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INVITE YOU TO A PANEL DISCUSSION
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| | developing countries a full and |
| For more information | equal chance for rewarding lives and |
| about the report and | livelihoods. |
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| please click here. | The authors have provided specific |
| Free copies will be | recommendations for civil society, |
| available at the | governments, private-sector leaders, |
| event. | and donor agencies to create |
| | mechanisms for the meaningful |
| | participation of young women and |
| | adolescent girls in their programs |
| | and policy, helping to foster youth |
| | leadership and gender-sensitive |
| | ideology. At the global level, while |
| | these priorities by no means |
| | constitute an exhaustive list, they |
| | should inform donor and technical |
| | agencies and private charities of |
| | where gains can be made. |
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| | Tuesday, May 27 |
| | 12:00 - 2:00pm |
| | World Bank J Building |
| | Auditorium J1-050 |
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| | For non Bank staff, please RSVP to |
| | infoshopevents@worldbank.org |
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CHAIRED BY
Mayra Buvinic
Sector Director, Gender and Development, PREM Network, World Bank
Between 1996 and 2004 Ms. Buvinic was Chief, Social Development
Division and Special Advisor on Violence Prevention at the
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Prior to working at the IDB,
Ms. Buvinic was a founding member and President of the International
Center for Research on Women (1978-2004). She is past President of
the Association for Women?s Rights in Development (AWID) and member
of a number of non-profit boards, including the International Water
Management Institute, Sri Lanka, and the International Institute of
Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria. A Chilean national, her published
works are in the areas of gender, poverty and development; health
and reproductive health; violence prevention; social inclusion and
social cohesion; and project and program evaluations.
PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Ruth Levine
Vice President for Programs and Operations, and Senior Fellow, Center for Global
Development
Ms. Levine is an internationally recognized expert on global health
and health policy. She is a health economist with more than 15 years
of experience designing and assessing the effects of social sector
programs in Latin America, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and
South Asia. As CGD vice president for programs and operations, she
is a member of the Center?s senior management team. She is also a
CGD senior fellow and leads the Center?s work on global health
policy, including chairing a series of working groups on key policy
and finance constraints to the effective use of donor funding for
health programs in low-income countries. Before joining the CGD,
Ruth designed, supervised, and evaluated loans at the World Bank and
the Inter-American Development Bank. Between 1997 and 1999, she
served as the advisor on the social sectors in the office of the
executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank.
DISCUSSED BY
Wendy Cunningham
Lead Specialist, Children and Youth Unit, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Cunningham is the Coordinator of the Children and Youth (C&Y)
Unit at the World Bank. She is responsible for supporting the
team's work on a core set of strategic issues affecting children and
youth in our client countries. Before joining the C&Y Unit, Ms.
Cunninghamn was a Senior Economist in the PREM and HD departments in
the Bank's Latin America and Caribbean Region where she lead
projects and research in the areas of social protection and labor
markets and worked to develop the region's agenda for youth
development and gender.
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