Appendix
Agenda
Workshop on Family Planning, Women’s Empowerment, and Population and Societal Impacts
September 24–25, 2020
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
| 10:00–10:10 am EDT | |
| Welcome and goals for the workshop | |
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Malay Majmundar, Director, Committee on Population |
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Ann Blanc, Steering Committee Chair, Population Council |
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| 10:10–10:20 am EDT | |
| Background on the workshop | |
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Win Brown, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
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| 10:20–11:30 am EDT | |
| The role of fertility decline and women’s empowerment in economic development and in other population and societal changes | |
| Moderator: Amy Tsui, Johns Hopkins University (emerita) | |
| This session will focus on questions such as: | |
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Jocelyn Finlay, Harvard University |
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Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics |
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Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern University |
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| 11:30–11:45 am EDT | |
| Break | |
| 11:45 am–1:15 pm EDT | |
| Measuring women’s empowerment | |
| Moderator: Mayra Buvinic, United Nations Foundation | |
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Ushma Upadhyay, University of California, San Francisco |
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Sonalde Desai, University of Maryland |
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Kathryn Yount, Emory University |
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Aletheia Donald, Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank |
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| 1:15–2:10 pm EDT | |
| Break | |
| 2:10–3:20 pm EDT | |
| Ways of addressing current data limitations | |
| Moderator: Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development | |
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Philip Anglewicz, Johns Hopkins University |
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Anita Raj, University of California, San Diego |
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Sunita Kishor, ICF |
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| 3:20–3:30 pm EDT | |
| Wrap-up day 1 and plans for day 2 | |
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Ann Blanc, Steering Committee Chair, Population Council |
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
| 10:00–11:20 am EDT | |
| Family planning, fertility, and women’s empowerment in low- and middle-income countries | |
| Moderator: Alex Ezeh, Drexel University | |
| This session will focus on the extent to which the nexus between family planning, fertility, and women’s empowerment varies within and across low- and middle-income countries. | |
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Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Rutgers University |
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Yohannes Wado, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya |
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Zeba Sathar, Population Council, Islamabad, Pakistan |
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Ndola Prata, University of California, Berkeley |
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| 11:20–11:30 am EDT | |
| Break | |
| 11:30 am–12:30 pm EDT | |
| Mechanisms of attitude change | |
| Moderator: Jocelyn Finlay, Harvard University | |
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Sajeda Amin, Population Council |
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Sarah Baird, George Washington University |
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Rajiv Rimal, Johns Hopkins University |
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| 12:30–1:00 pm EDT | |
| Break | |
| 1:00–2:10 pm EDT | |
| Foundation and agency programs and priorities | |
| Moderator: Sunita Kishor, ICF | |
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Althea Anderson, Hewlett Foundation |
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Benoit Kalasa, United Nations Population Fund |
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Tamara Kreinin, Packard Foundation |
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Afeefa Abdur-Rahman, Office of Population and Reproductive Health, USAID (Contractor) |
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Ann Starrs, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
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| 2:10–3:30 pm EDT | |
| Summary of key themes and next steps to move the field forward | |
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Amy Tsui, Johns Hopkins University (emerita) |
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Sunita Kishor, ICF |
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Jocelyn Finlay, Harvard University |
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Alex Ezeh, Drexel University |
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Mayra Buvinic, United Nations Foundation |
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Nancy Birdsall, Center for Global Development |
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Ann Blanc, Steering Committee Chair, Population Council |
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| 3:30 pm EDT | |
| Adjourn | |
