The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Inter-American Development Bank “Partnering to Prevent Domestic Abuse”

October 2010 Domestic Violence Awareness Month Events Participation Information

October 18, 2010 – Guest Speaker

OPENING REMARKS Adriana Quinones Manager, United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women Ms. Quinones is Manager of the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women since September of 2008 where she oversees a grants portfolio of over 40 million dollars in 76 countries. Prior to joining the Fund, she served as Technical Advisor to the Inter-American Development Bank's Gender Mainstreaming Trust Fund where she developed innovative strategies for women's economic, social and political empowerment in Latin America and the Caribbean. These projects included mainstreaming strategic gender-based interventions in rural transport and electrification, urban transportation, housing, and trade initiatives that in many instances include tailored interventions to address gender based violence. She also developed the first initiative where the IDB considered credit for persons living with HIV and AIDS, and developed a program to combat stigma and discrimination for Garifuna women living with HIV in Honduras. She was advisor to the High Commissioner for Peace in Colombia where she documented systematic human rights violations in the context of the internal armed conflict and worked to address the needs of displaced populations.

INTRODUCTION Ngozi N. Okonjo-Iweala Managing Director, World Bank Ms. Okonjo-Iweala is a managing director of the World Bank. She has been at the forefront of the World Bank’s efforts to help developing countries hardest hit by the global food, fuel, and financial crises. She is currently chairing the 16th Replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s fund for the poorest countries. Previously she was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and served as both finance minister and foreign minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

MODERATOR Mr. Alphonsus (Fons) Marcelis Head, HRS Corporate Operations Mr. Alphonsus (Fons) Marcelis, a Dutch national, joined the World Bank Group in 1992 as Human Resources Officer in the IFC HR Department. He has since held various positions in the Bank including Senior Human Resources Officer in IFC and in the Bank; Manager, Compensation, Benefits and Insurance Management; and since January 2008 as Lead Specialist, Human Resources and Head of the HR Corporate Operations team. In this capacity he also oversees the Domestic Abuse Awareness and victims’ assistance program.

Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Mr. Marcelis worked for 12 years in the private sector, including as a management consultant with Royal Philips Electronics and prior to this in the healthcare sector.

Mr. Marcelis holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and followed extensive post graduate training in Human Resources Management and Management Consulting.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS–Preventing Violence in Our Lives: The Gift of Fear Gavin de Becker (appearing via live video) Bestselling Author The man calls the Nation’s Leading Expert on violence Gavin de Becker is widely regarded as our Nation’s leading expert on the prediction and management of violence. He is the best-selling author of THE GIFT OF FEAR, and several other bestsellers that teach about violence and safety. His books are now published in 15 languages, and have been cited in more than a hundred other books, as well as profiled in TIME and , featured on Larry King Live, Oprah Winfrey, and , among many others.

Gavin de Becker & Associates, his 250-person firm, provides consultation and protection services for at-risk public figures all over the world. The firm developed the threat assessment systems used to screen threats to Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as members of Congress, and designed systems for the U.S. Marshals Service, the Central Intelligence Agency, and many others.

His work has earned him three Presidential appointments and a position on a congressional committee. He was twice appointed to the President’s Advisory Board at the U.S. Department of Justice, and he served two terms on the Governor’s Advisory Board at the Department of Mental Health. Last year, Oprah Winfrey dedicated an hour-long show to commemorate the 10-Year Anniversary of the The Gift of Fear – and this year, Ms Winfrey dedicated two shows to Gavin’s teachings about reducing domestic violence and spousal homicide. You might have seen those shows, and it’s that topic Gavin will be discussing today.

