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Outreach to the Caribbean is part of the mandate of the IGDS. This includes networking with national, regional and international institutions to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women.

The IGDS Mona Unit´s Outreach programme operates at two levels: activities within the UWI and activities with organizations outside the UWI.

Institute for Gender and Development Studies Mona Unit Calendar of Events Academic Year 2009/10 1st August 2009 – 31st July 2010
Month	Date	Activity	Potential Speaker/Representative
August 2009	TBD	Orientation for New Students	IGDS STAFF
September 2009	24 5-7pm	Imani Tafari’s Book Launch ‘Blood, Bullets and Bodies’	IGDS STAFF/Imani Tafari
October 2009	28 5-7pm	Dorian Powell Award Ceremony	IGDS STAFF
November 2009	25	International Day Against Violence Against Women Activities	IGDS STAFF/Women Organisations in Jamaica
December 2009	1	World Aids Day Activities ‘Gender and HIV’	ALL
January 2010	28	Women and the Law (part of the UWI Research Day Activities)	Hon. Zailia McCalla OR ACP Novelette Grant OR Carol Samuels OR Artice Brown-Getton OR Paula Llewlyn, DPP
January 2010	28-29	UWI Research Days
February 2010
March 2010	8	International Women’s Day Celebrations	IGDS Staff
April 2010	15	Economic Empowerment: Women in the Workplace ‘Careers in Gender and Development’	Sandra Shirley and/or Sandra Glasgow and/or Minna Israel and/or Donna Duncan-Scott and/or Audrey Marks and/or Jennifer Samuda and/or Douglas Oraine and/or Neville Blythe
May 2010
June 2010	1-30	IGDS Summer School	IGDS Staff
July 2010	1-9	IGDS Summer School
July 2010	12-16	Caribbean Institute of Women in Leadership (CIWIL) Summer Institute	Various presentations including: The Hon. Faith Ragedebe, South African High Commissioner OR Syringa Marshall-Burnett

Key : Conversations with Gender Series

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