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4. Development Implications for Gender Based Violence: Closing Session Watch Video Connection Speed: High Speed Low Speed Audio    Event Title : Development Implications for Gender Based Violence: Opening Session Date : 11/9/2004 Duration : 01:33:20 minutes Language  : English Country/Region : World Keyword :  Gender  Human Development   Presenter : Roberto Danino Danny  Leipziger Christiaan  Poortman Julian  Schweitzer | Related Material | Recommendations |Related B-SPAN Videos |  DESCRIPTION  The workshop on the Development Implications of Gender-Based Violence was part of an ongoing initiative of the Gender and Development Group, the Gender and Development Board and various other World Bank units to raise awareness about gender-based violence (GBV) and highlight the impact it has on the World Bank’s work. The workshop sought to inform Bank staff about the issue of GBV, to provide them with the most current information pertaining to the causes and development impacts of the issue, and to spark debate and action as to ways in which the World Bank can address this issue in its work. The all-day event opened with addresses from James Wolfensohn and Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and was followed by panel discussions, presentations and break-out sessions on different aspects of GBV. The speakers came from both within and outside of the World Bank and were carefully selected to ensure broad regional and topical representation and to provide participants with the necessary depth and breadth of information about GBV. During the closing session representatives from each of the four breakout groups reported back to the larger group on the main outcome of their sessions. The breakout sessions (which we were unable to capture on B-SPAN) covered the following topics: social protection, microfinance and GBV; education, health and GBV; GBV in conflict-affected environments; and legal aspects of GBV. A roundtable discussion with Bank management followed. Participants included Julian Schweitzer, Sector Director for Human Development, SASHD, Christiaan Poortman, VP for the Middle East and North Africa (MNA) region, Roberto Danino, Senior VP of the Legal Department, and Danny Leipziger, VP of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) unit. The discussion was moderated by Karen Mason, Director of PREM’s Gender and Development Group.  RELATED MATERIALS   Website for the Event on the World Bank Homepage Presentations from the Workshop Gender and Development on the World Bank Homepage RELATED B-SPAN EVENTS Gender (44) Human Development (150)