Event
Making Economic Stimulus Packages Work for Women
Event Type: Lecture, Seminar or Panel Discussion
Date: 24.06.09
Time: 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Location: United Nations, New York – UN Conference Room B
Details
Making Economic Stimulus Packages Work for Women is part of a series of events UNIFEM co-sponsored during the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development on 24–26 June 2009.
The panel discussion explored whether economic stimulus packages allocate resources for women’s issues and move beyond one-time subsidies to gender-equitable job creation, social services provisioning and social protection within a rights-based framework.
Welcome Remarks
Inés Alberdi, Executive Director, UNIFEM
Opening Remarks
Noeleen Heyzer, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary, UNESCAP
Panellists
- Carolina S. Guina, Development Cooperation Specialist (Rapid Assessment of Economic Stimulus Packages in the Asia-Pacific Region)
- Marina Durano, Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (Economic Stimulus Packages from a Global Women’s Rights Perspective)
- Bijaya Rai Shrestha, Programme Coordinator, Pourakhi, Nepal (Upholding Rights and Opportunities for Women Migrant Workers in Nepal’s Economic Stimulus Package)
Sponsored by: UNESCAP, UNIFEM
