Objective
The regional Stakeholder Dialogue “Towards an Integrated Climate Security Agenda for the Arab Region” aims at brining together relevant stakeholders to discuss operational challenges associated with current climate security frameworks, while exchanging information among the different actors to generate agreed strategic solutions in a more sustainable manner.
The online dialogue will use a participatory methodology to encourage participants to actively contribute to the development of a “Regional Strategic Policy Framework” to successfully integrate climate security into policy making across the Arab World.
The Strategic Policy Framework, developed as part of this workshop, will serve as an important and innovative tool for developing, operationalizing, and implementing climate security policies and activities on the national and regional levels across the MENA region. The framework represents an important first benchmark that will inform the future work of the “Climate Security Network”.
Expected Outcomes
The Dialogue’s expected outcome is mainly to enhance the understanding of the concept of climate security while providing strategic policy guidance on how to join forces to initiate a regional integrated climate security framework for the Arab region. The event is expected to enhance the understanding of the executed regional and national adaptation and mitigation policies and measures to cope with or avoid future risks associated with climate changes on human and natural systems. Based on the Dialogue deliberations and activities, the following outputs will be generated:
- A clear definition of the concept of Climate Security and what it really means for the Arab region.
- Identification of the main challenges hindering the proper operationalizing of an integrated framework for Climate Security in the MENA region, with respect to technical, institutional, and political challenges.
- A shared vision developed among relevant stakeholders on the main elements needed to initiate an integrated strategic framework to advance climate action for human security in the Arab region, and mainstreaming climate security considerations in development planning and risk reduction policies.
- A list of strategic objectives and action items required to address the current operational challenges using an integrated nexus approach.
- An enhanced integrated strategic framework to advance climate action for human security on the regional level.
- AWC 1st Climate Security Network is operationalized.
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Ahmed Naeemi
Head of Digital Transformation & Project Management, Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance
Noman Rasheed
Head of Information Technology, Dubai Islamic Bank
Hariprasad Chede
Chief Information Security Officer, National Bank Fujairah
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RCSSHD Workshop Agenda
CAIRO TIME
| Plenary Session I: Understanding the Context Main Plenary Platform |
Moderator Prof. Walid Abderrahman, Vice President, Arab Water Council |
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| 9:30 – 10:15 |
Welcoming Remarks
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| 10:15 – 10:30 |
Introduction on: Dialogue Objective and Agenda
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| 10:30 – 10:45 |
Presentation on “SDG-Climate Facility: Climate Action for Human Security Project Briefing” Ms. Sujala Pant, Chief Technical Advisor and Regional Project Manager, United Nations Development Programme |
| 10:45 – 11:00 |
Presentation on “Climate Change Challenges and Opportunities in the Arab Region” Dr. Wadid Erian, Senior Advisor, Sustainable Development, League of Arab States |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Presentation on “The Integration of SDGs, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction” Dr. Adel Farid Abdel-Kader, Senior Advisor, Environment and Sustainable Development |
| 11:20-11:30 | Open Discussion |
| 11:30-11:40 | Interactive Exercise: Climate Security for the Arab Region |
| 11:40-12:00 | Presentation on “Climate Change Forecast in the Arab Region – Case Study from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”. Prof. Walid Abderrahman, Vice President, Arab Water Council |
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15 minutes Break |
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| Plenary Session II : Setting the Stage Main Platform |
Moderator Prof. Safwat Abdel-Dayem, Senior Advisor and Board of Governors Member, Arab Water Council |
| 12:15-12:30 | Interactive Exercise: Assessing the Knowledge |
| 12:30 – 12:45 |
Presentation on “Regional Climate Security Stakeholder Dialogue – Goal and Methodology” Dr. Rami Salameh, Individual Consultant, Arab Water Council |
| 12:45 – 13:00 |
Presentation on “Regional Climate Security Network ” Eng. Heba Al Hariry, Regional Coordinator, Arab Water Council |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Open Discussion |
| 13:15 | End of Day 1 |
| Plenary Session I: Visioning, Challenges to Change Main Plenary Platform |
Moderator Arab Water Council |
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| 9:30 – 9:45 |
Description of “Visioning” Steps Dr. Rami Salameh, Individual Consultant, Arab Water Council |
| Moving to Task Force Platforms | |
| 9:45 – 10:45 | Activity 1: Identification of Climate Security Challenges (Technical, Institutional and Political) |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Activity 2: Interactive Exercise: Voting and prioritization of the top 5 challenges |
