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Making Markets Accessible to the Most Marginalized

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

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Session Description

Some 800 million people still live in extreme poverty, suffering disproportionately from marginalization and exclusion related to gender, disability, ethnicity, and other forms of inequality. Evidence suggests that many market-based approaches don’t reach the most marginalized groups, and when they do, social movements play a key role. This workshop will cover opportunities to advance market-based approaches to improve the livelihoods of the most marginalized, through the lens of disabled women. Along the way, we’ll explore and debate the critical enabling factors necessary to move forward.


Speaker(s):
  • Head of Disability Policy, Inclusive Societies Department, Department for International Development
    Carrie is currently the Head of Disability Policy at the UK’s Department for International Development. Prior to this role Carrie was seconded to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s to facilitate cross-agency learning on disability-inclusion policy and to support the establishment of the new Innovation Exchange. Other roles with DFID include: designing and leading the innovation and private sector windows of Girls Education Challenge, the largest programme dedicated to girls education globally; management of the UK’s aid portfolio in Helmand, Afghanistan; and Private Secretary to a range of DFID Minister's.
  • Honorary Associate, EcoAgriculture Partners
    Jim is a specialist in inclusive business, food value chains, global food systems, and multi-stakeholder partnerships. He has over 25 years international experience working on sustainable development in the fields of market systems, agriculture, rural development and natural resource management. Jim has Honorary Associate roles with Oxford University and the Institute of Development Studies and also operates as an independent consultant. His current work is on inclusive agribusiness and the nexus between food systems and the global challenges of poverty, health and environment. He also directs the Knowledge for Development Programme of the UK Department for International Development (DFID). He was formerly the Head of Profession for Food Security and Rural Development with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Director of the Centre for Development Innovation at Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands. Jim’s inspiration comes from working with people and organisations to create pathways towards sustainability and social justice through innovative partnerships between business, government, civil society and research. He is a highly experienced facilitator and brings a deep understanding of systems thinking, value chain management, organizational change and participatory approaches to innovation. Jim has a PhD in political economics and a degree in agricultural science. His publications include: Chain Wide Learning for Inclusive Agrifood Market Development; From Islands of Success to Seas of Change – a report on scaling inclusive agri-food markets; The MSP Guide – How to Design and Facilitate Multi-stakeholder Partnerships; and Inclusive Agribusiness – The State of Play. Earlier in his career he worked as an Outward Bound instructor and loves outdoor adventuring with his children.
  • Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
    Jodie Thorpe is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, leading the Institute’s research cluster on business, markets and the state in development. With over 15 years’ experience in research, policy and strategy, she is an expert on inclusive market approaches, value chains, and public-private and multi-stakeholder partnerships. Prior to joining IDS, she was a private sector policy adviser at Oxfam GB and a Director at SustainAbility, a leading think tank and advisory firm on business risks and opportunities from sustainable development. Her recent research has explored the potential for market-based solutions to extreme marginalisation, market systems approaches to enabling women's economic empowerment through addressing unpaid care work and an analysis of state-business relations and their impact on development beyond growth. She also leads a portfolio of research as part of the BEAM Exchange, a global knowledge exchange facility for market systems practitioners. Over the course of her career, Jodie has advised and collaborated with companies and organisations such as ActionAid, ADD International, Anglo-American, the Coady International Institute, the Fairtrade Foundation, Ford, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Natura, Tata Power, The Body Shop, Unilever and WWF.
  • Uganda - ‎Country Director, Action on Disability and Development
    Joseph Walugembe has been Country Director of the ADD International Uganda Programme since 2010. He was Country Development Manager for Sense International (Uganda) from 2005-2010, Advocacy Program Coordinator of the African Union of the Blind from 2002-2004, and Projects Coordinator of Uganda National Association of the Blind from 2001-2002. Joseph represents Persons with Disabilities on the District Service Commission in one of Uganda’s most populous districts. He has also served on boards of various Non-Governmental Organizations in Uganda. Combining lived experience with disability and 15 years of development practice at grassroots, national and international level, he has solid experience in strategy development, implementation and communication, organizational leadership, partnership/networking and effective representation of the interests of persons with disabilities. Joseph was Principal Investigator on the Uganda strand of the recent research project on Market-Based Solutions for the Extreme Poor. He couples this research experience with programmatic experience of improving work opportunities for persons with disabilities. Having overcome the challenges of visual impairment, Joseph aspires to contribute towards making the world more equitable, sensitive and tolerant to diversity.
  • Director, Economic & Rural Development, Self Employed Women Association
    Reema Nanavaty has been working with the SEWA since over 35 years expanding its membership to over 1.5 million members, making it the single largest union of informal sector women workers. Reema facilitated rebuilding lives and livelihoods of 60000 earthquake affected rural women and 40000 riot-affected members. She is leading the rehabilitation programs in Afghanistan and in Srilanka; providing vocational training in rural livelihood security to war-affected widows. Reema oversees 4813 self-help groups (SHG), 160 co-operatives and 15 economic federations, pan India including 16 states, and also in 7 South-Asian countries, focusing on women’s economic empowerment by building women owned enterprises, building women led supply chains, introducing modern ICT-based tools and facilitating Green-Energy initiatives and livelihoods. In 2008, she also initiated the rehabilitation programme in war torn Afghanistan with the support from Government of India. The programme trained the local afghani women on different livelihood skills and the local women have also successfully set-up their local Association. She was honored by Padma Shri for her contribution in area of Social Services in 2013. Reema is currently member of the Advisory Council on Gender of the World Bank Group. Reema Nanavaty was invited as a member of the International Labour Organization’s High Level Global Commission on Future of Work. She is the only commissioner representing the informal sector workers, self employed workers and the rural workers union in the entire commission. She has also been invited as a member of the UN High-level Dialogue`s Technical Working Group on Energy Action to Advance Other SDGs.

Time & Location

Time:
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM, Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Location:
Classroom 2 (WW)