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The candidate is a representative of a civil society organization, and officially authorized by the organization/network to speak on the organization. The nominee is a good public speaker.
It is available to be at UN Headquarters in NY at 8:30am on the day of their speaking role, and for travel if necessary. As indicated above, the nominee have a visa for travel to the US.
The nominee is Sociologist with experience in participatory methodology of popular education and social communication with gender, ethnicity, race, rural and urban populations. Expertise in Indigenous issues, women of African descent and approach to gender equity.
Sociologist with experience in participatory methodology of popular education and social communication with Gender, ethnicity, race, rural and urban Populations. Expertise in Indigenous issues, women of African descent and approach to gender equity.
She has participated in several regional consultations organized by the UN as part of the construction of the Post Agenda 2015. The Future We Want (Mexico)
He has a long experience in the construction of public policies from civil society for social incluión women, African descendants, indigenous, youth and children. Participated in National Consultations evaluate the results of MDGs.
She has participated as an official delegate of his country in representacción Civil Society in the process regional towards Cairo +20 (Uruguay 2013)

Major Group of Children and Youth

-Children's Voice (DRC) [http://children-voice.org/]: Founding Member and Adviser (Support to women victims of rapes and post-conflict community trauma healing); -African Youth and Adolescent Network : Founding Member and Focal Point (Rwanda) -International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) : Research fellow and adviser -ESA High Level Group on the commitment to Comprehensive Sexuality Education: Member and youth adviser. -International Partnership for Microbicides (Providing HIV prevention products for women worldwide): clinical researcher and community adviser; -International Federation of Medical Students Association (IFMSA): Alumni member (Sexual and Reproductive Health adviser)

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As a medically trained doctor from and working in a post conflict country-- he can offer a unique perspective on the nexus. He has strong opinions and is passionate for them. We have included his own words below:

According to him, different steps come into play here: 1) A strong leadership, that is able to unite the society/nation/country and inspire a high level of trust by articulating a clear VISION towards which Political, economic and social institutions should all work, and that seeks, beyond silencing the guns and ending conflicts, to restore trust and re-construct the shattered social cohesion of a post-conflict society. 2) This VISION should include a set of different goals that tackle challenges in different sectors, but which share the same aspiration to rebuild the social fabric and the sens of national cohesion and inclusion that is so vital to achieve sustainable development.3) A strong sense of ownership, cohesion and inclusion should characterize the people whom these political economic and social institutions serve. People should understand and own the reason behind any action taken by these institutions, thereby playing a key role in implementing policies that transform their lives from the devastation and misery of war, to a more prosperous future. 4) Employment and healthcare should be readily accessible, mainly to young people. Without these 2 key things, no sustainable development may be possible. "An unhealthy society can never be stable nor peaceful, and its development efforts can never be sustainable". There is one big UNFINISHED BUSINESS (despite tremendous progress made in the area) that the world should not forget: HIV and AIDS. The Post-2015 development agenda MUST INCLUDE a CLEAR AND STRONG COMMITMENT to the "END OF AIDS". The whole world wants:
-ZERO DISCRIMINATION
-ZERO NEW HIV INFECTIONS
-ZERO AIDS-RELATED DEATHS
The "END OF AIDS" should therefore be a Post-2015 business!!!
If we don't work for the END of AIDS today, you as the current leading generation, will be leaving us young people a LEGACY OF STRUGGLE WITH A MUCH STRONGER AND MORE DEADLY EPIDEMIC in the Post-2015 area.

Young people want attention to AIDS in the Post-2015 agenda.
Issues like climate change, violence, drug trafficking, and HIV should ALL BE TACKLED together with HIV/AIDS.

Sub-Saharan African countries have made tremendous efforts towards significantly decrease their HIV prevalence by scaling-up and increasing access to SRH and HIV prevention information and services, but also by standardizing services like EMTCT, VCT and VMC.

A new social movement should move out the traditional civil society approach that emerged when the epidemic started (at which time we did not know anything about the epidemic, and peiple were dying everywhere. Everybody was scared). That kind of old-school social movement can not take the HIV business into the Post-2015 development agenda.
We need to put new issues on the tabel:
-issue of "medicalizing" AIDS
-Issue of repositioning the debate on sexuality
-Issue of repositioning the role of young people in the society
-Issue of making sure that we deal with human rights and marginalized populations (without discrimination based on gender, sexual-orientation or religion: young girls, sex-workers, MSM, prisoners, migrant populations, etc) and that they are at the center of this movement;
-Issue of young people being the central part of the transformative and sustainable development agenda that the Post-2015 development agenda is meant to be.

This new approach will fundamentally move our focus from "charity" to a new framework based on social justice, equality and equity.

THIS IS THE BASIS OF SUSTAINABILITY. NO development AGENDA CAN BE sustainable if it does not include a solution to save the 50 young people newly infected with HIV every hour (mostly young women), 2.6 million youth aged 15-24 living with HIV (more than 4 times the population of Baltimore), 20% of young women starting childbearing before 17 years of age, and adolescent girls dying of maternal mortality. This is only the "African picture of the problem", but in Eastern Europe, the HIV situation is much much worse.

Without including this UNFINISHED BUSINESS into the Post-2015 agenda, "Sustainable Development" will remain a chimera dream in many parts of the world.

Young people have been tokenized for too long, they need to be involved both in decision-making and in the planning processes that will lead to concrete actions that will affect their lives. We need young people. As young people, we are the 5th pillar of the Secretary General's strategy for sustainable development.

