Gender in Development Policy Loans – Experience from Pernambuco , Brazil

1. GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE Gender in Development Policy Loans – Experience from Pernambuco, Brazil Presenter Indu John-Abraham is an Operations Officer in the Poverty Reduction and Gender Unit of the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank. She works on both operational and analytical work, principally in the areas of monitoring and evaluation and statistical capacity building. Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked overseas with Catholic Relief Services in Armenia and the Dominican Republic focusing on the development and management of civic participation and education programs.  She has authored several publications and policy notes on social accountability and social programs for the poor. She holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.  Luís Felipe López-Calvais lead economist at the Poverty, Equity and Gender Unit, PREM-LAC. He has previously worked at UNDP and has held academic positions in Mexico. His research interests are poverty and inequality, labor, institutional and development economics. Discussants: Lawrence Boutonis a senior economist in the country economics unit of OPCS. Prior to joining OPCS he worked as a Country Economist in the ECA region. He has wide experience in preparing a number of Development Policy Operations and Structural Adjustment Credits. Maria Beatriz Orlando is Senior Economist and Gender Coordinator for the Latin American and Caribbean Region. She is a Development Economist focusing on gender, labor market, and poverty issues in Latin America.  She is currently working on gender mainstreaming in Bank products and projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Before joining the World Bank, she worked as Research Associate at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC with the United Nations Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality. She was a Professor at Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (Caracas, Venezuela), where she authored several studies about poverty and the informal sector and the gender wage gap in Venezuela.