ANNOUNCEMENT Maaike le Grand President, World Bank Family Network Since 1972, WBFN has been the support organization and a warm community for the families of the World Bank Group (WBG). The main goals are to welcome newly arrived families, to inform and educate them about their benefits and their new environment and to advocate on their behalf within the Bank. WBFN is a volunteer-driven organization where a dynamic group of members (spouses or domestic partners of WBG staff) dedicate their time and professional experience to offer an attractive community both for newcomers and members who have been in the area for a longer time. Membership (free of charge) is open to all spouses and domestic partners of World Bank Group staff. The WBFN President this year is Maaike le Grand, the leadership is chosen each year at the Annual Meeting.

CLOSING REMARKS Hasan A. Tuluy Vice President, Human Resources, World Bank Mr. Tuluy joined the World Bank in 1987 as an economist in the Africa Region. He has since held various positions in the World Bank including Senior Environmental Economist and Coordinator of the Mediterranean Environment Technical Assistance Program (METAP) program in the Europe, Middle East and North Africa Region, Principal Country Officer and Country Director in the Africa Region, Director of the Corporate Strategy Group of the Strategy and Resource Management VPU, and Director of Operations and Country Services Department of the Middle East and North Africa Region. In March 2008, Mr. Tuluy was appointed Vice President, Human Resources. Prior to that, from April 2007, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA). For several years prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Tuluy worked as a consultant with a number of Governments and with the Research Department of the World Bank on price and trade policy issues.

October 20, 2010 – Panel Discussion

OPENING SPEAKER Shirley Siegel Human Resources Director, IMF Shirley Siegel is Director of the Human Resources Department at the International Monetary Fund. In this capacity, Ms. Siegel works under the overall guidance of the Managing Director and in close collaboration with the other members of the Fund’s management team. She is responsible for setting the Fund’s human resources strategy; advising management on human resources issues, and consulting with departments on human resources policies and priorities.

Prior to working at the IMF, Ms. Siegel was Assistant Deputy Minister in charge of Human Resources (Civilian) for the Canadian Department of National Defense. Her more than 30 years of experience in the Canadian Public Service also included positions as Director of Human Resource Operations for the Department of Natural Resources, Executive Director, Senior Level Retention and Compensation at the Treasury Board Secretariat, and Vice President, Human Resources at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

Most recently, she has been a consultant to senior management of various public sector organizations and agencies in Canada (e.g., the Canadian Red Cross, federal departments of Finance and Agriculture). Ms. Siegel graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa.

PANELIST Betty Luan Advocates Program Co-Director, Domestic Violence Resource Project Betty Luan received her Bachelor’s Degree in Comparative Literature from Stanford University, and is a candidate for a Masters degree in East Asian Studies. Betty has been working with the immigrant community and with the women’s movement for over six years. Betty assisted low-income Asian Pacific Americans and immigrants in accessing legal services, and provided services to VAWA applicants when she worked as the Program Coordinator at the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center in Washington D.C. She also previously was an outreach worker in Hong Kong for Ziteng, an immigrant sex worker concern group, and volunteered with Thai domestic workers through the Thai Migrant Women Association. In her current role as the Advocates Program Co-Director at the Domestic Violence Resource Project, Betty recruits and trains bilingual advocates in providing peer support to survivors of domestic violence, and participates in community response meetings to address urgent issues affecting underserved communities.

PANELIST Helen Hall Victim Services Advocate, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Washington DC Helen Hall has over 30 years of community advocacy in domestic violence and sexual assault. A former victim, now survivor, Ms. Hall has studied human behavior in various higher learning institutions and has a strong passion to eliminate DA through community education and awareness. She has worked as a consultant to organizations such as the World Bank, CSOSA and the DC TANF Program.

PANELIST Manuel Contreras Gender and Public Health Specialist, International Center for Research on Women Manuel Contreras is responsible for providing programming, research and analysis services. He has over 12 years of experience of research and international work in gender, notably violence against women and men and masculinities. He has an MSc in Demography from El Colegio de México and a PhD in Population Studies from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has worked as a consultant and research collaborator at the Sexual Violence Research Initiative in South Africa, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office and research institutions. He has published widely in the areas of violence, sexual and reproductive health, gender and demography.