| 11:15-11:45 | Activity 3: Development of a Shared Vision for Climate Security for the Arab Region |
| Moving To Plenary Platform | |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Activity 4: Presentation of results |
| 12:30 – 12:40 |
Open Discussion and Feedback
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| 12:40 – 12:45 |
Conclusion and Wrap-up
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15 minutes Break |
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| Plenary Session II: Strategizing, Setting Priorities Main Plenary Platform |
Visioning Moderator Dr. Rami Salameh, Individual Consultant, Arab Water Council |
| 13:00 – 13:10 |
Description of “Strategizing” Steps Dr. Rami Salameh, Individual Consultant, Arab Water Council |
| Moving to Task Force Platforms | |
| 13:10-14:10 | Activity 1: Defining Strategic Objectives |
| 14:10-14:40 | Activity 2: Interactive Exercise: Voting on top 3 Strategic Objectives |
| Moving To Plenary Session Platform | |
| 14:40-15:25 | Activity 3: Presentation of Results |
| 15:25-15:35 | Open Discussion and Feedback Dr. Rami Salameh, Individual Consultant, Arab Water Council |
| 15:35-15:45 |
Wrap up of the Day Prof. Walid Abderrahman, Vice President, Arab Water Council |
| 15:45 | End of Day 2 |
| Plenary Session I: Detailed Planning, Time to Act Main Plenary Platform |
Moderator: Arab Water Council |
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| 9:30 – 9:45 | Recap, 3rd Day Agenda and Description of “Planning” Steps Dr. Rami Salameh, Individual Consultant, Arab Water Council |
| Moving to Task Force Platforms | |
| 9:45 – 10:45 | Activity 1: Preparatory Planning: Defining Key Activities |
| 10:45 – 11:45 | Activity 2: Detailed Planning: Drafting of Proposed Plans |
| 11:45-12:00 | Activity 3: Interactive Exercise: Voting and prioritization of the top 5 challenges |
| Moving To Plenary Platform | |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Activity 4: Presentation of results |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | Open Discussion and Feedback Dr. Rami Salameh, Individual Consultant, Arab Water Council |
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15 minutes Break |
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| Plenary Session II: Launching the Regional Climate Security Network Main Plenary Platform |
Moderator Dr. Hussein Al-Atfy, Secretary General, Arab Water Council |
| 13:00 – 13:20 | Summarizing Main Findings and Conclusions |
| 13:20 – 13:40 | Launching the Regional Climate Security Network |
| 13:40 – 13:50 | Interactive Exercise: Workshop Evaluation |
| 13:50 – 14:00 | Closing Remarks (AWC, LAS, UNDP) |
Thematic Task Force Working Groups
Integrated Task Force Approach
The Dialogue is intended to adopt a nexus approach in designing the Climate Security Policy Framework for the Arab region that addresses current gaps in technical capacity, institutional setups and political approaches to policy formation and cooperation. The participants will be divided into Task Forces that will discuss critical themes in their inter-linkages and inter-connections with those addressed with each other. Below is a small description of the how the main topic of Climate Security will be addressed under each theme.
Climate security is causing additional water stress in a region that is already extremely affected by water scarcity. The arid to semi-arid climate, the lack of renewable water resources that lie within the boundaries of the Arab countries, as well as the increasing pressure on groundwater resources, some of which are non-renewable, are all contributing factors to water scarcity.
Fast growing populations and economies increase the overall water demand, as agricultural systems need to be able to boost food production in order to ensure food security in the region. To do this, a massive enhancement of crop water use efficiency is required, as agricultural production is directly affected by water stress. Several countries of the Arab world still lack the means and capacity to ensure access to sufficient potable water and safe drinking water for all their citizens. The pollution of water resources places a further limitation on water use, while rising sea levels are heightening salinity levels in coastal groundwater aquifers and soils. The destruction of ecosystem health and loss of biodiversity are affecting the ability of ecosystems to provide vital ecosystem services through a balanced water cycle that enables water purification services.
Water stress can impact population groups differently, as especially the poor and marginalized, as well as vulnerable groups, such as women, children, or refugees face a lack of secure water access and the financial means to cope with water-related climate change effects such as floods, salinity, or droughts. As many of the Arab world’s water resources are transboundary, effective sharing agreements between countries is a key issue. Water stress also has an impact on energy, as hydro-electricity is a principal energy generation mechanism in the region.
Many of the technical actions needed to address these challenges are well defined. We now need to develop the strategic institutional tools to be able to implement water stress-related actions through a regional policy framework that enables integrated, concerted, and targeted action across the region.
The Arab world has the highest food-deficit and is the highest food-importing region globally. The average annual increase in the food production and consumption gap is increasing throughout the past few years.
