Gender, Poverty, and the Way Forward: Development work and the power of micro-transformations from the bottom-up

​As part of the Poverty Stoplight Innovation Week, this conversation will explore the relationship between gender, poverty, and social change, with a focus on how bottom-up approaches can create meaningful “micro-transformations” in people’s lives and communities. Featured guest Professor Emeritus Naila Kabeer of the London School of Economics and Political Science will bring her renowned expertise on gender, development, empowerment, and social justice to a discussion on what it takes to advance more inclusive and transformative development practice.

​In conversation with Dr. Julia Corvalan of Poverty Stoplight and the International Development University in Paraguay, and Yvette Torres-Rahman, Co-founder and CFO of Business Fights Poverty, the session will examine how development work can better recognize women’s agency, lived experience, and everyday pathways out of poverty. Together, they will reflect on the changes — large and small, individual and collective — that can help build more equitable futures from the bottom up.

​This session will be held in English with simultaneous live Spanish translation.