2017 International Women’s Day – Invitation, program, webex link

Dear Colleagues,

8 March is International Women’s Day

At ILRI, we always mark it. The theme this year is ‘be bold for change’

This year in Nairobi, we have set up a bold program for all staff (regional staff, please join by webex).

The Nairobi program is:

10:30 IWD coffee outside JVC

10:45 Participants move, with coffee and tea, to JVC

11:00 Presentation by Iain Wright on diversity and gender in the CGIAR/ILRI workplace

11:20 (or so) Stella Kiwango introduces 3 staff to talk briefly on their experiences as women in ILRI’s workplace

11:30 Audience exercise with Nicoline de Haan on ‘me and gender’

11:50 Panel discussion with audience engagement on: Livestock research on gender – be bold for change?

12:25 Closing remarks/reaction by Stella and Iain

12:30 Close