Climate change is expected to impact the region’s agriculture and food production systems, with potentially severe negative impacts on food security, as it affects food prices, labor productivity, water supplies and livelihoods. Food security includes food production, as well as the social and economic access to sufficient food that meets the dietary needs and food preferences of all groups and populations across the Arab region. Water scarcity, temperature rise, sea level rise and an increase in extreme weather events including storms, floods and droughts threaten the development and maintenance of sustainable food production systems in a region where arable land is extremely limited. Beyond that, rising food prices following decreased production levels, harvest losses, changes on global food markets, or fluctuations in energy and transportation costs, are having a detrimental effect on the livelihoods of poor and vulnerable population groups.
Fast population growth across the region enhances the overall food needs, as well as the requirement to boost food production, which is a serious challenge, given the region’s limited resources that are now under additional stress from climate change effects. Conflict, displacement, and forced migration can hinder the safe and efficient distribution of food to all population groups, particularly the vulnerable ones.
Political tensions and conflict between nations across the Arab region impact food imports and exports, as more collaboration is needed to ensure the regional distribution of food.
Food safety is another important aspect of food security. Pollution and a lack of food safety standards can considerably lower food quality and impact human health. The Arab region is facing numerous health problems such as obesity, undernourishment, malnourishment, and the stunting of children, the latter three of which are experienced disproportionately by vulnerable groups.
This Task Force group brings together food experts to identify technical tools, institutional capacities and political mechanisms needed to guarantee that food security can be ensured as a central aspect of climate security, always integrating food security with the themes addressed by the other Task Forces.
Our energy systems, including industry and transportation systems, rely by around 80% on the use of fossil fuels. The combustion of fossil fuels releases CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, upsetting the carbon cycle and causing global warming.
For countries to keep global warming well under 2 °C as compared to pre-industrial levels in order to abate destructive climate change effects (such as rising temperatures, changes in precipitation and rain patterns, or frequently occurring extreme weather events), wide-reaching transformations in the energy sector are required.
The economies of several countries in the region are based on the drilling and export of oil and gas, meaning that energy transformations towards renewable energy can have wide-reaching economic effects. Changes in available technologies, public services, and consumer behavior regarding energy consumption are required in order to ratify the Paris Agreement. These can be supported by policy instruments such as tax incentives, loans, or aid programs, as well as the support of renewable energy-related industries.
The region faces a challenge of distributing affordable and clean energy to all population groups, especially vulnerable groups that are still facing energy shortages. Achieving this with a net zero carbon footprint is a serious challenge. Financing the transformations that are needed in the energy sector can be a burden for poor and marginalized groups, who do not have the financial means to achieve the needed investments, and are already struggling to cope with energy price increases, and to face climate change-induced impacts on their livelihoods.
Energy prices have wide-reaching effects on social well-being, as they immediately impact transportation and food prices. As 30% of the region’s agricultural systems depend on irrigation, food production is closely linked with water pumping, and therefore with energy. Hydroelectricity plays a significant role in the region’s energy mix and thus water shortages can have a detrimental effect on energy production.
Participants of this Task Force will come together to define technical, institutional, and political challenges that are limiting the implementation of sustainable energy policies. What needs to be identified are the tangible, integrated, and targeted tools to implement planned sustainable energy policies.
Climate change phenomena, such as rising temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns and rainfalls, sea level rise, and the increase in extreme and destructive weather, have an immediate impact on social security and wellbeing. Climate change-related effects, both events of a catastrophic nature and slower incremental changes, can destroy livelihoods. Natural disasters can cause a loss of life immediately leaving large parts of the population homeless, which becomes a driver for force migration.
As climate change may render parts of the Arab region uninhabitable, the region needs to be prepared for waves of climate-induced. This comes at a time where political instability and armed conflict are already destabilizing the region, causing a major displacement of people, and leaving countries already dealing with resource scarcity scrambling to host large numbers of refugees.
Challenges of water security, food security and energy provision, addressed by the three other Task Forces, are intricately linked with social cohesion. A competition over scarcer resources in the region can lead to competition and conflict, both within and across countries.
Moreover, a lack of water, food and energy, intensified by climate change, further enhances the struggle to eradicate poverty and hunger, and to create safe, healthy and prosperous livelihoods for all parts of Arab populations.
Research has shown that women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and water scarcity as compared to men. Therefore, the policy tools addressing climate security must be gender-sensitive and must foster gender equity. Gender equity concerns access to resources, carrying the socio-economic burdens caused by climate change, protection from climate change-related risks, and inclusion in framing and implementing climate security strategies.
