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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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Leveraging Cash Transfers to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence at Scale (A CSW 63 SIDE EVENT)

Co-Organized by UN Women, SIDA, and Prime Minister’s Office (United Republic of Tanzania)

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UN Women, Conference Room 409-48

220 East 42nd Street

New York, United States

March 13, 2019

  • 11:30 – 1:00 pm (America/New_York)
  • 4:30 – 6:00 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 9:00 – 10:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

Over 1.9 billion people benefit from social safety nets around the world, however effects on intra-household dynamics and gender implications of large-scale programming is rarely rigorously evaluated. This event will focus on growing evidence linking cash transfers to intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries and features research from the Cash Transfer and Intimate Partner Violence Research Collaborative, the Prevention Collaborative and the International Rescue Committee.

A growing evidence base demonstrates that cash transfers have potential to reduce IPV, with women’s economic and social empowerment serving as important pathways. Leading researchers on these topics will explore what we know about design variations, contextual factors, including humanitarian settings, and how evidence can be used to understand program parameters to be more gender sensitive and transformative. The evidence will be followed by a discussion by policymakers designing and implementing cash programming to understand how evidence has been used and how implementation can better account for gender dynamics.

Co-Chairs

  • Dan Seymour, Director, UN Women Humanitarian Action and Crisis Response Office
  • Sarah Mshiu, Senior Economist, Prime Minister’s Office, United Republic of Tanzania
  • Eva Johansson, Lead Policy Advisor for Gender Equality, SIDA

Participants

  • Lori Heise, Professor of Gender, Violence and Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH); and Technical Director, Prevention Collaborative
  • Tia Palermo, Senior Social Policy Specialist (Innocenti and Transfer Project Principal Investigator), UNICEF Office of Research
  • Shalini Roy, Research Fellow, IFPRI; and leader, “Social Protection Delivery and Outcomes,” CGIAR Research Cluster
  • Kathryn Falb, Senior Researcher, International Rescue Committee

RSVP Space is limited; please RSVP no later than March 11 to Yemarshet Sissay at yemarshet.sissay@unwomen.org

Please allow 15 mins to pass through security at UN Women. Light lunch and coffee will be served.

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