Empowering Women and Girls in Fragile Settings

Fragility does not impact each person equally. Even when experiences seem similar across genders, women and girls face unique challenges that can interact and compound in ways we may not fully understand. To disentangle where we stand, what we know, and how we should move forward, Fragile Lives 2025 is putting a special emphasis on empowering women and girls. This session will dive into the status quo of sexual violence in conflict, present novel research insights on how we can improve the lives and livelihoods of women and girls, and seek to understand what policies and programming we know to be effective.

Featured Speakers

Francisca Castro

Postdoctoral Researcher, ISDC - International Security and Development Center

Sudhanshu Handa

Professor, Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel hill

Julia Koch de Biolley

Head of Task Force for Equality, European External Action Service (EEAS)

Sheree Kullenberg

Director - Design, Innovation and Learning, International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Natalia Winder Rossi

UNICEF Representative to the Arab Republic of Egypt

Hosted by

Tilman Brück

Professor of Development Economics and Food Security, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Team Leader, Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ)

Director, ISDC - International Security and Development Center