Sometimes new opportunities for gender equality are right in front of us, but we just miss them.
Julie Katzman, executive vice president and COO of the Inter-American Development Bank, believes gender mainstreaming in international development is all about innovative ways of finding opportunities to promote the goal within projects that are not necessarily focused on women’s empowerment, like building a road or a dam.
For instance truck drivers, she said in a video interview with Devex, are mostly male — so why not favor contractors that employ female drivers to advance equality in society?
Check out the above clip for more insights from Katzman on gender mainstreaming in development.
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Adva Saldinger is a Senior Reporter at Devex where she covers development finance, as well as U.S. foreign aid policy. Adva explores the role the private sector and private capital play in development and authors the weekly Devex Invested newsletter bringing the latest news on the role of business and finance in addressing global challenges. A journalist with more than 10 years of experience, she has worked at several newspapers in the U.S. and lived in both Ghana and South Africa.