PANELIST Pauline Muchina Senior Partnership Advisor, UNAIDS Pauline Muchina comes from the Rift Valley Province in Kenya, where her family still resides. She joined UNAIDS in January 2006 as the Senior Women and AIDS Advocacy Officer. She is currently serving as the Senior Partnership Adviser for UNAIDS in Washington, DC. Previously, Muchina worked as the Global Health Council's community and faith-based organization outreach coordinator and with the AIDSMARK team at Population Services International. Prior to moving to Washington, DC, Muchina worked for the AIDS Resource Center and World Council of Churches in New York. Muchina is a member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, and has served on several boards, including the Global AIDS Alliance. She holds a Masters in Divinity from Yale University Divinity School and a Ph.D. from the Union Theological Seminary in New York. Muchina believes that our diversity is our strength and seeks to foster collaboration in all areas of our lives. Muchina is fluent in Kiswahili and English.

PANELIST Revathi K. Vikram MD Board Member, ASHA for Women Revathi K. Vikram MD grew up in India, Brazil and the United States. She graduated from high school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, received her undergraduate degree in Biology from Washington University in St Louis, MO, and her medical degree from University of Delhi in India. She then chose to specialize in Psychiatry, served as Resident and Chief Resident in Psychiatry at the Montefiore Medical Center in and was subsequently appointed to the faculty of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. She is Board-Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

For over two decades, Dr. Vikram practiced in the field of community mental health in New York City with all its cultural diversity. She also taught and supervised trainees from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons as well as the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in psychiatry, psychology and other mental health disciplines. She rose through the ranks of the American Psychiatric Association to serve as President of its New York State Westchester District Branch where she maintained a private practice in Psychiatry.

After 9/11 she and her husband took a sabbatical and moved to Vienna, Austria for 4 years to serve the developing world through the United Nations. There, Dr. Vikram served as a Board Member and later President of the United Nations Women's Guild, dealing with cross-cultural and child welfare issues. She promoted health education amongst the members of the Guild who were from over 100 countries. She served in the United Nations Millennium Project in Health education and helped ‘train the trainers’ for the UN's HIV-AIDS prevention initiatives. Since moving to the DC area in 2006 she has been busily involved in giving back. She serves on the Board of 'ASHA for Women' -- a non-profit, all-volunteer women's organization that helps victims of domestic violence in the South Asian Community. She lectures for Fundraising Adventures in support of the Delores Swoyer Scholarship Fund for poor children to attend Gaithersburg Community Camps.

Dr. Vikram has lived on five continents, has traveled to more than 50 countries and speaks eight languages.

MODERATOR Tina Tinde Diversity Advisor, IADB Tina Tinde joined the IDB in May 2009 as its first diversity advisor in human resources. She prepared a diversity strategy and a conference in November 09, and is coordinating the follow up. Main tasks include women’s advancement, diversity training, diversity self identification, awareness on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues and the recruitment of persons with disabilities.

From 2004-09 Tina was special advisor on gender issues to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva, where she set up a fundraising program for refugee women’s livelihoods. She chaired a UN/NGO working group on awareness raising and training on the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA). She helped write the UN Policy on Assistance to Victims of SEA and contributed to a security sector reform training toolkit. Tina has been a speaker on violence against women at UN and UNHCR International Women’s Day events and at international conferences.

Previously Tina was senior advisor at the Council of the Baltic Sea States in Stockholm, information advisor with the Ministry of Defence and researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Oslo. She served one year with the UN peacekeeping operation in Cambodia and one year in Ex-Yugoslavia. Tina has a master's degree in anthropology and journalism from the University of Montana, USA, a Diploma from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and a BA in political science, French and German literature from the University of Oslo, Norway.

