Women's Economic Empowerment Public Seminar 9 May 2012

The 2012 edition of SDC’s e+i network annual series of seminars on employment and income focused on “women’s economic empowerment (WEE)”: Experiences and challenges SDC’s employment and income work faces (with a particular focus on the approach Making markets work for the poor/M4P). The public seminar took place in Bern, Switzerland on 9^th May 2012.

Programme, Synthesis Paper, Presentations and Background Reading:

Seminar Synthesis (to be uploaded soon)
Programme
Presentations
Background Reading

Video messages:
(to be uploaded soon)

Please watch the videos below to get a quick overview of key messages from speakers.

Tiffany Urrechaga presented the DfiD-funded PrOpCom project intervention aiming at increasing profits of women parboilers in the rice sector in Nigeria. In the video, she summarizes to what extent these women were empowered and how the project measures this.

Joni Simpson from ILO shares her lessons regarding the most essential aspects of a favourable policy environment for women entrepreneurship development.

Archana Nath presented good practices on Gender Mainstreaming from the Samriddhi project in Bangladesh. In the video, she briefly explains one of the important tools used to promote WEE: the Participatory Gender Analysis.

Sophia Svanadze summarizes how SDC's cooperation office in the South Caucasus encourages and supports gender analysis in the M4P projects.

Orlando Mejia from the PyMeRural project in Honduras gives an insight into the achievements of the project in terms of WEE in different value chains.

Linda Jones, the author of the discussion paper that served as input to the seminar, reports on the insights she took away from the event and gives recommendations on SDC's future work in the area of WEE.

Peter Tschumi, focal point e+i network, and Annemarie Sancar, focal point gender equality network, share their lessons learned from the exchange at the public seminar.

 

Background reading:

M4P Women's Economic Empowerment Framework January 2012 Author: Dr. Linda Jones Discussion paper on how the Making Markets Work for the Poor Framework can work for poor women and poor men. Conceptual paper for a multi-stage process.
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Synthesis of the e-discussion on Women's Economic Empowerment in M4P Projects April 2012 Synthesis paper on the first e-discussion of SDC's e+i Network in 2012 (19 March - 10 April 2012). The discussion was organised in collaboration with the M4P Hub. The insights of this e-discussion will be presented at SDC's public seminar on WEE on May 9, 2012 and will contribute to respective guidelines on M4P and WEE to be elaborated by the M4P Hub.

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