On May 1st and 2nd, 2024, Harvard's Center for International Development (CID) in partnership with the Harvard Kennedy School' Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) hosted the Global Empowerment Meeting 2024 (GEM24): Breaking Barriers for Women and Girls.
Panel 1, Innovative Interventions in Advancing Gender Equity explored groundbreaking research, practices, and policies that have been shown to materially impact gender equality, justice, and economic opportunity for women and girls in diverse contexts. It focused on successful interventions with evidence-based results and what they teach the development community about what success and impact looks like.
Moderated by Jennifer Moore, Features Editor at GBH News, this panel included:
Gary Barker, President and CEO of Equimundo
Latanya Mapp, President and CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Claudia López Hernández, Former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia and current Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow
Eliana La Ferrara, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School