Suzanne Kindervatter

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Title: 
Vice President
Department: 
Strategic Impact

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). 

The Post-2015 Development Agenda: 10 Things to Celebrate, and Get Behind, in the High-Level Panel Report

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Submitted by Suzanne Kindervatter on Mon, 06/10/2013 - 8:58am

The UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel has released its much anticipated report on the post-2015 agenda, and initial reactions from civil society generally range from pleasant surprise to “wow.” When the panel was appointed last July, with three heads of state as co-chairs, civil society organizations were skeptical that such a high-level group could produce the “bold, yet practical” framework mandated by the secretary general.

US Involvement Key to Ending Extreme Poverty Post 2015

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Submitted by Suzanne Kindervatter on Wed, 04/24/2013 - 10:02am

What do U.S. President Barack Obama, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, and many civil society groups around the globe have in common?  A shared conviction that extreme poverty can be ended — within two decades.

Turning that dream into a reality for the 1.4 billion people still living on less than $1.25 a day requires the engagement of the U.S. development community as well as the leadership of the U.S. government in the post-2015 process.