Climate change implications necessitate an enhanced functioning social protection, health and disaster relief systems, education about climate change and its effects, as well as equal access to financial mechanisms for coping with climate change.
In this Task Force working group, the aim is to identify technical capacities, institutional frameworks and political tools that address social climate security challenges through a nexus approach that integrates the themes addressed by the other three Task Forces.
Speakers and Moderators
H. E. Dr. Mahmoud Abu-Zeid, President, AWC
Amb. Nada Al Agizy, Director, Sustainable Development and International Cooperation, LAS
Ms. Paola Pagliani, Regional Programme Coordinator at the UNDP Regional Hub, UNDP
Ms. Sujala Pant, Chief Technical Advisor and Regional Project Manager, UNDP
Dr. Wadid Erian, Senior Advisor, Sustainable Development and International Cooperation, LAS
Dr. Adel Farid Abdel-Kader, Senior Advisor Environment and Sustainable Development
Prof. Walid Abderrahman, Vice President, AWC
Prof. Safwat Abdel Dayem, Senior Advisor and Board of Governor, AWC
Dr. Hussein Al-Atfy, Secretary General, AWC
Dr. Amgad E Mahdi, Director of MENA Region, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Prof. Khaled Abu Zeid, Regional Technical Director, AWC, Water Director, CEDARE
Dr. Roula Khadra, Senior Researcher & International Officer – Water Resources Management., CIHEAM-Bari
Dr. Maged Mahmoud, Technical Director and Acting Executive Director, The Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE)
Dr. Martina Sherin Jaskolski, UNDP Consultant for AWC, UNDP
Participants
Task Force 1: Climate Security and Water Stress
Eng. Ali Ghanim, Director of Drought Management Governance Unit, Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Jordan
Dr. Saddam Kahtan, Strategic Studies Department, Ministry of Water Resources – Planning and Follow-up Department , Iraq
Dr. Ghufran Dheyab Abdullhussein, Environment Policies Department, Ministry of Water Resources – Planning and Follow-up Department ,Iraq
Dr. Muath Abu Sada, Technical Advisor Water and Climate Change, Palestinian Water Authority
Prof. Wael Khairy, Associate Professor, National Water Research Center – Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Egypt
Dr. Mohamed Abdel Hamyd Dawoud, Advisor – Water Resources Environment Quality, Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi
Amin Mohammed Al-Hammadi, Director General of Monitoring and Evaluation, Public Authority for Water and Environment
Dr. Ali Karnib, Professor of Engineering, Lebanese University, Lebanon
Mr. Fadi Jannan, Deputy Chief of Regional Office for Arab States, UNDRR
Mr. Vinay Nangia, Research Team Leader – Soil Water and Agronomy (SWA), ICARDA
Dr. Amgad El Mahdi, Head of MENA Region Principal Researcher-Water Solutions, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Prof. Safwat ABDEL-DAYEM, Professor Emeritus, National Water Research Center, Egypt
Prof. Khaled Abu Zeid, Regional Technical Director, AWC, Water Director, CEDARE
Mone El Agizy, Senior Water & Climate Specialist, CEDARE
Dr. Ayman AYAD, Water and Utilities Sector Manager, Delegation of the European Union to Egypt
Dr. Kamel AMER, Head of the Middle Region Office, Water Resources Expert, Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD)
Dr. Mohamed Bayoumi, Assistant Resident Representative, UNDP
Dr. Siddig Eissa, Director General, UNESCO Chair in Water Resources – Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan
Eng. Ahmed Hassan, Director of Hydrometeorology Department, Ministry of Energy ad Water Resources, Somalia
Marisa Escobar, Water Program Director, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Dr. Najwa Bourawi, Head of APEDDUB, Association pour la Protection de l’Environnement et le Developpement Durable de Bizerte (AEDDUB)
Solène Coma, Project Manager Vision Development, TPAD
Charfeddine Yakoubi ,Head of Mission, TPAD
Dr. Mary Halim, Documentation and Publishing Consultant, AWC
Nuran Ashraf Atef, Project Coordinator- SDG Climate Facility: Climate Action for Human Security, UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
Dr. Madiha Darwish, Egypt
Dr. Sandy Ardo, Environmental Specialist, Ministry of Environment, Lebanon
Task Force 2: Climate Security and Food Security
Eng. Shawkat Jameel, Head Of Section For Water Management, Ministry of Agriculture, Iraq
Ibtisam AbuHaija, Director of Climate Change Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Palestine
Dr. Aly El-Bahrawy, Professor of Hydraulics, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Dr. Ali AbouSabaa, General Director, (ICARDA)
