SIPA’S ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT CONCENTRATION PRESENTS

THE WORKSHOP IN DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE

2018 FINAL PRESENTATIONS ROOM 1501, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BUILDING, 420 WEST 118TH STREET THURSDAY, APRIL 26 9:30 – 9:50 9:50 – 10:20

10:30 – 11:00

11:10 – 11:40

BREAKFAST AND WELCOME Supporting Innovation Labs to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan United Nations Development Programme Evaluation of Orbis India's Initiative to Combat Avoidable Blindness in School-Going Children Orbis International and Orbis India Opportunities for Saudi Arabia to Boost Women's Economic Participation Center for Strategic Development

FRIDAY, APRIL 27 9:30 – 9:50

BREAKFAST AND WELCOME

9:50 – 10:20

Designing an Interactive Dashboard to Monitor Cash Assistance to Refugees in the MENA Region United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

10:30 – 11:00

Data Management Systems Strengthening in THP’s Microfinance Program The Hunger Project

11:10 – 11:40

Assessing the Needs and Social Impact of Asian Women Social Entrepreneurs Asian Women Social Entrepreneurs Network Strengthening Educational Support for Ethnic Minority Youth from Myanmar Hway Ka Loke Boarding School

11:50 – 12:20

Mitigating Earthquake Risk in Mexico Through Microinsurance EA Consultants

11:50 – 12:20

12:30 – 1:00

Mapping Customer Journeys with Mobile Wallets in Viet Nam UN Capital Development Fund

12:30 – 1:00

Experience with the "Delivery Approach" to Education in Rwanda International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity

1:00 – 2:30

LUNCH BREAK

1:00 – 2:20

LUNCH BREAK

2:30 – 3:00

Rethinking Gender Equality and Intersectionality in Humanitarian Settings Women’s Refugee Commission

2:20 –2:50

Assessing South-South Initiatives to Eliminate Hunger in West Africa World Food Programme’s Centre of Excellence Against Hunger

3:10 – 3:40

Measuring Progress Toward the Sustainable Development Goals in Urban Contexts in Colombia Fundación Corona

3:00 – 3:30

Designing a Strategy to Provide Primary Education in Rural Guinea-Bissau Frutas e Legumes, AGRIECO and Ubuntu Foundation

3:50 – 4:20

A "Best Place to Work" Initiative for the Public Sector in Brazil Instituto República

3:40 – 4:10

4:30 – 5:00

Supporting Alumni of TechnoServe´s Business Accelerators in Central America TechnoServe

4:20 – 4:50

5:10 – 5:40

Assessment of the Model UN New Silk Way Program in Central Asia Model UN New Silk Way

4:55 – 5:25

6:00 – 8:00

RECEPTION AND 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

5:30 – 6:00

Insights into Smallholder Farmers' Willingness to Use Mobile Technology in Sierra Leone WARC Group Review of SEWA's New Initiatives to Engage and Support Young Women in India Self-Employed Women’s Association Addressing Youth Homelessness in Nicaragua through Sustainable Social Enterprise Covenant House International Demonstrating Basic Income Effects in the United States Jain Family Institute

Contact Ilona Vinklerova at [email protected] / (212) 851-4105 for further information.

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BREAKFAST AND WELCOME. 9:50 – 10:20. Supporting Innovation Labs to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.

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