The degree to which men, women, boys, girls, and nonbinary persons have autonomy and agency to control their lives is greatly influenced and shaped by socio-cultural norms that dictate what is acceptable and not acceptable. Prevailing patriarchal power structures greatly inform these norms, which have by design created power imbalances between genders. These imbalances put women, girls, nonbinary and transgender persons at risk of gender-based violence (GBV) and have created systemic barriers that prevent such persons from fully participating in political, civic, and economic life. These constraints are felt across multiple levels of society including individual, household, community, organizational, and institutional.
Please join the Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) Global Consortium for a virtual panel discussion on March 30 from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET that will explore male engagement as a risk mitigation strategy for GBV and a facilitator of women’s economic empowerment (WEE). Our discussion will focus on WAGE learning agenda question 5: what are successful ways to design and implement women’s empowerment programs that apply the principles of a) do no harm/safeguarding; and b) diversity and inclusion? We will explore this topic from a systemic, community and household level by discussing the barriers to mitigating GBV and advancing WEE within overarching socio-cultural and structural frameworks that are discriminatory and oppressive. The panelists will also discuss male engagement approaches utilized by the WAGE Global Consortium in Eswatini, Ghana, and Sri Lanka by discussing what has worked and has not, and how WAGE successes could be scaled.
Our panel will feature Dr. Chloe Schwenke, President of the Center for Values in International Development, Purna Roy Chowdhury, Associate Director - Women’s Economic Empowerment and Gender in India, Grameen Foundation and Lead for WAGE Sri Lanka, Francis Arthur, Manager Grameen Foundation and Lead for WAGE Ghana, and Tom Churchyard, Founder and Executive Director of Kwakha Indvodza (KI). The panel will start with a presentation by Dr. Chloe Schwenke on the larger moral issue of values and ethical systems, systemic power imbalances, and male engagement as a GBV mitigation strategy, including within the context of WEE. Her presentation will be followed by presentations on the WAGE Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Eswatini initiatives and how they each approached male engagement to mitigate GBV as an unintended consequence of WEE and women’s empowerment broadly. A facilitated Q&A session will follow these presentations.
Please register here if you are interested in attending the virtual panel on March 30:
https://americanbar.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HZ95xOTESj2JtFwFiB2Opw
Please join the Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) Global Consortium for a virtual panel discussion on March 30 from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET that will explore male engagement as a risk mitigation strategy for GBV and a facilitator of women’s economic empowerment (WEE). Our discussion will focus on WAGE learning agenda question 5: what are successful ways to design and implement women’s empowerment programs that apply the principles of a) do no harm/safeguarding; and b) diversity and inclusion? We will explore this topic from a systemic, community and household level by discussing the barriers to mitigating GBV and advancing WEE within overarching socio-cultural and structural frameworks that are discriminatory and oppressive. The panelists will also discuss male engagement approaches utilized by the WAGE Global Consortium in Eswatini, Ghana, and Sri Lanka by discussing what has worked and has not, and how WAGE successes could be scaled.
Our panel will feature Dr. Chloe Schwenke, President of the Center for Values in International Development, Purna Roy Chowdhury, Associate Director - Women’s Economic Empowerment and Gender in India, Grameen Foundation and Lead for WAGE Sri Lanka, Francis Arthur, Manager Grameen Foundation and Lead for WAGE Ghana, and Tom Churchyard, Founder and Executive Director of Kwakha Indvodza (KI). The panel will start with a presentation by Dr. Chloe Schwenke on the larger moral issue of values and ethical systems, systemic power imbalances, and male engagement as a GBV mitigation strategy, including within the context of WEE. Her presentation will be followed by presentations on the WAGE Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Eswatini initiatives and how they each approached male engagement to mitigate GBV as an unintended consequence of WEE and women’s empowerment broadly. A facilitated Q&A session will follow these presentations.
Please register here if you are interested in attending the virtual panel on March 30:
https://americanbar.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HZ95xOTESj2JtFwFiB2Opw
