2007 Gordon Global Fellows |
 Rita Soares Pinto |
"Integrating
gender equality into Canada's international cooperation" |
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The overall objective of Rita Soares Pinto’s fellowship work has been to contribute to renewing the commitment of Canada’s international development efforts to advance women’s rights and gender equality. To this end, she (1) conducted research in Canada and in Mali, (2) initiated and co-organized the international conference Women’s rights and gender equality in Canadian cooperation: Challenges and perspectives, (3) edited the conference proceedings of the same name and (4) is the founder of “Genre en pratique”, a community of practice bringing together over ten international development organizations, based at the Association québécoise des organismes de cooperation internationale (AQOCI), and funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
For further information and documentation for each of these initiatives, please see below.
1. Documents from research in Canada and Mali
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Institutionalizing gender: from theory to practice (prepared for AQOCI) – document available in French only
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Gender equality and women's empowerment: strengthening the role of civil society in the spirit of the Paris Declaration - document available in French only
Contributed to the following documents:
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Strengthening Canada’s International Leadership in the Promotion of Gender Equality. A Civil Society Response to the Evaluation of the Implementation of CIDA’s 1999 Policy on Gender Equality
2. International conference
Women’s
Rights and Gender Equality in Canadian International Co-operation:
Challenges and Perspectives, January 19-20, 2009, Montreal, QC
3. Conference proceedings
Women’s
Rights and Gender Equality in Canadian International Co-operation: Challenges
and Perspectives.
4. Founding the community of practice
“Gender in practice”
Press release for “Gender in practice” community
– document
available in French only
Community of Practice Charter – “Gender in practice” – document available in French only
Biography
Rita Soares Pinto is Gender Equality Program Officer
at Oxfam-Québec. Previously, she worked as Program Officer for
SUCO (2002-2007), worked as an advisor and trainer on gender issues
for various organizations (among them AQOCI) and as a researcher. She
has been involved in a number of different public education and advocacy
campaigns in Canada such as "Rebuilding Afghanistan with women"
and other campaigns on corporate social responsibility (CSR) of Canadian
mining companies operating internationally. A member of AQOCI’s
Comité Québécois Femmes et Développement
(CQFD) since 2002, she has served on the coordinating committee for
several years. She has worked in several countries around the world
including Brazil, Peru, Mali, France and Canada.
Rita holds a Master’s in Development from l'Université catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve in Belgium as well as a Master's degree in Rural and Development Studies from Toulouse Le-Mirail. She speaks Portuguese, French, English, Spanish and Italian.
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