Presentations during the second lockdown period – 2021

During the second lockdown period due to the coronavirus pandemic, IFFD has continued to participate in different events, held online due to those circumstances.

The Committee organized a consultation meeting with experts, including the director of international relations of IFFD, on Reaction to the crisis and priorities of action.

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The 2021 observance of the International Day of Families focuses on the impacts of new technologies on the well-being of families and follows-up on the theme of the 59th session of the Commission for Social Development “Socially just transition towards sustainable development: the role of digital technologies on social development and well-being of all.

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The event was moderated by Olivier Yao, president of the International Federation for Family Development (IFFD).

The conference took place in Warsaw on the 17th of May in Warsaw with a hybrid formula (combining presential and online participation. It was organized by Projekt PL and was co-sponsored by IFFD, to celebrate the International Day of Families.

Projekt PL website

The director of International Relations was one of the participants in the first and second panel.

ELISAN was formed in 2008 at the Committee of the Regions in Brussels and is an INGO enjoying participatory status with the Council of Europe. The ELISAN network is open to European territorial communities, as well as town networks, experts in local social action and European networks acting in the field of social action or interested in working to develop a social Europe which guarantees the basic rights of all citizens.

Intervention of Ignacio Socias after his appointment as member of the Experts Committee

Webinar series sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, represented by Latter-day Saint Charities in New York and Geneva, and the European Union & International Affairs Office in Brussels, Belgium.

Intervention of Ignacio Socias in the Episode 15 – Concluding Episode and Final Reflections.

Intervention of Alex Vazquez in Episode 12 – Practical Considerations for Family Advocacy, a workshop on working with academia, building coalitions and grassroots mobilization.

The Instituto de Análisis de Política Familiar (IAPF) from Mexico organized its 2nd Congress on Family Policies, with a particular focus in the Latin American region. The conference lasted for two days and explored the context and progress of family policies and their contribution to the implementation of a family perspective in Mexico and the whole region.

The director of International Relations of IFFD presented the conclusions of the SDGs & Families project during a panel on Family Policies, a local view from a global perspective.

The Doha Family International Institute organized an online conference to draw an integrated picture of the phenomenon of marriage in the world, with a particular focus in the Arab regular. The conference delved into multiple faces of marriage by addressing: the socio-economic factors affecting marriage; reasons behind declining rates and delay of marriage; increases in the material costs of marriage; impact of work and family balance on marriage; factors influencing the stability of marital relations; as well as marriage in times of immigration, wars, and conflicts.

IFFD was a partner of the conference, and was present in a panel on the Foundation of a Happy Marriage. The discussion was moderated by Raymond Mutura, Director Centre for Research on Organizations Work & Family at the Strathmore University Business School and head of the Program for Family Development (member of IFFD in Kenya), and had Olivier Yao, world president of IFFD, as a speaker, together with Rosa Pich, Family Coach and Speaker; Sharifa Khalfan Al-Yahyai, Former Minister of Social Development of Qatar; and Sheikh Ahmed Al Buainain, Family Consultant.

DIFI website

Ignacio Socias was one of the speakers.

Organized by Universidad de La Sabana, as a partner of the global project on ‘Impact of the Pandemic on Family Life Across Cultures’.

Ignacio Socias was the keynote speaker of the seminar. He talked about family perspective and family policies in the pandemic.