The debate on AIDS should be an entry-point to the Post-2015 sustainable development agenda, and young people
This debate will hit "multiple birds with one stone", by adopting a "POST-2015 GOAL ON AIDS", we will also tackle the myriad of Sexual and Reproductive Health problems that have become rampant in the MDGs era (maternal mortality, child mortality under 5, tuberculosis, etc) and that are all empowered by HIV.
*We CANNOT talk about HIV/AIDS without talking about Comprehensive SRH education, and universal access to information and services.
*We CANNOT talk about empowering young people to lead this world to a better future without educating them to make RESPONSIBLE CHOICES ABOUT THEIR SEXUALITY, and dealing with GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE. Young people and adolescents, mainly young girls, are continued to be infected and die everyday. SO much gain has been achieved.
The risk is that movement we have created and made today, may not be around anymore.By July 2014, countries will start to make final inputs.The SG will propose a synthesis-report, before ratification by the UN GA.The MDGs covered several areas, now we should look for clear points on which political commitments are pronounced. Education, Health, etc. Each of this component should have a youth engagement.First and foremost, by UNDERSTANDING and RESPECTING the national and local contexts in every country.
The international community should remain impartial when it comes to ensuring the best interest of the people, yet should not overlook the local context of each country.
National institutions in every country were built to respond in the best possible way to the needs of their people.
The international community should prioritize dialogue, consultations rather than the use of force (to topple institutions already in place) when it comes to providing its contribution to strengthening national institutions.
No nation on Earth should enforce, by influencing the international community or by using veto in global gatherings such as the united nations, its will on any country by the use of force.
Dialogue and inclusive peaceful consultations should remain the top priority, and Force should only come as the last resort when all else has failed in cases of marked human rights violations against local populations. The international community should therefore endeavor to BETTER ASSESS AND ACCURATELY UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES ON THE GROUND, and take courses of action that really benefit the people whom national institutions are meant to serve. Global partnerships should first understand that national efforts ARE OWNED by the people, and that they are meant to be SUPPORTED rather than INFLUENCED/SHAPED/HIJACKED. People know what is good for them, and so global partnerships should seek to better understand and respect the wish of the people when supporting national efforts to ensure stable and peaceful societies. Strong, accountable, people-centered, corruption-free and Institutions are the basis of a people-centered governance that provide the public services that people really need and that improve their lives everyday. National institutions: Police an other Government security forces, Justice sytem, activities from various institutions fostering social cohesion amon people (e.g: Umuganda community service in Rwanda). No development endeavor can be sustainable if it does not actively involve people at the grassroot level. Leaders at all levels (national, regional, global) should be openly accessible and accountable through consultations with the people they serve.

Dr Christian Bayingana is a youth development consultant and activist based in Rwanda, and has worked with AfriYAN, a child and youth organization since 2007. As a medical doctor, Christian has worked with UN Peace-keeping Operations in Post-conflict countries, where he had the opportunity to witness and contribute to the efforts to empower women and girls to play their role in post-conflict peace-building.

Over the last few years, he has been involved in building the capacity of youth leaders from different parts of the world on understanding how their country development planning process works and how to engage with these.
With over 7 years of experience in advocacy for stronger youth participation in both decision-making and planning processes at the highest level in ICPD process, the Sustainable development goals framework and the post-2015 development agenda. He is a member of the ESA High Level Group on the commitment to Comprehensive Sexuality Education. An initiative being spearheaded by UNESCO, UNAIDS and UNFPA. He is also a member of the Youth Steering Committee for the ICPD Africa Review.

He organized various national consultations and produced recommendations to the drafting of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Rio+20 ("The Future We Want") Outcome Declaration.

As a youth SRR activist, Christian has spoken on various platforms including at the 2012 Commission on Population and Development, the leadership programme of 2011 UN High Level Meeting on HIV as well as the UN High Level Meeting on youth; the International AIDS Conference in Washington among others. He brings the experiences of a youth leader who has been actively and simultaneously involved in advocacy and work from the community level to policy discussions at the global level.

National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights

He is one of the leading pioneers in the arena of Dalit Rights Movement’s. Now for more than three decades he has been working for the empowerment of Dalits and Adivasis. During this period he initiated a number of Community groups, movements & campaigns. He along with his wife initiated a community action group called Prajwala in the year 1985 organising Dalits and other landless for their rights and development in Andhra Pradesh in Chittor district. After 5 years, in 1990 and together with several activists initiatied a Union for Dalit Bahujan agricultural workers in the whole of Andhra Pradesh with over a lakh of members.

In his fight for social justice he has served on several committees to bring about policy level changes for welfare of the marginalised communities. He has been on the Steering committees in the Planning Commission in 2007 and in 2011 for both the 11th Plan as well as with the 12th Plan. He is currently a member of the National Monitoring Committee for the Welfare of the SCs and STs of Ministry of HRD from 2012. He has been also a member of the working Group on Dalits in National Advisory Council.

He has carved a niche in the area of fiscal transparency and accountability. His deep interest for economic empowerment for the Dalits has been the reason behind initiating a campaign on ensuring equitable access to budgets. He is also one of the founders and present convenor of the National coalition on SCP TSP Legislation which consists of about 200 organisations from 22 different states. He is also a champion in Internationalizing Dalit Rights and Inclusion. He is the convener of Wada Na Todo (Do Not Break The Promise Campaign with a special focus on Post 2015 development agenda.
He is a pioneer in bringing up the social inclusion and equity of vulnerable communities in various International Platforms.
He will be the most rightful person to raise the issues of 260 millions of Dalits all over the world and their concerns in the discussion of Post 2015 Development Agenda.