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Overview

Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world
United Nations International Women’s Day 2021
International Online Conference
Monday 8th March 2021

The conference brings together senior and high level intellectual and practice-based contributors who will help develop a framework for the analysis of the role of women and girls in achieving sustainable inclusive development across the world. You can browse here keynote speakers from our previous international conferences.

In celebration of the United Nations International Women’s Day, WASD and its partners across the world are working together to meaningful and self-led women learnership across the world. The International Women’s Day is celebrated across the world to show the remarkable achievements of women to society and world sustainable development. The conference theme will follow the theme selected by the UN for this year’s celebration “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world.”.

The celebrations this year aims to recognise and acknowledge the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Clearly, women have an untapped potential as a primary mover of greater development across the world and their role is very crucial for increased development, but challenges remain. And so, reforms in economic, social, and political institutions must be made to create an enabling environment for women participation and empowerment.

Diaspora

The collaboration between the Diaspora and those working within the country of origin offers several opportunities and contributes to increase productivity towards sustainable and inclusive knowledge-based growth. Building constructive relationships between the Diasporas and countries of origin require that Diasporas be treated not as a mere resource, but as partners and investors with mutual benefits.

It has long been argued that Diasporas will be most interested in contributing to SD efforts when they have a sense of belonging in relation to their country of origin. Therefore, it is very important to establish trust between Diasporas and governments in the country of origin. In doing so, governments need to invest in identifying their Diasporas abroad and in understanding their skills and interests.

Many sustainability problems can only be tackled by connecting the diaspora with those working within the country of origin, for example combating the results of climate change, diseases such as malaria, reservation of natural resources, fighting land degradation or limiting the loss of biodiversity and many other problems. Moreover, knowledge or evidence-based policymaking is indispensable if gaps in living standards are to be narrowed. Therefore, building capacity in country of origin is necessary for competing in the global arena and there it is critical to turn the diaspora into a positive tool for SD as well as serving as role models for the youth in the country of origin.

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Location

4 Albert Embankment, Lambeth, London, SE1 7FY, United Kingdom

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Team

The conference is organised by several committees from WASD and under close supervision of WASD Advisory Board.

WASD Team

  • Prof. Allam Ahmed: Co-Chair and President WASD
  • Janet Snow: International Coordinator and Editor
  • N. Joseph Navinraj: Publishing
  • Mervyn Clingan: Video Production
Participants

We would like to congratulate the authors for their valuable contribution, and we are grateful to our track chairs and many reviewers for graciously offering their invaluable comments that have enriched the quality of the presentations and also for making available to us their valuable time and efforts. Our most sincere thanks go to all the keynote speakers and panellists who shared with us their expertise and knowledge. Here is a list of distinguished speakers and panellists who have participated at WASD conferences in the past.

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To register/enquire about this conference and all our other conferences and events, please contact us (admin@wasd.org.uk) and if you have any question and/or if you would like to submit any proposal for a conference/event not listed in our portfolio please contact our International Coordinator - Janet Snow at: janet.snow@wasd.org.uk.
Objectives

The conference aims to recognise and acknowledge the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Clearly, women have an untapped potential as a primary mover of greater development across the world and their role is very crucial for increased development, but challenges remain. And so, reforms in economic, social, and political institutions must be made to create an enabling environment for women participation and empowerment.

Women

Women across the world have an untapped potential as a primary mover of greater development within their countries and regions. Their role is very crucial for increased development, but challenges remain. And so, significant reforms in economic, social, and political institutions must be made to create an enabling environment for women participation and empowerment. However, it appears that investments in human development are not readily translated to better economic and political outcomes for women. Unfortunately, women’s potential and crucial role in development across the world is still impeded by these economic and social factors. Women’s participation is also very important in advancing peace, unity and combating terrorism, which is a most serious threat to SD across all regions of the world. It has also been recognized that women have been largely excluded from the processes of conflict management and prevention and that their role is important in the achievement of lasting peace and security (UN, 2015). 

Theme

To rise to the challenges of the 21st century, we need to harness our full potential. That requires dismantling gender stereotypes. Gender equality is fundamentally a question of power. Transforming the balance of power is essential, not only as a question of human rights, personal development, health and well-being. It is critical to solving some of the most damaging and intractable problems of our age. Women’s rights have made significant progress in recent decades, from the abolition of discriminatory laws to increased numbers of girls in school. But we now face a powerful pushback. Legal protections against rape and domestic abuse are being diluted in some countries; women’s sexual and reproductive rights are under threat.

