CSW62 side event: Transformative financing for gender equality and the empowerment of rural women
Join an exciting group of leading voices on gender budgeting to explore innovative strategies to increase investment in rural women and girls.
Date: 12 March 2018, 6.30–7.45 p.m. EDT
Location: UN Conference Building, Conference Room 11, New York, NY 10017. Enter through the Visitors’ Entrance at 1st Avenue and 46th Street.
RSVP: Katherine Gifford
At both national and subnational levels, fiscal policy can be shaped to achieve gender equality outcomes. Well-designed gender budgets can support increased investment in infrastructure, essential services, education, training and skills development for rural women and girls.
The high-level panel will share good practices in local-level planning and budgeting to support increased investment in rural women and girls. It will mobilize political support for implementation of existing commitments on financing gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls vis-à-vis the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Panellists:
- H.E. Ms. Mila Carovska, Minister for Labour and Social Policy, Republic of Macedonia
- H.E. Mr. Masud Bin Momen, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to the United Nations
- Ms. Flor de Lis Vásquez, Head of International Affairs, National Women’s Institute, Mexico
- Ms. Esther Mwaura-Muiru, Founder, GROOTS Kenya
- Ms. Lisa Kolovich, Economist, International Monetary Fund
Moderator: Ms. Zohra Khan, Chief (OiC), Leadership and Governance, UN Women
