Date &
Venue | Title | Type |
May 2008 |
May 29,
Time: 9:00-12:00pmYokohama Grand Intercontinental Hotel, Room Pearl | TICAD Side Event: The Role of Infrastructure in Women's Economic Empowerment
The seminar will present effective approaches to enhance women's economic empowerment through infrastructure and will examine how the inclusion of women in infrastructure decision-making through the project cycle affects project outcomes and sustainability. This seminar will provide lessons, evidence, good practices, and training tools from the World Bank Group, bilateral donors such as JBIC/JICA, and other agencies. The session will be chaired by Ms. Obi Ezekwesili, the ice President of Africa Region, World Bank | Open to the public |
May 21- 22, 2008
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
| Africa Entrepreneurship workshop in Ethiopia was organized as part of the capacity building component under the Gender Action Plan, May 20-22. It brought together World Bank and IFC staff, women entrepreneurs, government officials and experts from other organizations to share analytical works and best practices on private sector and entrepreneurship development in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. |  |  |
April 2008 |
April 30,
12:30-2:00p.m.
MC10-850 | "Operationalizing COuntry Gender Assessments:Â Lessons from Afghanistan"
Jennifre Solotaroff, SASDS
Luica Fort, PRMGE Â
South Asia Social Development & Gender Seminars Series | Â |
April 21
Time: 9:00-12:00pm
Location: MC 4-100
April 23
Time: 9:00-12:00pm
| PREM Learning Week CoursesIntegrating Gender into Country-Level Macroeconomic Tools in Sub-Saharan AfricaTTL Contact: Elena Bardasi, Senior Economist, PRMGE
>> Enroll Now
Expanding Knowledge About Women’s Access to Resources for Productivity and GrowthTTL Contact: Lucia Fort, Gender Learning Specialist, PRMGE
>> >> Enroll Now | Not open to the public |
| April 16, 2008, 10:00am - 11:30am, MC-13-121 | Gender Equality Is Smart Economics- But How Do We Get It Done?
Panelists: Clare Logie, Director, Women in Business, Bank of Scotland and Global Banking Alliance for Women, UKMario Marcel,Sector Manager, Institutional Capacity and Finance Sector, IADB, USAJonathan Ortmans,President, Public Forum Institute, USAChair: Jim Adams, Regional Vice President, East Asia Region, World Bank
More Information>>PREM Week 2008 | Not open to the public |
April 11, 2008
3:30 - 6:45 PM in MC 4-800.
| Ways to Bridge Gender Gaps
Sessions will discuss two policy approaches to promote women's economic empowerment: a) economic empowerment of adolescent girls by using demand-side incentives such as conditional cash transfers; and (b) promoting women's entrepreneurship by reducing regulatory and legal constraints to doing business.
The event comes on the margins of the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings, and several development ministers will join World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick in participating in the session panels.More information on Ways to Bridge Gender Gaps
To register, send e-mail togenderequality@worldbank.org
Contact:spanjsheri@worldbank.org | 
PRMGE sponsoredOpen to the public |
April 10, 2008
12:30 – 2:00pm Room: MC 9-300N | South Asia Social Development & Gender Seminar Series -
Policy Handles for Reducing the Daughter Deficit in India Speaker: Monica Das Gupta
Development Research Group (DECRG) Discussant: Sonalde Desai
Associate Professor, University of Maryland Chair:Dan Biller
South Asia Sustainable Development Group | Â |
March 2008 |
March 25, 2008
8:30a.m.-3:30p.m. MC13-121 | Gender, Poverty and DemographyWorkshop
Sponsored by PRMGE and DECRG
Contact:ucasabonne@worldbank.org |
PRMGE co-sponsored
Open to the public |
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March 3, 2008
12:30pm to 2:00pm
MC 10-100 | Making Women Entrepreneurs
AIDOS Experience in Creating Business Incubation Clusters
Daniela Colombo (AIDOS President)
Paola Cirillo (AIDOS Economist) | BBL Not open to the public |
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March 5, 2008
9:00a.m.-2:00p.m.
I Building
| The Power of Creating Economic Opportunities for Women: Innovative Approaches in Latin America and the Caribbean
Agenda
For further information and/or to register, please contact Grace Fonseca atgfonseca@worldba | Training
PRMGE co-sponsored
Not open to the public |
February 2007 |
February 7-11
Cape Town
South Africa  | Leveling the playing field for women's economic and social progress
Presentation by  Amanda Ellis - Vital Voices |
PRMGE co-sponsored
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Gender sessions during the Social Development Week 2008
http://sdnweek
(internal site) | Gender and Infrastructure: Making Infrastructure work for women and men. Friday February 22 from 11 am to 12.30 pm, roomI2-250
Gender and CDD: Does unfettered CDD hurt Women more than it helps them? Friday February 22 from 11 am at H Auditorium
Gender and Economic Empowerment: The Role of ICTs, February 22 from 11 am to 2:00p.m.
