{"id":5713,"date":"2015-07-02T16:53:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T16:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=5713"},"modified":"2015-08-28T15:12:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T15:12:14","slug":"awdfs-ceo-theo-sowa-at-fhi-360-gender-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/awdfs-ceo-theo-sowa-at-fhi-360-gender-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"AWDF\u2019s CEO Theo Sowa At FHI 360 Gender Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<span lang=\"en\">The African Women\u2019s Development Fund Chief Executive Officer Theo Sowa attended \u00a0a gender summit convened by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhi360.org\/news\/gender-360-summit-2015-target-gender-equality\">FHI 360 <\/a>\u00a0in Washington, DC, on June 11th 2015. This was the second annual summit hosted by the nonprofit human development organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The event brought together gender and development experts and researchers, donors and national and international policymakers to participate in discussions around gender equality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">This year\u2019s focus was on achieving \u00a0gender equality through \u201charmonizing female empowerment and male engagement strategies, exploring the evidence base both for successful practices and lessons learned, and examining the role of donors in advancing gender integration.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">She was a participant in a panel discussion on the topic \u2018What role do donors play in advancing the gender equality agenda?\u2019 alongside other notable experts in the field of gender and development:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ritu Sharma, Sharma Solutions and author of <i>Teach a Woman to Fish<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Susan Markham, U.S. Agency for International Development<\/li>\n<li>Sally Gear, U.K. Department for International Development<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Morrison, Inter-American Development Bank<\/li>\n<li>Joan Libby-Hawk, United Nations Women &amp; United Nations Global Compact:<\/li>\n<li>Emily Esplen, Development Assistance Committee, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">View the discussion below (video 7\/7):<\/span>\n\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V3oTdVIdNJg&#038;index=8&#038;list=PLvjdLDUSAyf6BXcG-Dj_UCD93oWOyFuzM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V3oTdVIdNJg&#038;index=8&#038;list=PLvjdLDUSAyf6BXcG-Dj_UCD93oWOyFuzM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,10,1],"tags":[1049,1052,1048,479,1051,910,1050],"class_list":["post-5713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-press","category-uncategorized","tag-1049","tag-equality","tag-fhi","tag-gender-2","tag-sowa","tag-summit","tag-theo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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