The World Bank together with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) will discuss the WDR2012 that presents new and revealing data on the status of gender equality around the world, which not only is essential for achieving development results in general, but also has major implications on programmes of development agencies.

PROGRAMME

09:15 Coffee available

09:30 Welcome
Selina Jackson, Special Representative to the UN and WTO, World Bank

Introduction
Chantal Nicod, Deputy Head of the Global Institutions Division, The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

Moderator
Elisabeth Prügl, Director, Programme on Gender and Global Change, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

WDR 2012 Gender Equality and Development Presentation Sudhir Shetty, WDR 2012 Co-Director & Ana Maria Muñoz-Boudet, Gender Specialist, WDR 2012, The World Bank

Q&A from the Audience

10:30 Panel Discussion
Patricia Francis, Executive Director, International Trade Center (ITC)

Augusto Lopez Claros, Director, Global Indicators and Analysis, World Bank Group

Lakshmi Puri, ASG and Deputy Executive Director, UN Women

Shahra Razavi, Research Coordinator, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

Saadia Zahidi, Director, Constituents, World Economic Forum (WEF) (TBC)

11:30 Q&A from the Audience

12:30 Reception
First Floor Bar Area
 

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