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Career Journeys: Exploring Opportunities for Youth

About the Event: Are you interested in a career in international cooperation? Join our virtual International Development Week 2024 (IDW2024) Career Panel to be taken on a career journey by young professionals who bring diverse personal experience, expertise and backgrounds to their role. The panel will explore: Panelists’ personal career paths Perspectives on the ways […]

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Gender Panel: Navigating Gender and Water Challenges Globally

About the Event: Recognizing the urgent need for concerted efforts in addressing the intersectionality of gender and water issues, our International Development Week 2024 panel on ‘Navigating Gender and Water Challenges Globally’ seeks to shed light on initiatives taken by organizations and experts from across the globe. The gendered impact of lack of safe and

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Global Reads – AKFC’s Book Club (November Edition)

Aga Khan Foundation Canada is pleased to invite you to join an enlightening edition of our book club series, Global Reads, on November 27. We are thrilled to have Naheed Nenshi, former mayor of Calgary, as our lead discussant, alongside the distinguished author of Innovation In Real Places – Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World, Dan Breznitz.

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YPH Policy Matters Series: FIAP Area 3 – Growth That Works for Everyone

OCIC’s Youth Policy Makers Hub (YPH) would like to invite you to our upcoming Policy Matter’s session on Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, with a focus on Action Area 3: Growth that works for everyone, on November 6, 2023, from 6:00pm – 7:30pm ET.  We are honoured to have Ian Thomson (he/him), Manager of Policy

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Ottawa Report Launch: Lancet Commission on Peaceful Societies through Health Equity and Gender Equality

Join AKFC, in partnership with Canada’s International Development Research Centre and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, for the Ottawa launch of the Lancet Commission’s report on “Peaceful Societies through Health Equity and Gender Equality”. Some of the report’s authors, partners, and field experts will join us to discuss the research

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Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in NbS for Adaptation

On October 19, join Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) for a hybrid event on designing and implementing NbS that advance gender equality and social inclusion (GESI). The event will include presentations, a panel discussion with experts, followed by a Q&A, and interactive discussion groups both online and

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