I am delighted to share this announcement for an upcoming session of the Gender and Development Seminar Series co-hosted by the World Bank and Plan International USA. Full details for this event are available below. If you have any questions about the series or would like to RSVP, please contact Mame Niasse mniasse@worldbank.org.
Best,
Ariana Childs Graham
Coordinator, Coalition for Adolescent Girls
Presenters
Ravi Karkara, Expert Advisor on Children and Youth, UNICEF
Sarah Hendriks, Global Gender Advisor, Plan International
Gary Baker, International Director Instituto Promundo-US, MenCare Campaign
Attitudes are hard to shift. Gender roles and social norms are reproduced across generations. Change requires the involvement of girls and boys, men and women. This seminar will examine approaches to working with boys and young men to break the cycle of inequality and violence that moves down the generations from father to son. The seminar will draw from research and case studies in the recently released report Because I am a Girl: The State of the World’s Girls 2011 - So, what about boys? The report is the fifth in a series of annual reports published by Plan International that examines the rights of girls throughout their childhood, adolescence and as young women. Speakers will take us through the lifecycle from boyhood to fatherhood and examine how to integrate boys and men in gender equality interventions. Discussants will then reflect on Bank operations, especially the ones focusing on men and boys and on how to take this agenda forward in the context of operationalizing the 2012 World Development Report on Gender and Development .February 9, 2012,
12:30 - 2:30 p.m.
World Bank Group
1818 H Street NW, MC C2-131
Washington, DC
Discussants
Fabian Koss, Youth Liaison, Office of External Relations, Inter-American Development Bank
Susan Opper, Senior Education Specialist, South Asia Region, World Bank
Chair
Jeni Klugman, Sector Director, PRMGE, World Bank
Light lunch will be served (First come, first served)
Please RSVP before February 8 with Mame Niasse (mniasse@worldbank.org)