Thailand National-Level Workshop Announcement

Learn, share and network at this workshop for economic and gender-based violence staff from governments, donor agencies, and NGOs in Thailand to acquire knowledge and hands-on skills necessary to implement and evaluate economic and household energy programs that will reduce displaced women’s vulnerability to gender-based violence. The workshop is limited to 25 participants.

Building on the Women’s Refugee Commission’s Regional Livelihoods Workshop on August 11-13, 2009 and on a series global workshops on safe access to firewood and alternative energy in humanitarian settings (SAFE), the Women’s Refugee Commission with support from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration is conducting a participatory four-day national-level workshop on operationalizing protection into livelihood and household energy programs for refugees in urban, in-camp, and other settings in Thailand.

A lack of safe access to household energy and insufficient livelihoods options are key sources of vulnerability to gender-based violence, particularly among displaced and conflict-affected populations. As such, this workshop will engage participants in developing market-oriented, context-specific approaches and protection strategies for designing safe and self-reliant livelihood and household interventions.

Participants will become familiar with best practices identified and developed from the Women’s Refugee Commission’s long-standing research projects on livelihoods and household energy programming in refugee, IDP, and returnee settings. In order to facilitate participants’ operationalization of safe livelihoods and household energy programs as a tool for reducing vulnerability to gender-based violence, the workshop will include practice sessions, adapt participant project work plans, and develop a joint action plan to support collaboration and coordination between participants. Participants will have continued access to the Women’s Refugee Commission’s technical staff for technical support through 2011.

WORKSHOP FEE: There is No fee for this workshop. Participants will be required to cover their own travel expenses, including board.

Apply here before December 16, 2009.

For Questions, please contact Dena Batrice, denab@wrcommission.org.

The Women’s Refugee Commission is holding a three-day highly participatory workshop designed to bring practitioners from throughout the region to learn new techniques, share experiences, and collect tools designed to improve practice on the ground. Two days of the workshop will focus on findings from the Women’s Refugee Commission’s three-year research project on livelihoods in refugee, IDP, and returnee settings and will include practice sessions on usage of the newly released Livelihoods Field Manual. A third day of the workshop will cover findings on the Commission’s project on livelihoods as a tool of protection against gender-based violence and how GBV and livelihood programs should complement each other to better protect women.

Apply for this event by July 10, 2009

Participants will be required to cover their own travel expenses. Meals and materials will be provided. There will be a very limited amount of financial assistance available to local NGOs only for partial coverage of travel and hotel expenses.

To request an application or for any questions, please contact Gillian at: gillianda@wrcommission.org

AED’s Global Learning Group cordially invites you to a panel discussion about Adolescent Girls and the Workforce

Wednesday, June 24th from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
In AED’s Academy Hall
1825 Connecticut Ave, NW, 8th Floor
Washington, DC 20009

Distinguished Speakers will be

• Dr. Andrew Morrison, Senior Economist and Gender Specialist at the World Bank;
• Allyn Moushey, Poverty Analysis & Social Safety Nets Advisor at USAID Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade; and
• Dr. Conrad Person, Director of International Programs and Product Giving from Johnson & Johnson.

The panel will be moderated by May Rihani, Senior Vice President and Director of the Global Learning Group, AED. A light breakfast will be served.

Please RSVP to Greta Stults, Executive Assistant at the Center for Gender Equity at:
gstults@aed.org or (202) 884-8517

Application deadline for West Africa workshop: 20 April

The Women’s Refugee Commission will be conducting three livelihood workshops this year in West Africa, East Africa and Asia. The workshops focus on the needs of displaced women and youth, and will include a session that addresses implications for child protection.

The first one will be a three-day, highly participatory regional livelihoods workshop in Accra, Ghana from May 12-14, 2009 designed to bring practitioners from throughout the region to learn new techniques, share experiences, and collect tools designed to improve economic programming practice on the ground. Two days of the workshop will focus on findings from the Women’s Refugee Commission’s three-year research project on livelihoods in refugee, IDP, and returnee settings and will include practice sessions on usage of the newly released Livelihoods Field Manual. The third day of the workshop will cover findings on the Commission’s project on livelihoods as a tool of protection against gender-based violence and how GBV and livelihood programs should complement each other to better protect women.

Participants will be required to cover their own travel expenses. Meals and materials will be provided. Participants attending from local NGOs can apply for financial assistance for partial coverage of travel and hotel expenses.

To request an application or for any questions, please contact Sonali at livelihoodsworkshop@wrcommission.org

Unite For Sight’s conference convenes a committed vanguard of thousands from more than 60 countries. The conference challenges students, professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative solutions to achieve global goals.

The conference will feature 200 Speakers, including Keynote Addresses by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Susan Blumenthal, and Dr. Harold Varmus. Social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Save The Children, Partners in Health, HealthStore Foundation, mothers2mothers, among others, are planned. In addition, “Young Leaders of Social Change” Speakers are featured on the agenda.