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3:00-4:00 pm Session 3

Room 1 Room 2

Disability at schoolModerator: Dr Karangwa Evariste, KIE

Developing the natural abilities of children and

young people with disabilities in school and the

community

Silas NGAYABOSHYA, Handicap International

Program

A Fair Chance for Deaf Children

Dr Jemma Hogwood, Fair Children Youth

Foundation, Musanze

4:00-5:00pm Session 4Room 1 Room 2

Schools as an avenue for life skills and

family education

Moderator: Professor Ben

Womens promotion through education in

Rwanda: from colonial times to present

Ilaria Buscaglia, PhD student University of Turinand Prof Shirley Randell AO, PhD, Director,

CGCD, KIE

Future prospects for street children, child- and

youth headed households and orphans

Moderator: Rachel Mahuku

The value of education? the challenge of falling

through the system - I am not clever enough for

school: Young perspectives on disadvantageMaja Haals Londorf, PhD Candidate

London School of Economics, UK

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8:30-9:00 am Registration9:00-10:00 am Opening session

Moderator: Dr Beatrice Yanzigiye, Confucius Institute

Presentation of key findings and issues from day before

Anastase MUREKEZI

Hon. Minister of Public Services and Labour, Address on employment issues (confirmed or PS)

Prof Pamela AbbottIPAR(confirmed)

Linking Education to Employment

10:30-10:55 am Coffee/Tea Break

11:00-12:30 pm Session 5

Room 1 Room 2

Decent work forwomens empowermentModerator: Serafina SIFA

Linking education and training to decent work for

womens empowerment

Odette Nyiramuzima

KIE Student, Masters Program, CGCD

Rwanda Social Security Board /Kicukiro Branch

Manager

Entrepreneurship training for self-employed

women in Kigali preliminary research findings

Carolein Vis, Msc. Candidate International

Development Studies, University of Amsterdam,the Netherlands; Intern for SPARK Rwanda,

Gacuriro, Kigali

Education into EmploymentModerator: Dr Joseph Gahama

Supporting Student Survivors into Employment

Eugene Ndagijimana, Program Co-ordinator,

Education into Employment Program, AERG

Education Quality and Womens Preparation for

Rwandas Workforce: A Practitioners Perspective

Mary M Powell, Lead Instructor, Akilah Institute for

Women

Learning Chinese: Education for International

EmploymentKONG Lingyuan, Confucius Institute at Kigali Institute

of Education

ducation and Employment in Rwandapplied Gendered Perspectives: Sportsview Hotel: 10-11 October 2011

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12:30-1:30 pm Lunch

1:30-3:00 pm Session 6

Barriers to EmploymentModerator: Dr Anne Marie Hildson, CGCD

Disability and work

Dr Karangwa Evariste A/Dean, Postgraduate

Studies and Research , Chair of TDIER --- Co-

ordinator of EdQual, KIE

Silas NGAYABOSHYA, Handicap InternationalRwanda

Complemented by panel1. Jeanne d'Arc Ntigurirwa ofRwanda Union of

the Deaf, Graduate with Distinction but stiil

unemployed.

2. Mugisha Jacque ofRwanda Union of the Blind,

Journalist of ORINFOR and completing the studies

at the School of Journalism)

3. Victor Zinda, a wheel chair user. Student of KIE,

head of a family of three, and working.

Barriers to EmploymentModerator: Olukemi Asemota

Unveiled potential of refugee women: Barriers to

employment for Congolese women living in refugee

camps in Rwanda in relation to gender, rural/urban

areas, trauma and health.

Christine Peace Apio, AFFILIATION: American RefugeeCommittee International (ARC Rwanda)

3:00-3:25 pm Coffee/Tea Break

3:30-4:30 pm Session 7In the workplace

Moderator: Olukemi Asemota

Gender Knowledge Gaps in High Education Sector

of Rwanda: the Case of the Center for Gender,

Culture and Development, Kigali Institute of

Education, Dr Venera Zakirova, CGCD

Gender Based Corruption in the workplace

Appollinaire Mupiganyi, Transparency Rwanda

Gender Analyses of GIZ Development

Cooperation Programmes in Rwanda a startingpoint for a more systematic Gender

Mainstreaming, Esther Tdijani, Gender Officer, GIZ

Office Kigali

HIV/Aids in the workplace

Innocent Kamali, RRP plus

4:30-5:00 pm Session 8

Rapporteurs from the day if possible areas for future research identified and discussed

5:00-5:30pm Angelina Muganza, Executive Secretary Public Service Commission (confirmed)

Closing address

6:00pm Cocktail