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Innovation for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality

Innovation for Women ’s Empowerment and Gender Equality - PDF

Cutting-edge ideas can be game changers for women.

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Bridging the Gender Divide: How Technology Can Advance Women Economically,


Intention and innovation can generate real economic benefits to women in the developing world

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Women Tools Technology: Building Opportunities & Economic Power Competition


 

What Men Have to Do With It Public Policies to Promote Gender Equality


New ICRW Report Analyzes how National Policies can Engage Men in Achieving Gender Equality



Empowering Women Where Insight and Action Connect

5-minute introductory video about ICRW

WATCH: 5-minute introductory video about ICRW.



Join ICRW’s Video Campaign Against Child Marriage

Watch The Bride Price: Consequences of Child Marriage Worldwide

WATCH: The Bride Price: Consequences of Child Marriage Worldwide

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ICRW Recives a 4-Star Rating from Charity Navigator

ICRW has earned a second consecutive 4-star rating from Charity Navigator. According to Charity Navigator, only 20% of the charities it rates have received at least two consecutive 4-star evaluations, indicating that ICRW consistently executes its mission in a fiscally responsible way, and outperforms most other charities in the United States.

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Expert Panel Addresses the Power of Innovation in Women’s Lives


As part of its annual celebration of International Women’s Day, ICRW on March 8 convened a panel of experts to discuss how social and technological innovations can empower women and achieve gender equality.


The basis of the discussion was an ICRW study, Innovation for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality, that demonstrates how cutting-edge ideas – everything from a foot-pedaled water pump to birth control pills – can be game-changers for women’s lives.

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The Power to Empower: Leveraging Innovation to Transform Women’s Lives:
A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and ICRW event at the 54th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Women Tools Technology: Building Opportunities & Economic Power Competition: An innovative, global competition that aims to identify transformative solutions for promoting women’s economic advancement.

ICRW Celebrates International Women's Day - Slide Show slide show

ICRW marked International Women’s Day with a panel discussion on how social and technological innovation can empower women and help achieve gender equality, followed by the Champions for Change Cocktail Reception that honored MTV Networks International’s Bill Roedy.


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ICRW Launches Cricket Campaign to Help End Domestic Violence

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ICRW and CARE India Share Results from HIV Prevention Project with Sex Workers

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Indian President Releases ICRW and Partner Evaluation of Anti-Domestic Violence Law

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ICRW Events

Expanding Stigma-Reduction Strategies to Strengthen HIV Programs: The Case of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission

ICRW’s Laura Nyblade and Cathy Zimmerman of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine will present new findings that estimate the potential impact of stigma on prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programs. Findings suggest one-third to one-half of mother-to-child transmission may be attributed to stigma.  The presenters also will discuss the facilitators and barriers to expanding the response to stigma.

When: March 31, 2010
12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Where: ICRW, 1120 20th Street N.W., Suite 500 North
Washington, D.C. 20036

RSVP to Traci Eckhaus at teckhaus@icrw.org or call 202.742.1259

 

 

 


 

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