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Compounding Barriers: Access to Economic Opportunities, Gender and Forced Displacement

April 6, 2022

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  • How does gender inequality and forced displacement compound to constrain the livelihoods of displaced women? In a presentation of their recent research on Darfur and Ethiopia, Tilman Bruck, Founder and Director for the International Center for Security and Development, and Yeshwas Admasu Bogale, Economist with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), underscored the need to design durable solutions through inclusive, intersectional approaches.

    An expert panel whcih included Khwima Nthara from the World Bank and Line Astrom from UNHCR shared strategies to prepare these durable solutions to forced displacement.    

  • Xavier Devictor

    Xavier Devictor is the Advisor for the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group at the World Bank, leading work on forced displacement as a development challenge. He has broad experience across regions on country programs, strategy and policy dialogue, most recently as Country Manager for Poland and the Baltic Countries until 2014, and Country Program Coordinator for Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti from 2007-2011. Earlier in his career, he was Program Manager for UNHCR in the former Yugoslavia, where he managed humanitarian programs including leading humanitarian convoys into conflict areas.

    Professor Tilman Br¨¹ck

    Professor Tilman Br¨¹ck is the Founder and Director of ISDC. He is also Professor at the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich and Team Leader ¨C Development Economics and Food Security at IGZ near Berlin. Tilman is also the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) and the Principal Investigator of the Life in Kyrgyzstan Study (LiK Study). His research interests focus on the economics of household behavior and well-being in areas affected by violent conflict, fragility and humanitarian emergencies, including the measurement of violence and conflict in household surveys and the impact evaluation of programs in conflict-affected areas. Tilman was previously Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE), Director of SIPRI, Professor of Development Economics at Humboldt-University of Berlin, and Head of the Department of Development and Security at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).

    Yeshwas Admasu Bogale

    Yeshwas Admasu Bogale is an Economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Previously, he was a Young Fellow in Forced Displacement at the World Bank, examining multidimensional poverty in the context of forced displacement and access to resources and opportunities for restoring livelihoods as part of the gender dimensions of forced displacement research program.

    Khwima Nthara

    Khwima Nthara is the World Bank¡¯s Country Manager for Liberia based in Monrovia, a position he has held since 2019.Before assuming this position, he was an Economic Adviser in the Operations Policy and Country Services (OPCS) Vice Presidency in Washington. Prior to this position, Khwima was program leader in Nigeria and senior Country Economist for Nigeria, Myanmar, and Malawi. Before joining the World Bank, Khwima was an economics lecturer at the University of Malawi, as well as country manager for the Malawi Trade and Poverty Program, and country manager for Deloitte¡¯s Development Consulting Practice.

    Line Astrom

    Line Astrom is a Senior Livelihoods and Economic Inclusion Officer at UNHCR. She has worked at UNHCR for the past 16 years and previous positions have included Senior Partership Officer and Senior Regional Livelihoods Officer in Africa.

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