WIDE+ - Women in Development Europe+

ActionAid (WIDE+ member) in collaboration with other associations, organizes a short film screening on the 29th October for the International Day of care and support, followed by a round table of women working or defending care work. This will be entirely in Spanish.

We are pleased to introduce Ana Isabel García Quesada, sociologist and social communicator, as a speaker for our upcoming webinar. ⏰10:00 - 11:30 CST 📅4 November 2026 📝Register here: buff.ly/7HvuoBv

Ana Isabel participates in a personal capacity as the study’s author and an independent expert. The Delegation of the EU has confirmed that it has no objection to her presenting the study’s main findings and recommendations in this capacity. She does not speak on behalf of the EU or GGF4CA.

🎙️ Meet our speaker: Berna van Wendel de Joode (she/her), PhD, from Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, Professor at IRET and Principal Investigator of the Infants’ Environmental Health (ISA) study 🎙️ 📅29 October, 2026 🕛10-11:30 CST 🌐In Spanish and English 📝Register here: buff.ly/1aFsBji

Save the date for our upcoming webinar, “Gender Gaps in Central America: Women’s Participation in Business and the Economy.” ⏰10:00 - 11:30 CST 📅4 November 2026 🌐Spanish and English 📝Register here: buff.ly/7HvuoBv

She participates in a personal capacity as the study’s author and an independent expert. The Delegation of the EU has confirmed that it has no objection to her presenting the study’s main findings and recommendations in this capacity. She does not speak on behalf of the EU or GGF4CA

Gender and Development Network (WIDE+ member) in collaboration with ActionAid UK have released a new report: Gender Equality and the Global Debt Crisis.

Save the date for our upcoming webinar, “Pesticides, Human Health and Gender: Lessons from Research in Costa Rica” as part of WIDE+ Gender and Trade Working Group. ⏰17:00–18:30 CEST | 10:00–11:30 Costa Rica 📅29th of October 2026 📍On Zoom 🌐Spanish and English 📝Register here: buff.ly/1aFsBji

Our last speaker: Leyla El Khamlichi (she/her), Senior data scientist, UWV 🎙️ 📅Workshop Date: 15 October, 2026 🕛Time: 10:00 - 12:00 CET 📝 Register here: buff.ly/PirrzwX #wideplus #womensrights #humansrights #transparentAI #AI

Our fourth speaker: Laura Engels (she/her), researcher at University of Hasselt and co-author for the policy brief ‘Recruitment and selection in the age of AI’ 🎙️ 📅Workshop Date: 15 October, 2026 🕛Time: 10:00 - 12:00 CET 📝 Register here: buff.ly/PirrzwX

Our third speaker for our AiRise workshop: Leonie Hogervorst (she/her) Policy Officer Gender and Work, Institute for the Equality of Women and Men, Belgium 🎙️ 📅Workshop Date: 15 October, 2026 🕛Time: 10:00 - 12:00 CET 📝 Register here: buff.ly/PirrzwX

Our second speaker for our AiRise workshop: Gea Meijers (she/her), General Coordinator at WIDE+ 🎙️ 📅Workshop Date: 15 October, 2026 🕛Time: 10:00 - 12:00 CET 📝 Register here: buff.ly/PirrzwX

Our first speaker: Paksy Plackis-Cheng (she/her), researcher & advisor on AI high risk systems and founder of impactmania🎙️ 📅Workshop Date: 15 October, 2026 🕛10:00 - 12:00 CET 📝Register here: buff.ly/PirrzwX ---

Do you want to be inspired to think in new ways to match people with jobs, learning opportunities, and career pathways? New research outcomes, practices, and a real-world experiment will be discussed in this online workshop around AI-assisted hiring processes.

➡️ Group work in break out rooms in French, English and Dutch. 📌 This webinar is relevant for anyone involved in recruitment or human resource management. There will be two webinars upcoming: one tailored to policy-makers and another to jobseekers and Civil Society.

Do you want to be inspired to think in new ways to match people with jobs, learning opportunities, and career pathways? New research outcomes, practices, and a real-world experiment will be discussed in this online workshop around AI-assisted hiring processes.

➡️ Discussing an innovative experiment with designing and detecting transferable skills through AI to enable talent professionals in making more and better career-people matches.

Do you want to be inspired to think in new ways to match people with jobs, learning opportunities, and career pathways? New research outcomes, practices, and a real-world experiment will be discussed in this online workshop around AI-assisted hiring processes.

The workshop will offer you ideas and information to connect talent from different backgrounds to jobs. Join us for a dynamic two-hour session where we’ll go beyond standard hiring practices in Europe!

For 2.5 years, the WE-EMPOWER project brought together organisations across Europe to support migrant women and gender non-conforming people, to claim their space and voice in civic and democratic life. buff.ly/G8DjEcl #WEEMPOWER #MigrantWomen #DemocraticParticipation #GenderEquality #Inclusion

Join us for an energetic, interactive session exploring what’s emerging at the intersection of AI, hiring, talent mobility, and people development. 📅15 October, 2026 🕛10:00 - 12:00 CET 📌 Online Interactive Session For more information: paksy@impactmania.com

DAY 4 IN BUCHAREST 🇷🇴 For our last day, we have continued reflecting on our strategy for the feminist forum #EFF2027 and our practises for the future as a network and as an organisation 💭 Thank you to everyone who managed to join us at some point and hope these 4 days were rich, insightful and 1/3

full of hope for the future. Thank you for @imago.mundi for hosting the event and thank you to all the organisers for creating this event and making it possible. 2/3