🌍✨ Proud to have partnered with Keely Rogers from Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief (CPAR) at the Spur Change | Activer le changement Pathways to Gender Equality conference last week. We hosted a workshop "Beyond the Conventional: Building Inclusive Pathways to Gender Equality in Global Health." Together, we explored the intersections of gender, race, ability, and age in global health, pushing beyond traditional frameworks to foster truly inclusive and equitable health solutions. A big thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to a solutions-focused dialogue! It was a pleasure to take part in the entire conference where we learned from so many SMOs working to advance gender equality. 🌍 #GenderEquality #GlobalHealth #Inclusion #SocialImpact #PathwaysToGE
Day 2 of the #PathwaysToGE conference is now behind us, but the meaningful discussions will be continuing tomorrow. For today's opening panel, international leaders in gender equality shared their personal stories, lessons learned, and paths that need to be taken to advance gender equality even further in the international cooperation sector. Thanks so much to the speakers who made their way to Canada to share their insights and personal journeys with us: Iris Canham, Roheena Ali Shah, Sada Segeja, and Zulpher bashir Mbwana. Also a big thank you to the speakers' respective Canadian partners for hosting them: The Roll a Hippo Foundation, My Oral Village | Lighting the path out of poverty, and Community Forests International. The day continued with a series of engaging workshops. Anne Pringle from Lucky Iron Life and Keely Rogers from Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief (CPAR) led the first workshop on ensuring inclusivity with gender equality work—how to engage marginalized groups in practice. Afterwards, Stephanie Calver shared how Right to Learn Afghanistan is leveraging online tools for education and then led a collective reflection on good practices on how to bridge the gap of inequality when working with international partners, educators, students, and technology, through a gender equal lens. The final workshop was facilitated by Results Canada who took us through how to use advocacy as a tool for gender equality and ways for SMOs to advocate, share their impact, and be heard. The last event of the evening was Small Steps, Big Results hosted in collaboration with Aga Khan Foundation Canada. We were honoured to welcome Anita Vandenbeld for opening words before a panel of SMOs shared how they're advancing gender equality in their current work. Thank you to Hyang Cho from Good Neighbours Canada, Dianne Losing from Medical Mercy Canada, Karine Casault, B.A, MBA from Mer et Monde, Roheena Ali Shah, Geetanjali Gill, PhD from University of the Fraser Valley, and Dennis Stuebing, PhD from Wisdom2Action for sharing your impacts. 🌍🌏🌎
