USAID's Bureau for Food Security and Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance invite you to participate in the rollout of two assessments that have examined USAID's past performance with respect to gender integration into agriculture and food security. From these assessments, USAID has developed a series of briefs to help USAID field staff and >> Read more
Event (DC): Passports to Progress ICRW’s 35th Anniversary Colloquy
Join ICRW as we kick off our 35th anniversary celebration on March 8, International Women’s Day, with a conversation about breakthrough innovations poised to transform the trajectory of women’s lives. Game-changing Innovations for Women Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Host, MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" Confirmed Speakers: Cherie Blair, Founder, Cherie Blair >> Read more
Event (Uganda) Learning Route: Gender and rural microfinance – New approaches, services and products in Africa
Uganda, March 12th to 20th. Organized by FAO, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the PROCASUR Corporation. In the framework of the Regional Capacity-building and Knowledge Management for Gender Equality Programme, FAOIFAD and PROCASUR launch the Learning Route: Gender and rural microfinance – New approaches, services and products in Africa, a practitioner-to-practitioner training >> Read more
Event (DC): On the Origins of Gender Roles–Women and the Plough
Alberto Alesina (Harvard University) Paola Giuliano (UCLA) Nathan Nunn (Harvard University) Wednesday, Jan 18, 2010 World Bank Room MC3-570, from 12:30 to 2:00 PM Female labor force participation can be influenced by persistent differences in cultural norms about the perception of women in society. We empirically examine where these differences come from. Central to >> Read more
Event: 2011 GLOBAL SUMMIT OF WOMEN
Istanbul Turkey May 5-7, 2011 The Global Summit of Women was conceived as the nexus at which all sectors – public, private and nonprofit – would come together under the common vision of dramatically expanding women’s economic opportunities globally through exchanges of working solutions and creative strategies forged by women leaders in different parts of >> Read more
Event: International Conference 2011 Ethnographies of Gender and Conflict
6-8 July, Amsterdam After our successful international conference Ethnographies of Gender and Globalization in 2008, Lova presents another opportunity for researchers to come together in the city of Amsterdam. From 6-8 July, our 2nd international conference: Ethnographies of Gender and Conflict will take place.
Event (DC): “The Gender Implications of Large Scale Land Deals”
Abstract: Given the growing attention to large scale land deals (‘land grabs’), this paper strives to introduce a discussion of the gender dimensions of land deals into the debate. This paper addresses the current information gap on the differential gender effects of large scale land deals that apply in each phase large scale land deals, >> Read more
Event: TEDx ‘Igniting Change: the Gender Match’
Over the past few decades, development researchers and practitioners have spent countless resources trying to identify the perfect recipe for development policies and programs to follow when tackling food security, malnutrition, and poverty in poor countries. In this talk, we turn to three speakers from the development research community who make the powerful argument that >> Read more
Event: TEDWomen Reshaping the Future
How are women and girls reshaping the future? The first-ever TEDWomen invites men and women to explore this question in depth. From the developing world, where a single microloan to a single girl can transform a village, to the West, where generations of educated women are transforming entire industries, women are powerful change agents, intellectual >> Read more
Event (DC): Manal Omar discusses Iraq, Women and Identity on
Tuesday, November 9 at 12pm in J1-050 Auditorium RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org or click here. AUTHOR: Manal Omar Director of Iraq Programs, United States Institute of Peace Ms. Omar has worked with Women for Women International, a nonprofit NGO, as Regional Coordinator for Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sudan. Formerly a journalist, she began work in Iraq in >> Read more
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- …
- 32
- Next Page »