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USAID Symposium on Girls' Education, May 17-18, 2000, Washington, DC.
In addition to providing technical and training assistance in-country, SAGE organizes national and international workshops from Washington to bring together policy makers, practitioners, scholars and girls' education advocates to share knowledge and best practices and disseminate strategies for advancing girls' education. The following is a list of workshops and conferences held to date in Washington DC by the SAGE project.
USAID
Workshop on Girls' Education
August
12-13, 1999
Working closely with USAID's Office of
Women in Development (G/WID), and representatives of Juárez and
Associates, EDC, AIR, and other cooperating organizations, SAGE Washington
provided the planning, coordination, and technical and logistical support
for a two-day workshop. The workshop, hosting 45 participants including
USAID Mission Education Officers and 5 GWE/GEA/SAGE host country coordinators,
focused on incorporating all sectors into the planning and implementation
of a girls’ education project, from the context analysis, strategy and
design, to the management, monitoring and evaluation, and building of coalitions
and networks to sustain girls’ education projects.
Institutional
Advancement and Fundraising for Non-Traditional Program Partners
October
22, 1999
Dr. Antonio Rigual was contracted to present
a seminar on strategies for local institutions to set and achieve realistic
and sustainable human and financial resource targets. The seminar
was attended by approximately 20 project directors and associates and USAID
staff.
USAID
Forum on Girls' Education
December
1, 1999
Approximately 55 participants, representing
policy makers, scholars and practitioners in girls’ education from bilateral
and multilateral donors and cooperating agencies, took part in the eight
topical and plenary sessions of the Forum. The purpose of the Forum
was to define current issues and perspectives on major topics in girls’
education. The Forum Proceedings clarifies the main issues on girls’
educational programming and was a guiding reference for the 200-person
Symposium held in May 2000.
USAID
Symposium on Girls' Education
May
17-18, 2000
SAGE Washington convened a 200-person
symposium sponsored by the USAID Office of Women in Development (G/WID).
The purpose of the Symposium was to consult on core topics and issues of
controversy in girls' education and to develop implications for policy
and practice. The participants included 200 domestic and international
“policy shapers”–senior planners, program managers, evaluators; researchers;
international agency representatives; and other practitioners from the
public and private sectors. Over thirty countries were represented
among the participants, from Peru to Pakistan, with approximately 80 participants
arriving from outside of the United States. To learn more about the Symposium,
please click here: Symposium.
USAID
Colloquium on HIV/AIDS and Girls' Education
October
25-26, 2000
The colloquium was the first ever event
sponsored by a donor organization or government to explore the relationship
of HIV/AIDS to girls’ education. Over 150 participants attended the
panel presentation on the first day and heard from a panel of top researchers
and senior USAID officials, including Professor Alan Whiteside, director
of the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division of the University
of Natal, Durban, South Africa. Keynote remarks were made by Uganda’s
Ambassador to the United States, the Honorable Edith Ssempala. On the second
day, approximately 40 participants met to discuss the results of the previous
day’s panel discussions and to frame an agenda for collaborative and innovative
responses to the crisis.