Agenda Technical Meeting

AGENDA TECHNICAL MEETING

JULY 22-23, 2010

World Bank, Room MC 2-800

Thursday July 22nd, 2010

8:30-9:00Registration and Breakfast

9:00 -9:15Welcome and Introduction

• Mayra Buvinic, Director, Gender and Development Group, World Bank

9:15-10:00Session 1: “The Girl Effect”:Why Adolescent Girls

• Stuart Hogue, Director for Strategic Initiatives, Nike Foundation

10:00-11:00Best Practices in Adolescent Girls Programming

• Judith Bruce, Senior Associate and Policy Analyst, Population Council

11.00 -11.15Coffee Break

11.15-1.15Workshops: Recruitment and Asset Building

• Facilitator: Karen Austrian,Staff Associate, Nairobi Office, Population Council

1:15-2:30Lunch (Buffet)

• Lunch speaker: Nadra Franklin, Director of Impact Assessment for AED's Global Health, Population and Nutrition Group, Academy for Educational Development (AED)

2:30-4:00Session 2: AGI Country Project Design and Implementation

Chair: Andy Morrison, Chief, Gender and Diversity Unit, Inter-American Development Bank

• Liberia
• Presentation by Eve Lotter, AGI Project Coordinator and DalaKorkoyah, AGI M&E Director,
• Comment by RuiBenfica, Task Team Leader, AGI-Liberia, World Bank
• Nepal
• Presentation by Shiva Prasad Aryal, Country Program Director, Helvetas Nepal
• Comment by Lava DeoAwasthi, Joint Secretary, Planning Division Ministry of Education
• Comment by Peter Lafere, Team Member, AGI-Nepal, World Bank

Q & A and Discussion: 30 minutes

4:00-4:15Coffee Break

4:15- 5:30Session 3: Access to credit and savings & financial literacy training

Chair: David McKenzie, Senior Economist, Development Research Group

• Monique Cohen, President, Microfinance Opportunities
• Fiona Macaulay, President, Making Cents International
• Karen Austrian, Staff Associate, Nairobi Office, Population Council

Q & A and Discussion: 30 minutes

6:00Reception

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

8:30-9:00Breakfast

9:00-10:30Session 4: AGI Country Project Design and Implementation

Chair: Desiree Bliss, Portfolio Manager, Nike Foundation

• Afghanistan
• Presentation by NajlaSabri, Task Team Member, AGI-Afghanistan
• Comment by Jennifer Solotaroff, Task Team Leader, AGI-Afghanistan
• South Sudan
• Presentation by K.M. Ferdous, Project Manager, AGI-South Sudan, BRACand ManishaBhinge, Program Manager, BRAC USA
• Comment by YasminTayyab, Task Team Leader, AGI-South Sudan, World Bank

Q & A and Discussion: 30 minutes

10:30-12:00Session 5: Matching girls’ skills to market needs & curricula development

Chair: Wendy Cunningham, Lead Specialist, Children and Youth Unit, World Bank

• Laura Bures, Director, International Youth Foundation
• Carol Michaels O'Laughlin, VP for Empowerment and Civic Engagement, Winrock
• Mario Pasco DallaPorta, Former Planning Director, ProJoven, Peru

Q & A and Discussion: 30 minutes

12:00-12:15 Update on the AGI High-level Event: October 6, 2010

Jill Merrick, Communications Consultant, Gender and Development Group, World Bank

12:15-1:30 Lunch(Buffet)

1:30-2:45Session 6: AGI Country Project Design and Implementation

Chair: Maureen A. Lewis, Adviser, Human Development, Africa Region, World Bank

• Rwanda
• Olive Ingabire, Acting Project Manager, Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion
• Comment by Christopher Finch, Task Team Leader, AGI –Rwanda and Paula Rossiasco, Operations Analyst and Team member, AGI – Rwanda.
• Jordan
• Presentation by Tara Vishwanath, Task Team Leader - AGI-Jordan, and David McKenzie, Senior Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

Q & A and Discussion: 30 minutes

2:45-3:00Coffee Break

3:00-5:15Session 7: From Pilot to Programs and Policies

Chair: Mayra Buvinic, Director, Gender and Development Group, World Bank

• The Role of Impact Evaluation
• ShubhaChakravarty, Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
• Comments by Mattias Lundberg, Senior Economist, Children and Youth Unit, World Bank

• Institutionalizing the AGI: Roundtable discussion with AGI Teams
• Facilitator: Tara Vishwanath, Lead Economist, Poverty Reduction, MENA, World Bank

5:15-5:30Wrap-up