CLOSING SPEAKER Kiersten Stewart Director of Public Policy and Advocacy Family Violence Prevention Fund Kiersten Stewart is Director of Public Policy and Advocacy for the Family Violence Prevention Fund, a national non-profit organization dedicated to ending violence against women and children around the world. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and received her Master’s Degree from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She previously worked as a newspaper reporter before transitioning to nonprofit advocacy and work on Capitol Hill. Stewart served as Chief of Staff to Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) after managing his successful campaign in 1998. She speaks frequently to the media about how to reduce violence and has managed the FVPF’s Washington office since 2000. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two children.

The International Violence Against Women Act is groundbreaking legislation that would for the first time make ending violence against women and girls a priority in our foreign policy and foreign assistance. It would fund programs in other countries to help women and girls who have been beaten or raped and would also integrate prevention of such violence into work we already do with other governments and on-the-ground community led organizations. It takes a holistic approach linking efforts to help survivors with those that provide education and economic opportunity to women, change attitudes and social norms including working with men and boys, and train police and judges on how to prosecute such crimes. Importantly, it also increases our ability to help women and girls during times of crisis and conflict avoid and recover from sexual violence and trauma.

For more than three decades, the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) has worked to end violence against women and children around the world. Instrumental in developing the landmark Violence Against Women Act passed by Congress in 1994, the FVPF has continued to break new ground by reaching new audiences including men and youth, promoting leadership within communities to ensure that violence prevention efforts become self- sustaining, and transforming the way health care providers, police, judges, employers and others address violence.

October 27, 2010 – DVIP Players and Film Screening

The Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP) was established on December 14, 1992 under the auspices of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Social Services Division. Following implementation of the District of Columbia Revitalization Act, DVIP was transferred to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) on November 1, 1998.

DVIP is responsible for providing batterer’s intervention services to offenders mandated by the Court and the United States Parole Commission to receive treatment. The program uses the Duluth Model for domestic abuse intervention providing a 22 week psycho-educational group. CSOSA offenders are referred to the program resulting from Probation Orders, Deferred Sentencing Agreements, Civil Protection Orders, Parole and Supervised Release Certificates. DVIP’s mission is to ensure batterer accountability and victim safety. Outreach is provided to victims by DVIP staff. CSOSA has a Victim Services Program that provides resources and referrals for assistance to domestic violence survivors.

In addition to providing counseling services to batterer’s, DVIP is engaged with community education. The staff has specialized training and certifications in domestic violence. They are regularly invited to conduct presentations at workshops, forums and conferences. They have presented in the local metropolitan area, as well as nationally and internationally. The training and presentations include dramatizations about family violence. The productions are performed by the DVIP Players. The actors are the staff that do the day to day work of facilitating batterer’s intervention groups. They have many years of experience working in the field of domestic violence. Through creativity and visualization the various forms of family violence is displayed. The focus of the dramatization is to teach about power and control in relationships, the cycle of violence, and interventions and resources to break the cycle of violence.

The DVIP Players have performed at:

• The Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency Domestic Violence Conference • The American Probation and Parole Conference • Middle Atlantic States Correctional Association Conference • Institute for Social Justice International Crime Summit • DC Department of Human Services Domestic Violence Workshop • Georgetown University Domestic Violence Law Clinic Workshop • George Washington University Domestic Violence Law Clinic Workshop • Georgetown Medical Center Domestic Violence Workshop

Telling Amy’s Story Hosted by actress and advocate Mariska Hargitay, and told by Detective Deirdri Fishel, Telling Amy’s Story follows the timeline of a domestic violence homicide that occurred on November 8, 2001.

Personal Perspectives The victim’s parents and co-workers, law enforcement officers, and court personnel share their perspectives on what happened to Amy in the weeks, months, and years leading up to her death.

Changing Outcomes While we will never be able to change the ending to Amy’s story, we hope that it’s telling can change outcomes for the millions of victims, survivors, and loved ones affected by domestic violence every day.