Gender and Development Seminar Series: Working with Boys to Achieve Gender Equality Across Generations

From: Ariana Childs Graham, Coalition for Adolescent Girls [mailto:ariana@cgpartners.org]
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 4:11 PM
To: Joyce Warner
Subject: Gender and Development Seminar Series: Working with Boys to Achieve Gender Equality Across Generations

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Dear Joyce,

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.

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Ariana Childs Graham
Coordinator, Coalition for Adolescent Girls

Gender and Development Seminar Series: Working with Boys to Achieve Gender Equality Across Generations

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)

The Coalition for Adolescent Girls was initiated in 2005 by the United Nations Foundation and the Nike Foundation, and has been joined by more than 30 leading international organizations, to bring fresh perspectives, diverse resources and concrete solutions to the challenges facing adolescent girls in the Global South. When girls are educated, healthy, and financially literate, they will play a key role in ending generations of poverty. The Coalition's supporters are committed to creating lasting change for communities in the Global South by driving investments to adolescent girls, leveraging existing initiatives, and mobilizing new allies on behalf of adolescent girls.

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