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Breaking Gender Barriers

Important Dates

Conference
November 18 - 21, 2019

The conference will showcase USAID’s investments, new programming approaches, effective practices and opportunities to learn from project designs, interventions, and results. This conference will also provide guidance on Administration and Agency priorities in programming in the gender sector. This gathering will bring together USAID leadership, gender advisors, and other technical staff from around the world in celebration of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment.

Themes

  • Gender equality and women’s empowerment in the Journey to Self-Reliance

  • Preventing and responding to gender-based violence 

  • Overcoming gender barriers to economic empowerment

  • Gender in crisis and conflict situations

  • Expanding partnerships for gender programming

  • Managing gender integration in the USAID Program Cycle

 

Breaking Gender Barriers Conference Program

Monday, November 18

8:00 AM Registration Opens
9:00 - 10:00 AM Opening Celebration
10:00 - 10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Bringing a Gender Lens to the Journey to Self-Reliance
12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 - 1:30 PM Partnering for Success - Plenary with USAID Chief of Staff Bill Steiger
1:30 - 1:45 PM Break
1:45 - 2:45 PM

Concurrent Sessions

  • Doing Well and Doing Good: Private Sector Engagement in Development
  • Partnering with Governments for More Effective Programming
  • Partnering with Faith-Based, Transformative, and Local Partners
  • USAID's Bilateral Partnerships
  • Partnering with Foundations
2:45 - 4:00 PM Travel to Omni Shoreham Hotel
4:00 - 7:00 PM Fireside Chat & Reception: VVIP and Administrator Green at the Omni Shoreham Hotel      

Tuesday, November 19

9:00 - 10:00 AM W-GDP: Interagency Perspectives on Implementation and Success
10:00 - 11:00 AM Break and Livestream of Agency Townhall
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Concurrent Sessions

  • Enabling Environment for Women's Economic Empowerment: The Role of
    Policy & Regulatory Frameworks
  • Women's Economic Empowerment. Nations can Change Harmful Social and Cultural Barriers
    If They Truly Believe in Women's and Girls' Economic Empowerment
  • Close the Gender Gaps: Examining Barriers and Solutions to Becoming Successful
    Female Entrepreneurs
  • Getting Through the Door and Moving up the Ladder: Evidence and Experiences
    in Fostering Women's Labor Force Participation
  • Women's Access to Finance: Understanding and Fixing the System
  • Women's Economic Empowerment: Does it Apply Across Sectors?
12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch and Table Top Discussions
1:30 - 2:45 PM Gender in Crisis and Conflict: Strategy, Evidence, and Approaches
2:45 - 3:15 PM Break
3:15 - 4:30 PM

Concurrent Sessions

  • Women's Participation in Peace Processes
  • Amplifying the Voices of Women and Girls, Particularly Adolescents,
    in Crisis Settings
  • Sexual Violence in Conflict: Working to End Impunity
  • From Policy to Action: A Closer Look at Women's Roles in Countering
    Violent Extremism and Conflict
  • Understanding and Breaking Barriers to Women's Political Participation

 

Wednesday, November 20

9:00 - 10:30 AM Ground Our Work in GBV
10:30 - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Concurrent Sessions

  • GBV and the First 1,000 Days
  • Safe at Home: Tackling Gender-Based Violence in Childhood
  • A Safer Journey to Adulthood: Preventing and Responding to Gender-Based
    Violence in Adolescence
  • Invisible but Not Absent: Gender-Based Violence throughout Adulthood
  • Men, Masculinities, and GBV
12:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch - Fireside Chat with Deputy Administrator Bonnie Glick & Administrator's Action Alliance to Prevent Sexual Misconduct                               
2:00 - 2:15 PM Transition Time
2:15 - 3:45 PM

Concurrent Sessions

  • Justice Services for GBV: Program Models and Best Practices in Access
    to Justice
  • Accountability to GBV Survivors: Changing the System to Keep Women and
    Girls at the Center of our Work
  • Examining the Relationship Between Women's Economic Empowerment and GBV
  • Drivers and Impacts of Gender-Based Violence in Environmental Sectors
  • Leveraging Partnershps to End GBV
  • GBV MEL Methodologoies
3:45 - 4:15 PM Break
4:15 - 5:00 PM Mindfulness: Grounding and Gratitude
5:00 - 6:30 PM USAID Networking and FSN Recognition Day Celebration

 

Thursday, November 21

9:00 - 10:00 AM Revisiting our Guiding Frameworks: an Overview of Updates to the Gender Integration Landscape at USAID
10:00 - 10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Policy Marketplace
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Honing Our Skills, Part 1: Programming with Gender Evidence
12:30 - 1:30 PM Inspirational Moment and Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 PM Honing Our Skills, Part 2: Resources and Support for the Gender Architecture                   
3:00 - 3:30 PM Break
3:30 - 4:00 PM Mindfulness and Self Knowledge
4:00 - 4:45 PM Reflections on Gender Integration

 

Contact

For any questions or additional information, please contact the USAID Gender Conference team: [email protected].