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Canada's new feminist international development assistance policy, Devex, 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT2zHvG-vzw
Marie-Claude Bibeau offered details on Canada’s feminist international development assistance policy during a conversation with Devex at the recent World Bank Annual Meetings
Creating Capabilities, Martha Nussbaum Harvard University Press, 2011.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoD-cjduM40
Time 9:40
Nussbaum argues that our dominant theories of development have given us policies that ignore our most basic human needs for dignity and self-respect. As an alternative to metrics like GDP, Nussbaum and other members of the Human Development and Capability Association suggest that we should be asking what each human is actually capable of being and doing.
Development Through a Feminist Lens, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1JWNe9kyhw
Time 26:42
This video covers the announcement by the Canadian government of its feminist international assistance policy, which aims to ensure that at least 95 per cent of Canada’s foreign aid helps improve the lives of women. It is part of an approach that sees a critical role for women in building peace and prosperity in conflict and post-conflict zones. The Agenda talks to some of the people involved in these issues.
Fatima B. Muhammad: Empowered Women Will Change Our World. TEDxEuston, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wD_VW7hHDY
Time 15:54
Fatima B. Muhammad has over 20 years working experience in maternal and child care (including neonatal health care) as a midwife and midwife educator with Kaduna state government. She also has over 11 years’ experience working in the development field. She has served as the head of Family Planning division and the project Director for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supported Maternal and Neonatal Health care project in Gombe, Nigeria; she has managed the USAID supported contraceptive social marketing project (IRHIN) in Nigeria and Women Health Project (Promotion of Longer Term Methods) and is currently the Demand Side Advisor for DFID supported Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH2) being implemented in six states of Northern Nigeria.
Fawzia Koofi: When Women Are at the Table. TEDxPlaceDesNations, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHKsV2_LXF4
Time 17:49
Fawzia Koofi, an Afghan politician and women’s rights activist worked toward women’s rights and Internally Displaced People’s organizations. In 2005, she was elected to parliament to represent Badakhshan, and was then elected by her peers as the first woman Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament. Koofi has been re-elected to a second term in parliament, and is now chairperson of the Women, Human Rights & Civil Society Commission. She is the author of Letters to My Daughters and The Favourite Daughter.
Global Feminism: Leaving no one behind in the Women’s Movement. Annie Lennox TEDxGlasgow, 2019.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-f2sklolRs
Time 13:29
A presentation by Annie Lennox that focuses on ways to challenge and change deep-rooted injustices and standing as a community of global feminists.
Jennifer Lonergan: Empowering Women in Developing Countries. TEDxMontrealWomen, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbtfYNKYing
Time 14:12
In the developing world, where the basics of food, education and health are at stake, the need to transform women’s role is critical. When women are economically empowered, they are able to exert a powerful influence over their own lives, their families and their communities, and effect positive social change. Jennifer Lonergan is the Founder and Executive Director of Artistri Sud, a Canadian charity supporting the empowerment of women in developing countries. She has worked with over 50 artisans and artisan groups in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. As a buyer for fair trade and ethical wholesale and retail markets in North America—in particular, for her own boutique, Artistri—and in partnership with international development organizations in the US and Canada, she has helped support artisans’ efforts to generate revenue by capitalizing on their strengths to meet market needs while supporting cultural heritage preservation.
UNICEF: Girls around the world talk about their lives and rights. UNICEF, 2010.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nIPjDTyxY0
Time 3:15
Report on the status of women 15 years after the Beijing conference.
UN Women Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on the International Day to End Violence against Women 2016. UN Women, 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SawF4MyuYeI
Time 2:47
November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka addresses the socioeconomic impact of violence and urges us to mobilize funding so that we may ensure a bright future free of violence for all women and girls.
World Bank Praxis Discussion Series: Women and Development. World Bank, 2010.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH8KwSG4q2w
Time 57:22
This panel-style program on the role of women in international development features four specialists: Elizabeth Reid, development consultant; Gillian Brown, AusAID; Andrew Rowell, CARE Australia; and Robert Dunn, Opportunity International Australia. Moderated by Olivia Rousset.