Director Carol Cohn at USIP Event: After War, Gender Equality Needs Investment Too

Date: 
Monday, March 13, 2017 - 10:00 to 11:30
Location: 
U.S. Institute of Peace 2301 Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC
Link: 
RSVP here
Description: 
 
Countries emerging from violent conflict face critical decisions from the outset. The way public resources are managed and public goods and services distributed becomes crucial to sustaining peace. In the influx of aid and technical support, the particular needs of women and girls often are overlooked. Join the U.S. Institute of Peace on Monday, March 13, for a discussion with experts about ways to ensure equality in reconstruction budgets and public finance institutions.
 
Financial management systems that oversee functions such as tax collection, budget tracking or building infrastructure often are established rapidly in countries recovering from violent conflict. But these structures often aren’t built with consideration for the specific needs of women and girls, such as women’s ability to own property when redrafting land reform or women’s mobility when addressing road construction. The result is a missed opportunity to address structural gender inequality from the start.
 
Panelists will discuss how to better integrate gender analysis into public finance, and opportunities for women’s participation in economic structures. Join the conversation on Twitter #USIPGender.
 
Speakers:
Carol Cohn

Director, Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, University of Massachusetts Boston


 
Thomas Scherer

Program Officer, Economics and Peacebuilding, U.S. Institute of Peace
 
Janet Stotsky 

Economist and Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund
 
Moderator: Carla Koppell

Vice President, Applied Conflict Transformation, U.S. Institute of Peace
 
 

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