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GEST Final Seminar 2023

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GEST Final Seminar 2023

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GRÓ GEST FINAL SEMINAR  19 MAY 2023

IN ROOM HT-101 IN UNIVERSITY CENTER - HÁSKÓLATORG, UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND

PROGRAMME:

8:55-9:00 • Welcoming remarks: Margrét Ann Thors, Final Assignment Coordinator and Instructor, GRÓ GEST

9:00-9:45 • SESSION 1
Empowerment, Disability, and Gender

Acom Peace Gloria
Uganda

Access and Effective Use of Media by Women with Disabilities

 

Bijal Lal
Tanzania

Sexual Autonomy Matters: Marginalization of Central Experiences for Women with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Tanzania

 

Priskila Arulpragasam
Sri Lanka

Disability, Menstrual Health and Gender: Menstrual Health and Women with Visual Impairment from Higher Educational Institutions in Colombo

 

COFFEE BREAK: 10 minutes

9:55-10:55 • SESSION 2
Justice, Peace, and Public Health

Orlando Javon Pearce
Jamaica

The Impact of Culture (Music and Legacy Legislation) on the Access to Public Healthcare Services for the LGBTQIA+ Community in Jamaica: Research Proposal

 

Sana Salim Lokhandwala
Pakistan

Period Fellowship: Towards Menstrual Justice in Pakistan

 

Wevyn Helen Awiti Muganda
Kenya

Pride (Or Not) in Peace Processes: Queer Youth Marginalisation, Resistance and Participation in Peacebuilding in Kenya

 

Feven Aberham Hailu
Ethiopia

Responding to Gender-Based Violence Victim Women and Girls: Quest for One Stop Service Center in Hawassa, Ethiopia


COFFEE BREAK: 10 minutes

11:05-12:05 • SESSION 3
Activism, Politics, and Movements

Akhil Neelam
India

Political Parties and Women's Representation in India and Iceland: A Comparative Study

 

Bleona Kurteshi
Kosovo

Public Representation of Wartime Sexual Violence in Kosova: “Memoriali Heroinat” (The Heroines Memorial) as a Case Study

 

Nirmala Maharjan
Nepal

Women in Nepal: The Gender Landscape and its Evolution—2006-2016

 

Yeimama Kallon
Sierra Leone

Women in Political Participation: The Case of Sierra Leone


LUNCH BREAK: 35 minutes

12:40-13:40 • SESSION 4
Unlearning, Masculinities, and Violence

Saahithiyanan Ganeshanathan
Sri Lanka

Breaking the Cycle: Unlearning Toxic Masculinity to End Gender-Based Violence

Winifred Ikilai
Uganda

“Your ego is choking me, your actions are bruising me. Listen!”: Promoting Positive Masculinities among Boys and Men in Kitgum, Kumi, and Kampala Districts, Uganda

 

Etumboh Nguh Cyril
Cameroon

Working with Men and Boys to Strengthen Violence Against Women Prevention and Response in Cameroon

 

Edgar Manuel Bernardo
Mozambique

Engagement of Military and Humanitarian Actors in the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence against IDPs in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique


COFFEE BREAK: 10 minutes

13:50-14:50 • SESSION 5
Adaptation, Sex, and Sustenance

Marleen Atieno Onyango
Kenya

Economic Empowerment for Women in Mfangano Island, Kenya: Towards Addressing the “Sex for Fish” Phenomenon

 

Madalitso Juwayeyi
Malawi

HIV Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Scaling up HIV Prevention in "Sugar Daddy or Blesser" Transactional Sex Relationships Among University Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Blantyre City

 

Lirani Hannah Kaluwa Katutu
Malawi

Adaptive Capacity: A Dream for the Female-Headed Household in Mulanje District, Malawi

 

Nana Kwasi Barning Ackah
Ghana

Gender and Climate Change: Perceptions and Adaptation Practices of Smallholder Farmers in Ghana: A Case Study in Shai Osudoku District


COFFEE BREAK: 10 minutes

15:00-16:00 • SESSION 6
Transformation, Education, and Policies

Nomore Junior Mutsengi
Zimbabwe

Building Safe Communities for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Zimbabwe: A School-Centered Gender Norms Transformative Approach

 

Suju Poon
Nepal

Leading (In)visible Spaces: Strengthening the Leadership Skills of Young Women in Rural Communities of Nepal

 

Swechhya Rajbhandary
Nepal

Nepali Campus (In)Action Against Sexual Harassment: Developing Policies and Mechanisms to Prevent Sexual Harassment in Nepali Higher Education Institutes

 

Aditi Rindani
India

Claiming Sonic Space through a Podcast on Gender: Genderly Speaking


16:00-16:05 • Closing remarks: Prof. Irma Erlingsdóttir, Director GRÓ GEST