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Agriculture, Aid Effectiveness, Climate Change, Environment, Food Security, Gender Equality, Gender Integration, Health / Health Systems, Monitoring and Evaluation, Women and girls
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As head of the Strategic Impact Team, Dr. Suzanne Kindervatter oversees InterAction’s work on priority international development issues, gender integration and women’s empowerment, and documenting InterAction member field activities and technical experience from the field. Over the past 25 years, she has worked in 20 countries, in the areas of adult and nonformal education, microenterprise development, organizational capacity building, evaluation, and gender and development.
Previous to joining InterAction in 1994, Dr. Kindervatter served as Director of the Better Life Options for Girls and Young Women Program at the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), where she managed a 15-country initiative to expand rights and opportunities for adolescent girls, and as Asia Region and Technical Services Director of OEF International. She is widely recognized as a pioneer in developing participatory training materials and guides to women in development, evaluation, and other areas.
She has served on the boards of the Association of Women in Development, Women Thrive Worldwide, US Women Connect, and since 2003 has been a member of the World Bank’s External Gender Consultative Group.
She holds a Master’s degree in Educational Foundations/Asian Studies from the East West Center/University of Hawaii (1971) and an Ed.D. in International Education from the University of Massachusetts (1978).
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July 12, 2011
By Suzanne Kindervatter
TV images and twitter feeds from the Arab Spring heralded the new reality of global demographics. Unprecedented numbers of youth—more than 1.5 billion 14-25 year-olds worldwide—are an important development resource for their own nations, and a pressing challenge for the international community. Half of the world’s population is under the age of 25, with 85% of these...
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Working Groups are a central part of the way InterAction supports and aids its members. Working Groups are first and foremost a place for member agencies to share information that is important to them in several ways:
- by providing a way for member organizations to share information about field-based issues, concerns, and topics;
- by serving as a place for members to receive training and to share best practices with each other; and
- by offering a space for members to develop new products and materials on a given topic.
Working Groups are member driven and supported by InterAction staff (with the exception of a few non-staffed working groups). Members identify an interest, issue area, or need around which they feel their collective voices will clarify or strengthen responses. Depending on the number of member organizations interested, a meeting or consultation is planned to explore the topic and allow members to share their issues and concerns. Such consultations or exploratory meetings may lead to the formation of an on-going Working Group.
InterAction's current working groups are described below. For more information on a specific working group, contact the group's staff contact.
| Group | Description | Staff Contact |
|---|---|---|
| HPPC--SYRIA |
this is a working for Syria |
Abby Bruell |
| SIT--Transparency |
SIT--ransparency |
Laia Grino |
| Shelter and Settlements Working Group |
InterAction Shelter And Settlements Working Group |
Mohamed Hilmi |
| Allen-test-group |
this is a test group |
Allen Abtahi |
| InterAction Business Council |
Promoting and leveraging corporate and NGO partnerships for sustainable and inclusive international development and economic growth. |
Luisa Córdoba |
| HPPC--Humanitarian Policy and Partnerships Working Group |
HPPC--Humanitarian Policy and Partnerships Working Group |
Abby Bruell |
| SIT--Aid Effectiveness-Members |
SIT--Aid Effectiveness-Members |
Kimberly Darter |
| HPPC--Horn of Africa |
HPPC--Horn of Africa |
Lucy de los Reyes |