part I:
  • Chair: Stefaan Van Bastelaere, Senior Health Expert Enabel (Belgian Agency for International Cooperation) & chair Steering Committee
  • Welcome and Introduction by the chair
  • Annual Report and Expenses 2024: closure
  • Overview & planning activities 2025 and budget 2025
  • Election new member Steering Committee
  • Election new member organisations: VSF, Amonsoli, Excellencis 
  • Procedure renewal membership for member organisations 2025
  • Conference 2026: brainstorm topics
  • Communication Strategy: presentation new Be-cause health logo
• 11.30 am – 12 pm: Coffee Break
• 10 am – 1 pm: Annual General Assembly (G.A.) – statutory part II:
  • Presentation Health Impact Coalition by Felipe Sere, Manager Development Memisa
  • Presentation of the preliminary results of the Be-cause health mid-term Survey by Hamza Hasan Syed, Master student Global Health Ghent University & intern Enabel
  • Presentation Planetary Health Alliance, Davide Ziveri, Environmental Health specialist Humanity & Inclusion; chair WG Planetary Health & member Steering Committee
  • Any Other Business 

• 1 – 2 pm: Lunch break

• 2 – 4:30 pm: Thematic session “Beyond the Chaos, a New World is Emerging”
  • Setting the scene – Neil Datta, Executive Director European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, (EPF) – Presentation report “Beyond the Chaos, a New World is Emerging: Making Sense of the Trump Administration’s Impact on Reproductive Rights and Gender Equality” (pre-recorded)
  • Keynote by Heidy Rombouts, General Director of the Directorate General Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid (DGD)
  • Keynote by Jean Van Wetter, CEO Enabel
  • Keynote by Özge Tunçalp, Executive Director Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) (pre-recorded)
  • Keynote by Fogue Foguito, Executive Director Positive-Generation (PG) Cameroon (pre-recorded)
  • ‘Resist and Reinvent’: Interactive panel discussion
    • Panellists: Joren Vallaeys, COO & CFO Ugani Prosthetics; Patricia St Louis, PhD student, School of Public Health, Université libre de Bruxelles; Kristof Decoster, Editor-in-chief International Health Policies network newsletter & scientific expert, Health Policy Unit, ITM; Elies Van Belle, General Director Memisa & chair WG Social Protection in Health
    • Moderators: Elisabeth Paul, Associate Professor, Ecole de Santé Publique, ULB and Karel Gyselinck, Head Health Unit Enabel

• 4:30 – 6:00 pm: Reception and networking event

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