Oscar Ekdahl, Regional Programme Officer for Disaster Risk, World Food Program (WFP)
Dr. Roula Khadra, Senior Researcher & International Officer – Water Resources Management., CIHEAM-Bari
Mr. Ahmed Ayoub, CIHEAM-Bari
Dr. Ismail Abdel Galil, Director, Arab Water Academy (AWA)
Dr. Elias Ghadban, Regional Advisor for Food Security Issues, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
Omar ElBadawy, Regional Land Resources Program Manager, CEDARE
Prof. Abdelaziz Ibrahim, Emeritus Professor, Water Resources Economics Institute of National Planning, Egypt
Dr. Elias Salameh, Research Professor, University of Jordan and National Center for Research & Development (NCRD)
Abdullahi Elmi Mohamed, Team Lead for Water Management Project, World Bank
Holger Hoff, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Dr. Chadi Abdallah, Natural Hazards, Remote Sensing & GIS, (CNRS)
Haitham Abdel Azzim, Egyptian Forum for Sustainable Development
Dr. Ziad Alawneh, Earth and Human Society to Support Development
Dr. Mohamed Fattouhi,CMED Président, RAED Deputy General Coordinator, CMED & RAED
Task Force 3: Climate Security and Energy Security
Mr. Karim Ousseiran, Ministry of Energy and Water, Lebanon
Prof. Nadim Farajallah, Director Climate Change and Environment Program, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs American University of Beirut (AUB)
Yacoub Marar, Director of Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Department, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Jordan
Mr. Taheri Rashid, Head of the Climate Change Department in the Environment Sector, Ministry of Energy, Morocco
Dr. Jassim Aal Falahi, Minister Deputy, MOHEn, Iraq
Dr. Qasim Kadhim Hunehen, Assistant Director General, Planning & Studies Office, Ministry of Electricity, Iraq
Basel Yaseen, General Director, Palestinian Energy Authority
Dr. Mohammed El-Khayat, Executive Chairman NREA and Chair of Renewable Energy and Energy efficiency of Arab Experts Committee, New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA), League of Arab States (LAS)
Mr. Dustin Schinn, Regional Climate Change Specialist, UNDP
Mr. Maged Mahmoud, Technical Director and Acting Executive Director, The Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE)
Dr. Ahmed Abd El Rasoul, The Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE)
Hossam Allam, Regional Programme Manager, CEDARE
Abdulkani Rageh, National Coordinator, UN Joint Programme on Charcoal Reduction
Annette Huber-Lee, Senior Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Dr. Emad Adly, The Arab Network for Environment and Development (RAED)
Abdelmajid Jemai, Environment and Management of Natural Resources Expert, TPAD
Mr. Mohammad Redah, Arab Office for Youth and the Environment
Dr. Tharwat Mokalled, Air Quality Chemical Specialist, Ministry of Environment, Lebanon
Yasir Abdalla Saied, Renewable Energy Director General, Sudan Electricity Holding Company and Ministry of Energy and Mining, Sudan
Task Force 4: Climate Security, Social Cohesion and Gender Equity
Sherif Dawoud, Sustainable Development Unit, Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, Egypt
Mrs Ban Abood, Head of Sustainable Development Department, Ministry of Planning, Iraq
Hadeel Khamess, Head of Climate Change Section, Environment Quality Authority, Palestine
Eng. Khaled Alshatarat, Environment Expert, Planning and Statistics Authority, Qatar
Ms. Sujala Pant, Chief Technical Advisor and Regional Project Manager, UNDP
Jean D’Cunha, Senior Global Advisor on International Migration, Regional Office for Arab States (ROAS), UN Women
Dr. Martina Sherin Jaskolski , UNDP Consultant for AWC, UNDP
Yara El Nagdi, Project Officer, AWC
Shaddin Almasri, Jordan
Mr. Camilo Tellez Robayo, Associate Programme Officer – Partnership, UNDRR
Nisreen Lahham, Regional Project Manager for ReWater MENA Project, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Dr. Hala Yousry, Social Expert
Sara SADEK, Regional SDGs and Conflict Research Consultant, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
David James ARNOLD, Regional Emergency and Post-Crisis Officer, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Azin EMAMI, Intern, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Raffaele BERTINI, Consultant, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Amr Abdel Megeed, Regional Program Manager, CEDARE
Badra Yusuf, Independent Researcher
Ghada Ahmadein, Program Manager, The Arab Network for Environment and Development (RAED)
Hamdi Hached, Conflict Management Expert, TPAD
Aouatef Mabrouk , Gender Expert, TPAD
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