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Development Marketplace 2018: Innovations in Addressing Gender-Based Violence

April 17, 2018

Washington, D.C.

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  • The World Bank Group and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) present Development Marketplace 2018: Innovations in Addressing Gender-Based Violence. Watch LIVE as 11 teams from around the world receive awards for their evidence-based research and innovative work to address the global epidemic of gender-based violence. Follow the event on Twitter: #GBVsolutions.

    A one-hour reception will follow the event, to enable attendees to meet the winning teams.

    Speakers:

    Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group

    Philippe Le Houerou, Executive Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer, International Finance Corporation

    Caren Grown, Senior Director, Gender, World Bank Group

    World Bank Group Regional Vice Presidents

    Moderator: 

    Maggie Lake, Business Reporter, CNN

  • 2018 Winners

    Winner

    Research

    Country

    Enterprise Incubator Foundation

    Geeks against GBV: Unlocking Potential of new change Makers and Leveraging ICT Solutions

    Armenia

    Monash University

    Culture for change: Prevention of gender based violence in Cambodia

    Cambodia

    Fundación Juan Felipe Gómez Escobar

    Evaluation of the Impact of the Adolescent Mother Program of Fundación Juanfe in the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence

    Colombia

    Internet Sexuality Information Services

    ZonaSegura: A trauma-informed youth-centered innovative solution to teen dating violence prevention

    Honduras

    Try Center for Training and Education

    Follow up Primary Prevention Program of Intimate Partner Violence among New Married Couples in Jordan

    Jordan

    Send a Cow

    Examining the effectiveness of a gender transformative approach in economic empowerment programs to reduce Intimate Partner Violence

    Kenya

    Equal Access International

    Diffusion of Gender Norms Change at the Community Level in Nepal

    Nepal

    Innovations for Poverty Action

    Training Local Leaders to Prevent and Reduce Gender-Based Violence in their Communities: Impact Evaluation of Leaders in Action (LIA), Peru

    Peru

    Equal Playing Field

    Adaptation and scale up of School Action Groups in schools in Bougainville and Papua New Guinea

    Papua New Guinea

    Fundación Plan International España

    Assessing the long-term impacts of an empowerment training on gender based violence and household energy use in humanitarian settings in Rwanda

    Rwanda

    Human Sciences Research Council

    Evaluating a walking school bus as a school-related gender-based violence intervention in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    South Africa

EVENT DETAILS

  • WHEN: 4 to 6 p.m. ET
  • WHERE: Preston Auditorium, World Bank Headquarters
  • CONTACT: Chandrani Ray
  • cray@worldbank.org
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