Gender, Equity, Human Rights, and PHC ¡°Community of Practice¡± Session
for the WHO-Government of Canada project: ¡°Strengthening local and National Primary Health Care and Health Systems for the recovery and resilience of countries in the context of COVID-19¡±
As part of the ongoing series of CoP sessions, WHO will be having their February GER and PHC CoP session on 22 February 2022, 13h30-15h00 CET, which will focus on ¡®¡®Gender mainstreaming and PHC¡±.
Below is the session agenda.
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13:30-13:40 |
Greeting and overview¨C Theadora Koller, Senior Technical Advisor, Health Equity, GER/DGO, and Shannon Barkley, Technical Officer, PHC-SP/HQ on behalf of the GER and PHC CoP organizers (10 mins) |
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13:40-14:25 |
Panel on gender and PHC: What we mean by Gender mainstreaming and Gender Analysis ¨C Isabel Yordi Aguirre, Technical Officer, Gender and Human Rights, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO/EURO) (15 mins) Optimising the community health workforce through gender equity: A gender analysis of Community Health Worker (CHW) policies in Mozambique, Niger and Zambia ¨C Johanna Riha, Research Fellow, ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ International Institute for Global Health on behalf of Asha George, University of the Western Cape (South Africa), and Sagri Singh, United Nations Children¡¯s Fund (UNICEF) (15 mins) A resource: updated WHO manual on gender mainstreaming for health programme managers -Evelyn Boy-Mena, Technical Officer for Gender, GER/DGO, and Claudia Isabel Marques de Abreu Lopes and TK Sundari Ravindran, ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ International Institute for Global Health (²ÝÁñÊÓƵ-IIGH) (15 mins) |
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14:25-14:55 |
Feedback, additional resources and Questions and answers (30 mins) Additional resources: Sharing of WHO/PAHO work on ¡®Gender Mainstreaming in Health: Advances and Challenges in the Region of the Americas¡¯ publication- Catharina Cuellar, Advisor, Gender and Health, World Health Organization Regional Office for Americas/ Pan American Health Organization (WHO/PAHO) |
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14:55-15:00 |
Wrapping up, next steps/readings and close (5 mins) Note: this will include an overview of the template to be considered for the Country Office presentations during the March and April COPs on GER activities conducted through the grant. |
Webinar details
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February 22, 8:30 pm MYT
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Zoom link:
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Meeting ID: 988 4898 8373
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Passcode: d31.Duja (Please be careful not to leave a space before or after)
Kindly note that the session will be recorded and the link will be shared later (in case of being unable to attend the session).
