by Gendro | Sep 1, 2020 | Events
The dialogue featured speakers such as Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Dr. Shirin Heidari, Dr. Roopa Dhatt, Ms. Sarah Hillware, Dr. Amina Jama, Mr. Ricardo Baruch, Dr. Nicole Fouda Mbarga, and Dr. Denise Nacif Pimenta. It was organized by GENDRO and Women in Global Health, marking the inaugural event in a series of CSO-WHO DG dialogues chosen by CSOs for various topics pertinent to the COVID-19 response. The selection process for themes involved a call for proposals managed by a small group of volunteer CSO representatives. They assessed proposals based on criteria such as the issue’s relevance to civil society, urgency within the COVID-19 context, feasibility of meeting with the WHO DG, clarity of proposal, and persuasiveness of its outline and format. Subsequently, the CSO volunteers proposed three initial topics to kickstart the series: achieving a gender-transformative COVID response, promoting the health and wellbeing of young people during the pandemic through youth engagement in participatory governance, and exploring the role of social participation in the COVID-19 context.
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by Gendro | Aug 20, 2020 | Events
August 20, 2020 |Organiser: Gender Summit
The primary goal of GS19 was to bring together key player organisations that are actively advancing knowledge and practice for effective implementation of SDG targets, and identify topics where gender is not given the priority it should. Example organisations that are being targeted include: research performing members of the UN Sustainable Solutions Network (SDSN); members of the International Science Council (ISC); multilateral institutions such as OECD and UNESCO; funders of research for development such as the International Development Research Centre in Canada; and capacity building programmes such as the collaborative GREAT (Gender-responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation) project involving Cornell (USA) and Makerere (Uganda) universities.
The target participants are acknowledged technical and gender experts and practitioners from across the different global regional familiar with SDG-related themes as well as with gender knowledge and experience relevant to different SDG targets.
Developing and Applying Methods of Sex/Gender Analysis in Research for SDGs: This session presents latest advances in research methods to understand when, why and how biological (sex) and socio-cultural (gender) characteristics of studied populations, and in their ecological contexts, impact on research results and differentiate quality of research outcomes for women/females and men/males.
Event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8e4Ygr5avY&ab_channel=GenderSummit
by Gendro | Jul 24, 2020 | Media
24 July 2020
This insightful article in National Geographic sheds light on “Women on the Frontlines in the Fight Against COVID-19,” and delves into the gender dimensions of the pandemic and its implications for women and girls. Dr. Shirin Heidari, the founding president of GENDRO, emphasizes the crucial role of data and evidence in supporting gender equality, and how addressing these issues is essential for a more inclusive and equitable response to the pandemic.
Read more here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/women-on-frontlines-fight-against-covid-19
by Gendro | Jun 29, 2020 | Events
The meeting focused on ethical and gender considerations in remote data collection within research conducted in humanitarian and refugee settings. It was convened by the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
Event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQZM_WNB26g&ab_channel=GenevaGraduateInstitute , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY1VRwRzDto&ab_channel=GenevaGraduateInstitute
by Gendro | Jun 15, 2020 | Events
June 15, 2020 |Organisers: GENDRO and CERAH Geneve
In her new book ‘The Uncounted’ Sara L.M. Davis looks at how politics shapes data in the context of another ongoing pandemic: HIV and AIDS and how the same politics are shaping data in the current COVID19 crisis. “Health data is never neutral,” says Davis. “Politics shapes how data is used, what gets counted and what – or who– is left uncounted”.
Global aid agencies and governments use health data to set priorities, focusing resources in a shrinking list of countries. At the same time, many governments deny marginalized groups exist, so their data is never collected. Since no data is gathered about their needs, life-saving services are not funded, and the lack of data reinforces the denial.
As a result of this and other data paradoxes, the book shows that in the global race to reach the end of AIDS, the world is slipping off track. The Uncounted explores this through interviews with leaders of global health agencies and civil society activists, ethnographic research, analysis of gaps in policies and mathematical models, and the author’s experience as an activist and official. It shows why empowering communities to gather their own data could be key to ending inequalities in healthcare.
Book Reviews
Davis vividly shows that not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. As an anthropologist, a human rights activist and a former Global Fund official, Davis is an insider and an outsider, drawing a rich, nuanced and compelling portrait of the HIV response today. Joseph Amon, Ph.D., MSPH – Clinical Professor and Director of the Office of Global Health, Drexel University
In The Uncounted, Davis has successfully synthesized the complex decisions guiding bilateral and multilateral funding agencies in the HIV response. Given her own experience and that the book is informed by systematic reviews and key informant interviews, it is accurate while managing to provide a humanized narrative to international development. Stefan Baral, MD – Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMW5deLM3RI&ab_channel=GenevaGraduateInstitute
