Conference on improving SDGs by enhancing women’s empowerment held

BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health and the University of Groningen, Netherlands have recently co-organised a conference titled ‘Improving Sustainable Development Goals by Enhancing Women’s Empowerment’ to stimulate closer cooperation and mutual knowledge exchange between different stakeholders.

The conference started with welcome remarks from Dr Kaosar Afsana, professor, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, and Dr Lensink Bernardus Wander, professor, Department of Development Economics, University of Groningen.

Dr Sabina Faiz Rashid, dean and professor, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh attended the conference as a keynote speaker.

On the first day, Dr Ruhul Amin Talukder, additional secretary, ministry of agriculture, chaired the session on the intersection of women’s empowerment and the SDGs.

Anne van Leeuwen, ambassador of the Netherlands attended the inaugural dinner while Dr Tahmeed Ahmed, executive director, icddr,b presented among others.

During the conference, distinguished panelists discussed issues related to nutrition, food security, and gender including SDG interactions and conceptual framework, women empowerment intervention design, integrated nutrition governance, UNICEF conceptual framework of undernutrition and utilisation of health services, Prevention of diseases including life courses, Delivering health & nutrition systems.