Symposium on Gender Gaps in National Transfer Accounts and National Time Transfer Accounts

Researchers, representatives from international organizations, members of the government of Colombia, media, students, and other interested parties met in Bogotá, Colombia on February 28, 2018 to share results from NTA and CWW researchers and learn about the challenges and concerns of various stakeholders around issues of inequality and transfers of money and time.

The event was organized by the CWW Colombia team including Dr. B. Piedad Urdinola, of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Bogotá, and Dr. Jorge A. Tovar of the Universidad de los Andes-Bogotá, and featured their research on Colombia as well as cross-country comparative work from other CWW researchers, and personnel of the United Nations, and of Colombian universities and government representatives.

The event was sponsored by the United Nations Population Fund, the Departamento Nacional de Planeación of Colombia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad los Andes, National Transfers Accounts, and Counting Women’s Work.

Click the links below to access video of the presentation and discussions:

• Introductions and Background

• Speakers

Presentation slides for each speaker can be accessed below:

• Alejandra Corchuelo (download)

• Paulo Saad (download)

• Pablo Salazar (download)

• Gretchen Donehower (download)

• B. Piedad Urdinola (download)

• Marisa Bucheli (download)

• Meritxell Sole Juves (download)

Colombia CWW Results in "The Economics of Caring and Public Policy"

Piedad Urdinola discussed results from the Colombia CWW research at a seminar entitled "The economics of caring and public policy" in Bogotá on 16 November 2016. In support of many of the ideas discussed in the seminar, Piedad provided evidence of the large part that caring plays in the lives of ordinary people and how, in the Colombian context, it is linked with gender differences in the educational system and labour market segregation.

The main goal of the seminar was to gather information from experts, policy makers and academics to develop a plan for a national policy on caring.

The programme for the event can be downloaded here.

Symposium on valuing time use in Colombia

B. Piedad Urdinola and Jorge Tovar, co-directors of the National Time Transfer Accounts/Counting Women's Work research for Colombia, discussed results from the Colombian research. They were joined by other CWW personnel and other regional experts. The seminar took place from 8am to 1pm on June 1, 2016, at Auditorio Juan Herkrath Muller-Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Bogotá.

 The agenda can be downloaded here.

The video recording of the event can be viewed here.

Speakers for the event were:

• Gretchen Donehower, U.C. Berkeley (presentation)

• Edgar Marcillo, Departamento Nacional de Planeación-DNP (presentation)

• Pamela Jiménez Fontana, Centro Centroamericano de Población/Programa Estado de la Nación (presentation)

• B. Piedad Urdinola, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Bogotá (presentation)

• Estela Rivero, Investigación en Salud y Demografía-INSAD (presentation)

• Néstor González, Departamento Nacional de Planeación-DNP

• Iván Piraquive, Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística-DANE (presentation)

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The event flyers can be downloaded here (detailed) or here (overview).

Public Policy Focus on Women's Unpaid Care Work in Costa Rica

Pamela Jiménez-Fontana, CWW's Costa Rica team leader, and Piedad Urdinola, Colombia CWW team leader, participated in a seminar entitled "Knowledge Management for Public Policy Based on Evidence: Giving Visibility to the Unremunerated Work of Women", hosted by the Central American Population Center (Centro Centroamericano de Población), the National Women's Institute (Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres) and the State of the Nation Programme (Programa Estado de la Nación). The event took place in San José, Costa Rica, on March 10, 2016.