Fifty-Sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (27 February - 9 March 2012)
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/56sess.htm
Roundtable discussion and official launch of the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEIA).
Speakers: Ambassador Melanne Verveer, Administrator Rajiv Shah; Dr. Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty & Human Dev Initiative; Dr. Agnes Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow, Health & Nutrition, IFPRI; Dr. ShirinSharminChaudhury, Minister of Women & Children, Bangladesh; Efrain Medina, Minister of Agriculture, Guatemala; Ms. Ann Tutwiler, Deputy Director General, FAO
Launch of Feed the Future WEIA, an innovative tool to measure women’s roles and engagement in the agriculture sector. Event will focus on surveys done in three pilot countries – Bangladesh, Guatemala, and Uganda.
This side event is organized by USAID
