Ms. Byanyima provided the civil society’s perspective on the post-2015 development agenda during our first panel discussion. She also stressed the need to address underlying drivers of inequality when tackling extreme poverty.
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The end of #ExtremePoverty is within our reach. We’re already half way there @USAID’s Frontiers in Development http://t.co/Tvp3xOEFt5
— Winnie Byanyima (@Winnie_Byanyima) September 18, 2014
For the people living in extreme poverty, climbing a few steps on the economic ladder can be the difference between sickness and health, life and death. But having an unobstructed path to the top, a chance to hope and dream, is the difference between surviving and living.
Climate change is reversing all efforts to fight poverty and that it is hitting the poorest hardest and putting that burden mostly on the shoulders of poor women.
The aid that is useful is aid that helps a developing country to graduate from aid.
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Biography
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International
Winnie Byanyima, a grassroots activist, human rights advocate, senior international public servant, and world recognized expert on women’s rights, is currently Executive Director of Oxfam International. Born in Uganda, Ms. Byanyima earned engineering degrees in the United Kingdom and began her career as an engineer for Uganda Airlines. She was appointed to the diplomatic service in 1989, where she represented Uganda in France and at UNESCO in Paris. She returned to Uganda in 1994 and for the next ten years she served as a member of parliament, created an all-woman parliamentary caucus, and was founding leader of the Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE), a national NGO in Uganda to champion women’s equal participation in decision-making.
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