Gender - Training and Events on Gender

Events: April 29 - May 7
Gender sessions offered during the PREM Knowledge & Learning Forum 2009
- Leadership at a Time of Economic Crisis: The Role of Women, May 4, 4:30-6:30
- Maintaining Productive Employment During Times of Crisis, April 29, 9:00-5:00
- The Employment Lab: New Diagnostic Tools for Employment Focused Development, May 1, 9:00-12:00
- Poverty Social Impact Analysis, May 7, 9:00-5:00

Events: June 2-3, 2009
World Bank Leads on Cutting Edge Research:Female Entrepreneurship - Constraints and Opportunities

03.10.09 Women with Disabilities in Development International Roundtable

03.05.09 BBL: Gender Implications of the Financial and Food Crisis - Women In 33 Countries Highly Vulnerable To Financial Crisis Effects

02.25.09 Care Economy Brainstorming Session

02.19.09 The Gender and Public Sector Governance Groups of the PREM Network present: "Do women make a difference in parliamentary politics?"

02.19.09 Book Launch: Girls’ Education in the 21st Century: Gender Equality, Empowerment, and Economic Growth- video links (intranet)

12.11.08 - 12.12.08 Gender and Taxation: Improving Equity and Revenue Generation

11.10.08 - 11.11.08 Multilateral Development Bank's (MDB's) Workshop: Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Infrastructure

11.06.08 - 11.07.08 Mining and Sustainable Development

10.10.08 From school to quality work, an initiative to empower adolescent girls

09.30.08 Gender-based Violence and Opportunities for World Bank Action: Challenges and New Approaches

07.10.08 LCR Learning Events Series "Boys’ Underperformance in School and Gender Differences in the Returns to Education: Implications for Poverty Reduction"

Past Major Events

FY08 Training Events

Research Seminar: International Migration of Women, August 2006

High-Level Consultation: Gender MDG(February 11, 2006)

Gender and Economics Policy Training (including regional workshops), 2005 - current

Information and Communication Technologies and Gender Seminars

Development Implications of Gender-Based Violence WorkshopNov 2004

MDG Workshop 2003

Videos on gender seminars (B-Span)

Gender Action Plan
The empowerment of women is smart economics. Studies show that investments in women yield large social and economic returns. Learn more.

Investing in adolescent girlsbreaks intergenerational cycles of poverty with long term benefits for poverty reduction.

Gender in:

AFR
EAP
ECA

LAC
MENA
SA

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