The "REIMAGINING WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT IN SOUTH ASIA" Conference was held today on 10th October, 2017 at Colombo, Sri Lanka. GrOW is a five-year, multi-funder partnership with the UK’s Department for International Development, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Canada’s International Development Research Centre.
The format of each of the three sessions of the conference were highly interactive, targeting co-creation and co-ownership of new ideas for greater policy impact. Punjab Commission on the Status of Women was represented at the conference by Chairperson PCSW Fauzia Viqar. This policy conference promoted a regional dialogue between parliamentarians, policymakers, researchers and practitioners, to identify clear and actionable evidence-based policy pathways to enable women’s economic empowerment.
