Policy and Practice: Strengthening Public Action for Women in Brazil

Info: Purpose: Establish intellectual architecture and institutional positioning.
Welcome and acknowledgment (UN/CSW context)
Appreciation and acknowledgement of Columbia Global, Teachers College, República.org and the Women’s Leadership Network
Framing around: Connect the panel with the “Thinking + Doing” framework of CGC and point it towards the importance of institutional design, political will, implementation capacity, in the sustainable development of structural policy.

Info: Isadora Modesto – Director, República.org
Focus: Leadership pipelines, capacity building in public administration, institutional development for women in government.
Danielle Garcia – Secretary of State for Policies for Women, Sergipe
Focus: State-level economic autonomy policies, workforce programs, structural barriers to women’s income security.
Joyce Trindade – Councilwoman and Secretary for Women’s Policies and Promotion, City of Rio de Janeiro
Focus: Municipal policy design, legislative tools, entrepreneurship, and urban economic inclusion for women.

Info: Block 1 – Political Feasibility
Political viability of policies
Securing and protecting budget
Sources of institutional resistance
Role of leadership development in sustaining policy
Block 2 – Implementation & Measurement
How success is measured
Common implementation failures
What gets scaled and why
State–municipal–civil society alignment

Info: Framing question:
“What is the biggest structural barrier to women’s economic autonomy in your context?”
Accept 2–3 interventions (2 minutes max each).
Brief connection back to panel discussion.

Info: Shared forward-looking question:
“If you had to prioritize one structural policy change in the next five years to advance women’s professional and financial autonomy, what would it be?”

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