How Women’s Leadership and Collective Action Can Make a Difference
Gender equality and empowerment are at the heart of solutions to the crises of poverty and economic distress, climate change, and rising fragility and conflict. By addressing gender-based discrimination, adverse social norms, and stagnant, siloed mindsets, women and girls are more fully able to contribute their full potential to solutions. The World Bank Group is in the process of updating its Gender Strategy, and is reflecting on lessons learned as well as what it will take to accelerate progress towards equality for women in communities and worldwide. Headlined by the Honorable Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nobel Laureate and former President of Liberia, this hour-long panel discussion will feature women leaders from across the globe and across generations to reflect on the importance of accelerating gender equality and empowerment; explore the power of collective action to accelerate change; and discuss how the private sector, philanthropic, and community leaders can play the role of changemakers and, together, accelerate equality. Submit your questions in advance here: http://wrld.bg/yJcY50N8ECr
💬 Simultaneous interpretation available in Arabic http://wrld.bg/EQze50NcI8l French http://wrld.bg/YfBR50NcyNI Spanish http://wrld.bg/q61350NcyPa
🗣️ Speakers
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Former President, Liberia
Axel van Trotsenburg, Managing Director of Operations, World Bank
Mamta Murthi, Vice President, Human Development, World Bank
Myrna Cunningham, Miskitu Feminist, Indigenous Rights Activist and Medical Surgeon, Nicaragua
Richa Gupta, CEO, Labhya Foundation, SDG Young Leader, UN and Board Member, UNICEF, India
Omnia El Omrani, COP27 President Youth Envoy and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Resident, Egypt
Moderator: Kimberly Gire, Founder and Chair of Global Women Leaders Strategic Philanthropy
📝 Agenda
00:00 Welcome
00:51 Opening remarks by Axel van Trotsenburg, Managing Director of Operations, World Bank
07:24 Remarks by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Former President, Liberia
23:28 Conversation between Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Mamta Murthi
38:27 Panel discussion: Visions from Nicaragua, India, and Egypt
1:00:00 Closure
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