António Guterres
UN Secretary-General

Youth

WASD is very keen to encourage the engagement of children and youth from across the world in the conference. We are keen to make the voice of all our children and youth heard and consequently enabling the decision makers to consider those views and ideas in their big decisions. The entire concept of SD is about the future and the future is all about the children and youth! Youth population is growing rapidly in all regions of the world and we are very keen to understand the children and youth perspectives and expectations for their future to help them be ready to grasp the various opportunities generated in the digital economy. We strongly believe our children and youth should be the cornerstone of any strategy by all governments and policy makers. We must listen to our children and youth and more importantly how we can help our youth with their future employment plans and aspirations. Youth from all-over the world are encouraged to participate in the conference and present their research, perspectives and initiatives.

Publications

To mark the celebration this year, WASD is pleased to launch its new journal: World Journal of Women and Sustainable Development (WJWSD) which will become WASD’s flagship journal focusing on women and sustainable development. WJWSD aims to promote the top quality international research, ideas and information about the role of Women in achieving Sustainable Development across the world. WJWSD will focus on all what you need to know about Women leadership and empowerment particularly issues relating to Women in Developing countries. 

WASD is planning to publish special issues focusing on our conference theme and encourage participants to propose papers and sessions that will be of interest to a diverse audience. Selected papers will be included in WJWSD and the World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development (WJSTSD). We are also keen to write a blog piece about International Women’s Day and the summary of the conference which will be featured in various prestigious websites including our publisher Emerald.

 

 

Speakers

Session One (09:45-11:00)

Moderator
Dr. Hend Al Muftah, Associate Professor and Member of Qatar’s Shura Council, Qatar

  1. Welcome remarks
    Professor Allam AhmedPresident of World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD)
  2. Why do we celebrate women across the world?
    Lena Alam, Y6 Student, Pimlico Primary, London, UK
  3. Women empowerment efforts in Arab World
    Professor Ghada Mohamed Amer, Vice Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Research, Benha University, Egypt
  4. Women’s leadership in higher education institutions
    Professor Liisa Laakso, Senior Researcher, Nordic Africa Institute, University of Uppsala, Sweden

Session Two (11:00-12:30)

Moderator
Dr. Aicha Bammoun, Director of Project and Consultant on STI, Women in Sciences and Big Sciences , Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco

  1. The impact of inclusive leadership on organisational culture and knowledge sharing behavioural intentions at workplace
    Hanan Al Mheiri, Certified KM Manager and KM Practitioner, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  2. Leading with kindness: an intergenerational approach to achieving gender equality
    Ella Robertson, Managing Director, One Young World, UK

Session Three (12:30-13:45)

Moderator
Dr. Sara Beleil, Consultant Psychiatrist, South West London & St. George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, UK

  1. Mental health, leadership and community engagements programs
    Dorcas Gwata, Women in Leadership Program, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK
  2. Women empowerment: breaking barriers towards intergenerational trauma
    Nurulayn Noor, Law Student, University of Ottawa, Canada
  3. Leadership lessons learned from Covid-19
    Dr. Mayada AbuAffan, Consultant in Public Health, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, UK

Session Four (13:45-16:00)

Moderator
Professor Doaa Salman Abdou, Vice Dean and Head of Economics Department, MSA University, Egypt

  1. The need for gender equality education in Latin America
    Dr. Joyce Capelli, President Instituto Melhores Dias, Brazil
  2. Why AI analytics are in the centre of our world today and key to successful operation
    Miryem Salah, Head of Analytics/AI Delivery, Vodafone, UK
  3. The Evolution of Women Empowerment
    Dr. Randa Diab-Bahman, Head of Student Life & Alumni, Kuwait College of Science & Technology, Kuwait
  4. Women in leadership: more fixing the pipeline, less fixing the women
    Professor Kimberly DeSimone, Tenured Associate Professor, Director of MA Strategic Leadership program and Diversity Advocate, Jandoli School of Communications, Saint Bonaventure University, USA

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