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East meets West SPOTLIGHT SERIES #10 with Phil Crehan
For our September SPOTLIGHT recording we invited a true expert on the topic of advancing LGBTIQ Economic Empowerment - Phil Crehan. He has a great track record in social inclusion and economic development with an LGBTIQ focus. This also brought Phil to the strategic role the World Bank is playing in improving the LGBTIQ well-being, a role that is not enough known.
The World Bank Group is the premiere economic development institution in the world not only in terms of its budget, but also in terms of intellectual capital and leverage with governments. There are five parts of the World Bank Group and in this SPOTLIGHT, we focused on the World Bank itself and how this institution can be better understood by LGBTIQ organisations, business owners and people. With this we offer you the unique opportunity to leverage this institution to combat homophobia and transphobia. It is a very new agenda for the World Bank, started about 10 years ago. But now it is one of the internal policies and many of their data analytics, their programs, and their ways of mitigating the risk of exclusion, all has to address also looking at LGBTIQ inclusion.
This is an important moment for the whole LGBTIQ community and as Phil said, "as a community, we have every right to engage with the World Bank whether it is in the Headquarters or country offices." And there is also something in addition from Phil we can share with you. He created an LGBTIQ civil society guide to help groups everywhere understand this public institution: https://mrifoundation.global/a-civil-society-guide-to-cracking-the-world-bank.
It would not be our SPOTLIGHT if at the end we did not disclose some funny moments from our recording. This time Ludo commented on the size of Belgium and, revealed how ready he was for this recording!
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For our September SPOTLIGHT recording we invited a true expert on the topic of advancing LGBTIQ Economic Empowerment - Phil Crehan. He has a great track record in social inclusion and economic development with an LGBTIQ focus. This also brought Phil to the strategic role the World Bank is playing in improving the LGBTIQ well-being, a role that is not enough known.
The World Bank Group is the premiere economic development institution in the world not only in terms of its budget, but also in terms of intellectual capital and leverage with governments. There are five parts of the World Bank Group and in this SPOTLIGHT, we focused on the World Bank itself and how this institution can be better understood by LGBTIQ organisations, business owners and people. With this we offer you the unique opportunity to leverage this institution to combat homophobia and transphobia. It is a very new agenda for the World Bank, started about 10 years ago. But now it is one of the internal policies and many of their data analytics, their programs, and their ways of mitigating the risk of exclusion, all has to address also looking at LGBTIQ inclusion.
This is an important moment for the whole LGBTIQ community and as Phil said, "as a community, we have every right to engage with the World Bank whether it is in the Headquarters or country offices." And there is also something in addition from Phil we can share with you. He created an LGBTIQ civil society guide to help groups everywhere understand this public institution: https://mrifoundation.global/a-civil-society-guide-to-cracking-the-world-bank.
It would not be our SPOTLIGHT if at the end we did not disclose some funny moments from our recording. This time Ludo commented on the size of Belgium and, revealed how ready he was for this recording!