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ISID's 2018 annual conference on was held on听March 15-16. The conference听aimed听to 鈥渦npack鈥� the agenda of women鈥檚 empowerment in global development, with an interdisciplinary group of experts who听discussed contemporary challenges and opportunities for research, policy and practice, as well as examined some of the recent evidence on empowerment initiatives in resource-poor settings. The conference focused on various challenges that confront scholars and policy makers seeking to construct policies and assess their impact on increasing women鈥檚 autonomy, voice, and/or well-being in the household, civil society, and national politics. Some of these challenges include the difficulties associated with how to听measure and benchmark progress toward achieving women鈥檚 empowerment in diverse development contexts, as well as concerns that the design and implementation of women鈥檚 empowerment policies obscure their politically contested nature. Other challenges have to do with how to incorporate evidence of social and political backlash in assessing the impact and success of various policies.听
You may download the PDF version of the听program听here:
2018 ISID Conference Program
The conference was recorded and uploaded to page. The recordings are now available!
As part of this听conference, a workshop was held on measurement of Women's Economic Empowerment with expert panelists from Fedesarrollo, the International Development Research Centre听(IDRC), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, and the World Bank. The report is available here:听 ISID 2018 Conference. Measurement Workshop
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