Working on Gender Equality in Fragile Contexts

Two billion people live in countries where development outcomes are affected by fragility, conflict, and violence. This panel, convened for the launch of Gender and Development journal’s new issue, is dedicated to the challenges of working on gender in fragile contexts. It aims to contribute to knowledge around the need to address gender inequality (in policy and practice in fragile contexts), based on women's and girls' realities (in fragile conflict-affected locations) - and share experience and analysis about what this means in practice.

Bele Grau is a PhD candidate at the Goethe University Frankfurt, conducting an ethnographic research project on women’s movements in Afghanistan.

Diana Koester advises the OECD-DAC International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF) on gender, peacebuilding and statebuilding and conducts DPhil (Politics) research on these issues at the University of Oxford.

Corrie Sissons is a member of the Emergency Food Security and Vulnerable Livelihoods Team (EFSVL) in Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team, and former EFSVL Coordinator for Iraq.

Rainatou Sow is Executive Director of Make Every Woman Count, an African woman-led organisation which serves as a mobilising, networking, information, advocacy and training platform for African women by building their leadership capacities to influence policy and decision making. Rai has over 10 years of experience working in the field of development, women and youth, with organisations such as the International Organisation for Migration, World Health Organisation and UNICEF.

Hannah Bond is Director of GAPS, the UK Gender Action on Peace and Security Network.

Caroline Sweetman is Editor of Gender and Development.

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