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Learning Events FY08

This is a list of recent/upcoming internal events related to development economics research at the Bank. You can find a list of previous events below. 

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Venue
TitleType

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

Workshop: Analytical and Operational Insights on Women's Entrepreneurship in Africa

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:  Lessons from Afghanistan"
Jennifre Solotaroff, SASDS
Luica Fort, PRMGE  

South Asia Social Development & Gender Seminars Series
 
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
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Expanding Knowledge About Women’s Access to Resources for Productivity and GrowthTTL Contact: Lucia Fort, Gender Learning Specialist, PRMGE
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April 16, 2008, 10:00am - 11:30am, MC-13-121Gender 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
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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
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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

 

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

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Open to the public


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


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

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February 2007

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.

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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


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
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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
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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

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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

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Seminar

October 2007

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

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

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

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)

 

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
  • Partnerships for Gender Equality

    Presentation Materials|Website|Resources
Workshop

Registration for non-World Bank staff is by invitation only

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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

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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

July 2007
July 26, 2007  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


 

Last updated: 2007-11-21




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