| § March 8: A formal intervention during the high-level plenary meeting, consisting of a statement describing the Bank’s commitment to the Beijing Platform for Action and the MDGs. The statement will provide an overview of the World Bank’s progress towards implementing the Beijing Platform for Action in its lending and advisory work. It will also present the World Bank’s approach to addressing obstacles to achieving the BPfA, including a discussion of the emerging challenges for achieving gender equality.
Improving Women’s Lives: A Forward-Looking Assessment, a statement delivered by A. Waafas Ofosu-Amaah, Sector Manager (Acting), Gender and Development Group, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank (PDF 38KB)
§ March 2, 3-6 pm: Participation in the panel, “Remaining challenges in relation to statistics and indicators.” Presentation given by Lucia Fort, Senior Gender Specialist, Gender and Development, World Bank;
The objective of the panel was to build on the discussions held at the 48th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which discussed the remaining challenges in using statistics and indicators to measure progress towards the BPfA and Beijing + 5. Expert panelists and participants identified good practice examples as well as priority areas for further action. Specific issues that were addressed include: collaboration strategies between the producers and users of statistics; the effective use of databases as monitoring tools; strategies for the production and use of sex-disaggregated data; and using gender-specific information to implement and monitor all the MDGs.
§ March 10, 10-1 pm: Participation in the high-level panel on “Integration of gender perspectives in macro-economics." Presentation given by Danny Leipziger, Vice President, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank.
According to the UN Division for the Advancement of Women, the objective of the panel is to highlight ways and means to identify and integrate gender perspectives into macroeconomic policies and programs, including further clarifying the linkages between macroeconomic and social issues. Panelists and participants will discuss achievements, gaps and challenges in incorporating gender perspectives into macroeconomic policies and programs and in linking economic and social development in the promotion of gender equality and the achievement of the MDGs.
Written statements submitted by:
Nenadi E. Usman, Minister of State for Finance, Nigeria (PDF 79KB)
Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India (PDF 72KB)
Marco Ferroni, Sustainable Development Department, Inter-American Development Bank (106KB)
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