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Hi John,
Please join Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) for the following webinar this Friday, April 2nd:
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The COVID-19 pandemic corresponded with a rise in domestic violence cases around the world. Policymakers are looking for ways to support survivors and reduce the incidence of this form of violence. Could better equipping state institutions, including the police, to respond more consistently and effectively to cases of violence against women be a solution?
The Governance, Crime, and Conflict Initiative’s (GCCI) upcoming webinar, Combating Violence Against Women through State Institutions: Emerging Evidence and Implications for Practice, will look at evidence from randomized evaluations conducted in India to help address this question.
This is the second webinar in a series showcasing emerging results and policy lessons from the first three years of GCCI. In 2017, J-PAL’s Crime and Violence Initiative and Governance Initiative and IPA's Peace & Recovery Program
jointly launched GCCI to produce new research on effective policies to promote peace and good governance, reduce crime, and support individuals and communities recovering from conflict. Supported by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, GCCI has funded almost 100 randomized evaluations to date.
During this webinar, panelists will share evidence from two GCCI-funded randomized evaluations conducted in India that measure the effectiveness of different approaches taken by the police to tackle the issue of violence against women. They will also discuss the implications of this new research for evidence-informed decision-making in India and other contexts. A short Q&A session with the audience will follow the panel discussion.
We hope you and others in your network will be able to join us.
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Speakers
Sabrina Karim, Panelist
Sabrina Karim, Hardis Family Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor at Cornell University, will provide an introduction to the literature on police response to violence against women, framing the contribution of the two studies.
Nathan Fiala, Panelist
Nathan Fiala, Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut, will present his ongoing project Street Police Patrols and Crime Against Women in Public Space: Experimental Evidence from Urban India.
Sandip Sukhtankar, Panelist
Sandip Sukhtankar, Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, will share insights from his ongoing project Engendering Policing: Evaluating Reforms to Increase Women’s Access to Security.
Megan O'Donnell, Panelist
Megan O'Donnell, Assistant Director, Gender Program and Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Global Development, will speak to how these results can be interpreted and applied in practice.
Isabela Salgado, Moderator
Isabela Salgado, Senior Policy Associate and the Crime and Violence Initiative Manager at J-PAL, will moderate the event. |
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