| Training
PRMGE co-sponsored
PRMGE co-sponsored
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Dec 2007 |
Dec 14, 2007
12:30-2:00p.m. | Empowered Women and the Men Behind Them:Creating Gender Equality in Forestry in Nepal Jeannette D. Gurung, PhD, Director, Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and NRM (WOCAN)
Contact: or 202-331-9099 | GENRD BBL |
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Dec 3, 2007
MC 10-850 | South Asia Sustainable Development Brown Bag Seminar -
"Son Preference and Daughter Discrimination in India:
The Ideology, the Practice and the Policy" Speaker: Rohini Pande, International Center for Research on Women | BBL |
November 2007 |
Nov.29,
2007
12:00-2:00p.m. J1-050 | Gender Roles, Gender Equality Exhibit and Discussion
Speakers:
Ulla Lemberg, Photographer
Mayra Buvinic, Sector Director, Gender and Development
Erik Eldhagen, Senior Advisor to the Executive Director
| infoShop Event |
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Nov. 28
2007
12:00-2:00pm | Book Launch "International Migration of Women"
Edited by Andrew R. Morrison, Maurice Schiff and Mirja Sjöblom
It is estimated that more than 190 million people--3 percent of the world's population-- presently live outside their country of birth. Of these international migrants, close to one half are women. Despite the great number of female migrants, there has been a striking lack of gender analysis in the economic literature on international migration and development.
This volume analyzes the determinants and implications of women's migration in various parts of the world. It discusses topics such as the gendered determinants of remittances, the labor market performance of female migrants and policy options to enhance the benefit of female migration in destination and source countries.
Contact:www.worldbank.org/infoshop | infoShop Event
PRMGE co-sponsored |
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Nov. 8, 2007
12:00 - 2:00p.m.
Room J1-050 | Book Launch"Gender and Economic Growth in Tanzania"
Video Contact:www.worldbank.org/infoshop | infoShop Event |
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Nov. 6, 2007
2 - 4 pm
Room I2 - 220 | Economic, Livelihood and Environmental Aspects of the Solid Waste Informal Sector - Global Survey and Economic Modeling - including Cairo, Cluj-Napoca, Lima, Lusaka, Manila, and Pune. Ann Scheinberg, WASTES Advisors of the Netherlands
Facilitated By: Sandra Cointreau, Solid Waste Advisor, FEU External Participants Welcome, for Visitor Pass contact Adelaide Barra -abarra@worldbank.org
Website| | Seminar |
October 2007 |
| Â | Report on Global Gender Gaps - October 2007, Washington DC - World Economic Forum | PRMGE Â |
October 25th,
12.30 - 2pm
Room MC 4-100 | "A Gendered Assessment of The Brain Drain"
Sponsor: Migration and Development Thematic Group.
Presenter: Frederic Docquier ( DECRG)
Contact: Grace Doria Ilogon at gilogon@worldbank.org  | BBL |
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October 24
12:30 - 2:00 PM Room MC4-100 | DECVP Poverty and Applied Micro Seminar Series - Who Does Microfinance Fail to Reach? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns Suresh de Mel (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)
David McKenzie (World Bank)
Christopher Woodruff (UCSD) Copies of the paper can be obtained from Yasmin D'Souza: ydsouza@worldbank.org | BBL |
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October 18th, 2007 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
**IFPRI Training Center | Gender and Rural Financeby Dr. Linda Mayoux, International Consultant, Poverty, Gender, Enterprise Development and Impact Assessment
Co-sponsored by IFPRI, World Bank, and IFAD | BBL |
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October 10, 12:30 to 2 pm.
Room MC 10-850 | "The Changing Face of Bangladesh: Gender Equality and Social Transformation" Speaker: Maitreyi Das, Senior Social Sector Specialist, the World Bank Discussant: Christine Wallich, Senior Adviser, and former Country Director for Bangladesh, the World Bank
Presentation Materials(PDF 510KB) | Â |
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Oct. 2-3, 2007
MC2-800
| Global Symposium - Education: A Critical Path to Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment
The symposium aims to re-energize the discourse on gender equality in education and identify ways to accelerate the global response to persistent and emerging challenges that constrain the empowerment of women and their contribution to development.
Discussion themes: Quality and Gender Equality for Development Access and Retention of Excluded Groups Post-primary Education Transition from School to Work Emerging Issues: HIV/AIDS, Violence, Conflict Interventions that Work
| Workshop
Registration for non-World Bank staff is by invitation only
PRMGE co-sponsored |
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Oct.2, 2007 Tuesday
2 -4 pm
Room I 1 - 200 | Waste Picking and Recycling - Social Inclusion and Gender Activities Facilitated by:Sandra Cointreau, Solid Waste Advisor
Website|Contact | Seminar |
September 2007 |
Sept. 13, 2007
1:00-2:30
I8 - 350 | Discussion on Gender Mainstreaming
Dr. Ginny Seitz the Director of Social and Gender Assessment, Millennium Challenge Corporation
& Mayra Buvinic, Sector Director, PRMGE, World Bank This is the second seminar the Bank is hosting in a joint seminar series with IFPRI and IFAD Presentation Materials
| BBL
Not open to the public |
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| July 26, 2007Â Â | The World's Scavengers: Salvaging for Sustainable Consumption and Production Presentation by Martin Medina
Video and Slides
 | BBL |
July 03, 2007
12:30-2:00
MC 5-100 | Making Better Links: Gender Mainstreaming in Value Chain Development
Dr. Linda Catherine Mayoux, International Consultant Poverty, Gender, Enterprise Development and Impact Assessment
Presentation Materials | BBL Not open to the public |
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