Presentation/s:

Are existing measures of poverty and gender equity genuinely gender sensitive? The ANU is currently involved in a three-year, multi-country, interdisciplinary effort, financed by the Australian Research Council and project partners, to design and test measures of poverty and gender disparity that will improve on existing indices. In March, academics, staff from partner organisations and field researchers will be in Canberra to share findings from the first fieldwork phase of the project, which seeks to elicit the views of poor men and women on poverty and its gendered dimensions.

The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, the new Gender Institute and the Development Policy Centre at the Crawford School of Economics and Government hosted a half-day forum to enable the wider academic, policy and NGO community to hear from and talk with the research team about how gender shapes poverty, with particular reference to field contexts in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and why this matters for development policy. Time for questions is built into every session. An informal lunch will provide anopportunityfor further discussion with field researchers and project team member

Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, and Professor in Philosophy at ANU.

Alice Banze, Gender and Advocacy Coordinator, Oxfam Great Britain.

Jo Crawford, Policy and Research, International Women’s Development Agency.

Fatima Castilo, Researcher, Philippine Health Social Science Association and University of the Philippines, Manila.

Priya Chattier, Researcher, University of the South Pacific, Fiji.

Maggie Banda, Women’s Legal Resource Centre, Malawi.

Alison Jaggar, College Professor of Distinction, University of Colorado, Boulder.