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Special COVID-19 Webinars (2020)
This series of research-to-practice Webinars on the gender dimensions of COVID19 is organized by the Women’s Empowerment in Development (WED) Lab at McGill in partnership with the Institute for the Study of International Development and made possible thanks to funding from the Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW 2) program, a multi-funder initiative by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Canada’s International Development Research Centre.
| Date | Title | Speakers | Other Materials |
| Aug 18, 2020 | Examining policy solutions to address the impact of COVID-19 on women in the Global South | Vera Songwe (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa) Carolina Trivelli (Former Minister of Development and Social Inclusion - Peru) Caren Grown (World Bank) Reneta Lambreva (Global Affairs Canada) | N/A |
| Aug 4, 2020 | Using a gender lens to address COVID-19 response in Refugee Settings | Rachel Kiddell-Monroe (ISID and MSF) Jane Linekar (Mixed Migration Centre) Celina de Sola (Glasswing) Stephanie McBride (WUSC) | |
| Jul 23, 2020 | How can we adopt a gender lens to social protection programs in the face of the COVID-19 crisis? | Dr. Syed Hashemi (Independent Researcher) Dr. Francesca Bastagli (ODI) Dr. Munshi Sulaiman (BRAC) Tatiana Rincon (Fundacion Capital) | |
| Jul 14, 2020 | Effects of COVID-19 on Girls' Education in the Global South | Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi (World Bank Group) Dr. Sonalde Desai (University of Maryland) Megan O'Donnell (CGD) Tracey Evans (AKFC) | |
| Jul 2, 2020 | COVID-19 and Gender Based Violence in the Global South | Professor Kathryn Yount (Emory University) Wilson Hernandez (GRADE) Dr. Chi Chi Undie (SVRI) | |
| Jun 23, 2020 | COVID-19: Household Structures, Fertility, and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Global South | Professor Sarah Brauner-Otto (McGill University) Dr. Agnes Quisumbing (IFPRI) Caroline Kwamboka (EPF) | |
| Jun 11, 2020 | COVID-19 and the Care Economy in the Global South | Dr. Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo (APHRC) Jessica Hum - Antonopoulos (OXFAM) Sabrina Habib Margaret Kakande (Ministry of Finance, Uganda) | |
| May 28, 2020 | Gender Matters: COVID-19 and the labour market in the Global South | Professor Ashwini Deshpande (Ashoka University) Dr. Mary Njeri Kinyanjui (University of Nairobi) Dr. Laura Alfers (WIEGO) Dr. Lorena Alcazar (GRADE) |
Women’s empowerment in development research-to-practice training seminars (2019)
Thanks to funding from Canada's International Development Research Centre and funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, WEDLab hosted a series of seven research-to-practice training seminars in 2019 for students, scholars, practitioners and policymakers on state of the art research in core areas of women’s empowerment in development.
| Date | Title | Speakers | Other Materials |
| Dec 10, 2019 | Women’s Empowerment and Entrepreneurship in the Transition to Low-Carbon Economies | Bipasha Baruah (University of Western Ontario) (Facilitator) Joanne Lebert (IMPACT) Patience Singo (IMPACT) Françoise Nduwimana (Global Affairs Canada) Laurent Jodoin (Econoler) | |
| Oct 24, 2019 | Using Quantitative Methodologies to Study Women's Empowerment | Franque Grimard (McGill University) (Facilitator) Bouba Housseini (International Development Research Centre) Carl Asuncion (MEDA) | |
| Sep 24, 2019 | Social Norms and Women's Empowerment | Kathleen Fallon (Stony Brook University) (Facilitator) Martha Melesse (International Development Research Centre) Doris Buss (Carleton University) Diana Sarosi (Oxfam Canada) | |
| Sep 9, 2019 | Using Qualitative Feminist Methodologies to Study Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality | Rebecca Tiessen (University of Ottawa) (Facilitator) Jana Garay (Cuso International) Sheila Rao (University of Ottawa, Postdoc) Jessica Cadesky (University of Ottawa, Doctoral Candidate) Pascale Saint Denis (University of Ottawa, Undergraduate) Rika Mpogazi (University of Ottawa, Undergraduate) | |
| Jun 14, 2019 | Conditional Cash Transfers and Women’s Economic Empowerment | Sonia Laszlo (McGill University) (Facilitator) Stephanie McBride (World University Service of Canada) Franque Grimard (McGill University) | |
| May 23, 2019 | Feminist and Gender-Transformative Financial Inclusion | Kate Grantham (McGill University) (Facilitator) Martha Melesse (International Development Research Centre) Anne-Marie Lévesque (FinDev Canada) Edward Jackson (E.T. Jackson and Associates Ltd.) | |
| Mar 31, 2019 | Women's Economic Empowerment: What We Measure And Why It Matters | Sonia Laszlo (McGill University) (Facilitator) Arjan de Haan (International Development Research Centre) Francois-Philippe Dubé (Global Affairs Canada) Lindsay Mossman (Aga Khan Foundation Canada). |