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Launch of the CAF Strategy for Gender Equality 2022–2026

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CAF—development bank of Latin America—is pleased to invite all interested parties to the launch of the CAF Strategy for Gender Equality 2022–2026, which sets out the axes of institutional action to support shareholder countries in achieving gender equality and women empowerment. It will also be a space for reflection on the challenges of the region for equality from the women leadership perspective.

The gender perspective is essential to promoting sustainable development and regional integration, especially when it comes to understanding how opportunities, benefits and impacts of CAF’s interventions are distributed among people.

 

Date: Tuesday, March 8th, 2022

Time: 6:00 a.m. (Colombia) / 7:00 a.m. (Venezuela) / 8:00 a.m. (Paraguay)

This event will be broadcasted on this website

 

program

*Local time (of the country where you are located)
  • Part 1: Launch of the CAF Strategy for Gender Equality
  • Introductory remarks
    • Sergio Díaz-Granados Executive President, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-
    • Azucena Arbeleche Minister of Economy and Finance of Uruguay
    • Euclides Acevedo Minister of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay
    • Anita Bhatia Assistant secretary-general and UN Women’s deputy executive director
    • Celina Esther Lezcano Minister of Women of Paraguay
    • Sima Sami Bahous Executive Director UN Women
  • Presentation of the CAF Strategy for Gender Equality
    • Ana María Baiardi Manager for Gender, Inclusion and Diversity, CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-
  • Final thoughts
    • Christian Asinelli Corporate Vicepresident of Strategic Programming, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-
  • Break
  • Part 2: Conversation: Women's leadership in the face of challenges for equality in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Panel I: Challenges to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women in Latin America and the Caribbean.

    The main goal of this panel is to expose the challenges facing the region to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women, as well as the public policy recommendations necessary to be implemented.

    Moderator: Adriana Arreaza, Knowledge Manager, CAF

    • Luciana Fainstain Patiño Gender specialist of the Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Management, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America-
    • Edgar Lara Gender specialist of the Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Management, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America-
    • Veronica Serafini Coordinator and principal investigator, CADEP and Latindadd
    • Lucila Berniell Principal Economist, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-
  • Panel II: Women in Leadership: Persistent Challenges and New Opportunities

    The goal of this panel is to reflect on the challenges faced by women in the exercise of leadership and in participation in decision-making spaces, as well as the role they assume in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals.

    Moderator: Barbara Auricchio, Gender Specialist of the Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Management, CAF

    • Gloria Roely Reyes Gómez General Director, Supérate Program of the Presidency of the Dominican Republic
    • Neyla Yadira Amú Venté Mayor of Timbiquí, Colombia
    • Arabela Carreras Governor of Rio Negro, Argentina
    • Malena Galmarini President of AYSA, Argentina
    • Claudia Palacios Journalist and columnist for El Tiempo, Colombia
    • Lorena Soto Director of the entrepreneurial education area of ​​the Fundación Paraguaya
  • Final remarks
    • Ana María Baiardi Manager for Gender, Inclusion and Diversity, CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean-