Poverty alleviation and equal opportunity interventions are more efficient, effective and sustainable when women and men contribute equally to development. The LAC Gender Team promotes the inclusion of a gender perspective in development interventions by producing and providing gender disaggregated evidence for policy making; by developing and providing tools and expertise to identify and unlock barriers to women’s economic, social, and political participation; by sharing knowledge and experience on good practices; and, by making gender visible and relevant in monitoring and evaluation processes.
Regional Caribbean Initiative on Keeping Boys Out of Risk
The World Bank and the Commonwealth Secretariat have joined forces to work on a Regional Caribbean Initiative on Keeping Boys Out of Risk.
This joint initiative seeks to address the emerging cross-cutting problem of boys at risk in Latin America and the Caribbean as a gender issue related to development challenges such as alienation of boys from education and drop-out from schools, crime and violence, male marginalization, access to the labor market, and poverty alleviation.
Based on an integrated and constructive approach to youth at risk, this initiative includes a contest to identify successful programs, a high level conference, a best-practices fair, adoption of a common platform for action and the development of dissemination materials.
The Benifits and Challenges of South South Learning: The Regional Caribbean Initiative on Keeping Boys Out of Risk was showcased at the World Bank’s Annual Meetings as a promising South-South learning and knowledge exchange. Video clips featuring the coordinators as well as beneficiaries were produced to address benefits, challenges and lessons learned of the knowledge exchange. + More
Boys Out of Risk Resource Kit The Kit provides stakeholders across sectors with useful information for their work related to the cross-cutting development challenge of keeping youth out of risk. It draws upon existing knowledge and innovative best practices in the region, as well as the outcomes of the May 2009 Regional Caribbean Conference on Keeping Boys Out of Risk. + Resource Kit
Economy of Care Research Program The increasing need for care comes from both, the withdrawing of the State and the lack of social protection mechanism; and the demographic changes taking place in several middle-income countries. + more...
Firm Certification Models on Gender Equality for the Private Sector Seminar On June 12, 2008 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the World Bank, together with the National Institute against Discrimination from the Ministry of Justice in Argentina organized the international seminar: Firm Certification Models on Gender Equality for the Private Sector. More than 100 representatives from private firms.... + more...
Childcare Policies and Gender Equality Exchange of Approaches and Experiences between Europe and Central Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean Regions. Adequate childcare provisions are a key issue for development, not only for the well being of children, but also for their relation with women’s productive and reproductive time allocation possibilities. + more...
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