End of Year Reflections
International Conferences and Forums – Presentations, Advocacy, and Knowledge Production
International Association for Feminist Economists (IAFFE) Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, July 2023, Envisioning Feminist Economics Strategies for an Equitable and Sustainable World
@Ana Androsik, FDR CEO with peer alums from the @New School for Social Research PhD in Economics Program in New York – got to brainstorm new strategies for advancing feminist economic agenda in Cape Town.
Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) Annual Conference, Evaluation in a Changing World, Quebec City, Canada
Staying current with a gender and non-colonial lens in evaluation field and learning about best practices; reconnecting in person with our colleagues, partners and long-term collaborators
@Ana Androsik, FDR CEO with Dr. Harry Cummings, former President and current Treasurer of CES and Harry Cummings and Associates Team Members @Josephine Bamanya
@Ana Androsik, FDR CEO with our partner Annie Montcalm-Cardinal, MEAL Program Officer, Oxfam-Québec, discussed lessons learned from partnering on the baseline evaluation for advancing women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights – developing a baseline methodology from a feminist and non-colonial lens.
Select Spotlights from Some of Our Offices and Projects Globally
Gender and Inclusion Assessment and the Development of the New Approach for the Carter Center Peace Programs (Rule of Law, Human Rights, Democratization and Peace) – 2023-2024
The Carter Center has historically demonstrated a strong commitment to instituting innovative programming for women and girls. As a critical next step, The Carter Center sought to strengthen its work with women and girls by adapting a more expansive approach toward gender and inclusion. In consideration of the important role that intersectional identity politics and gender issues play in human rights, democracy, conflict resolution, and rule of law, The Carter Center retained FDR as a consultant to conduct an assessment to improve its gender programming and seek new innovations for improving gender and inclusion approach in programming.
@Ana Androsik, CEO @FDR with @Zara Mahdi, Public Relations Director and Gender Based Violence Senior Expert @ Oliver Chapman, Senior Expert, Gender and Intersectionality in London, UK - May, 2023
Consortium member of the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Lab of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) – responsible for gender assessment and RAIL programming evaluation - 2022-2025
This research focuses on the goals, processes, and results of the project being currently implemented by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana, one of the leading universities in Africa. The Responsible Artificial Intelligence Lab (RAIL) project at KNUST in Ghana is implemented in a consortium with major universities in Senegal and Cape Verde as well as with non-for profit and corporate partners. Foundation for Data and Research (FDR) Ghana is member of this consortium responsible for the gender and evaluation components.
RAIL is funded by the governments of Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Germany and aims to train and develop skills of the next generation of workforce in West Africa to work with AI to enable young women, in particular, to take advantage of the new workstyles that it fosters. Specific focus is also placed on boosting numbers of female researchers and providing an enabling environment for engineering certifications, gender friendly curriculum that can accommodate needs of female researchers with family and children. The claim is that RAIL will be a Maker Space to provide support for entrepreneurial nurturing and creation of spin-offs.
Regional Support Center for Anti-corruption Defense in El Salvador / Resiliencia El Salvador para la lucha contra la corrupción y la transparencia (RESCATE) 2023-2025 funded by United States Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL)
FDR and our El Salvador-based research team will lead baseline and final evaluations for the Carter Center project funded by INL and will ensure that The Carter Center’s evaluation approach will be rigorous, particularly in regard to changes in the restrictive environment, and the results will indicate which interventions are having effects traceable to the relevant efforts and where tactics or approaches require adjustment.
More Spotlights for Year 2023
Women Deliver 2023, Kigali, Rwanda
FDR consultants were able to learn first-hand about the renewed commitment of multiple governments to the Sustainable Development Goal number 5, Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls.
WEFTEC – Water Quality Event in Chicago, USA, 2023
We were able to share our knowledge in Water and Sanitation Sector data analysis from a non-colonial lens with key experts from Safe Water Network Ghana, among others.
CoSP10 - Atlanta, USA,
December 2023
