Launch of GDLab, the IDB Gender and Diversity Knowledge Initiative that promotes, leads, and finances high-impact research to achieve a more inclusive and equitable society in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

0:03 - 4:17 Ana María Rodríguez, Vice President of Sector and Knowledge of the Inter-American Development Bank introduces GD Lab

4:19 - 10:01 Presentation: GDLab, Gender and Diversity Knowledge Initiative by • Eric Parrado, Chief Economist and General Manager, Research Department, IDB.

10:02-13:02 How to collaborate with GDLab
Monserrat Bustelo, Senior Economist, Gender and Diversity Division, IDB and Veronica Frisancho, Senior Economist, Research Department, IDB

13:04 Video What Remains to Be Learned?

17:47 Roundtable with panelists Moderated by: Marcelo Cabrol, Manager of the Social Sector, IDB. GUEST PANELISTS: Claudia Olivetti, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College. Rodrigo Hübner Mendes, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Instituto Rodrigo Mendes. Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Professor, Dept. of Women's and Gender Studies, and Dept. of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Rutgers University. Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researcher, GRADE.

1:02:07 Maria Caridad Araujo, Division Chief, Gender and Diversity Division, IDB

Voices from the IDB community share their thoughts on which gender and diversity topics they believe should be a priority in the region's research agenda under the GDLab initiative.

Not promoting the economic development of indigenous peoples has costs. Stephen Cornell, Faculty Director of the Institute of Native Nations at the University of Arizona and founder of the American Indian Economic Development Project at Harvard University, tells us what they are.

Cortos de Encierro, the first animation festival on disability in Latin America and the Caribbean. There we will present four short films on key tools for comprehensive care for people with disabilities, addressing fundamental issues such as autonomy, independent living, legal capacity, and the provision of integrated services.

Latin America and the Caribbean has one of the largest contrasts in the world between the number of working men and women actively seeking work. Will this panorama change with the fourth industrial revolution? Find out in our series “The future of work in Latin America and the Caribbean”.

In commemoration of Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean Women's Day, Marcela Lorenzo, President of the Xângo Group, shares what it means to her to be an Afro-descendant woman in Latin America, the challenges and prejudices she faces, and her vision of an egalitarian society.

In commemoration of Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean Women's Day, Xiomara Docando, a member of the Xango Group, shares her path to identifying herself as a young Afro-descendant, the challenges and prejudices she faces, and her vision of an egalitarian society.