Gender Inequality and Macroeconomics (GM)
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- Session: CE 24.16
- Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Dates: September 8-12, 2024 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
Target audience and qualifications
- Target audience:
- Mid-level to senior officials from central banks, ministries of finance, and other government agencies tasked with the design and execution of gender-responsive policies.
- Qualifications and preferences:
- Applications from officials currently engaged in gender-responsive policy formulation and implementation, or those with a past background in these areas, will be given preference.
- All participants are expected to have a degree in economics or social sciences, or equivalent experience.
- Participants are expected to be proficient in the use of Microsoft Excel.
Course description and approach
- Focus and scope:
- Highlights the macroeconomic implications of gender inequality and provides an overview of policy measures to help empower women.
- Discusses trends over time and across countries in gender inequality, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Stresses the importance of closing gender gaps for inclusive and sustainable growth.
- Analyzes policy options in the fiscal, labor, financial, and legal areas to help address gender inequality.
- Pedagogy and activities:
- Emphasizes active learning through a mix of lectures, workshops, facilitated break-out sessions, homework assignments, and presentations by participants.
- Goal: help participants apply acquired knowledge and skills to analyze key gender-related challenges in their own country and formulate prioritized reform programs.
Course objectives
- Upon completion, participants should be able to:
- Understand the links between gender equality and macroeconomics, including in terms of growth, inclusiveness, diversification, and sustainability.
- Use key sources of gender-disaggregated data and relevant toolkits to assess countries’ progress towards gender equality, including how this has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of gender equality on macroeconomic performance.
- Discuss key policies and measures to address gender inequality, including appropriate gender-budgeting practices.
- Formulate prioritized reform programs to address gender inequality in their own country.
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