The Asia Foundation’s Covid-19 & The New Normal for Women in the Economy in Pakistan report assesses Covid-19 pandemic’s socioeconomic impact on women. The regional research includes country-specific reports that give granular insights on the disproportionate impact on women, which contribute to a South Asia region-wide report that presents common impacts on women across South Asia and policy recommendations to enhance government responses to strengthen support for women working in the informal economy and in the services sector.
Save the Children and UNICEF are hosting an APFSD side event to look at the role of child-sensitive social protection in the sustainable and resilient recovery from Covid-19. This event will facilitate a multi-stakeholder exchange including children around the role of child-sensitive social protection (CSSP) in the sustainable and resilient recovery from COVID-19, and its crucial role in accelerating progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.
The information booklet provides an overview of WFP’s life-saving interventions in Cox’s Bazar. It includes individual factsheets on each programme and sector, and is updated every quarter.
This Policy Innovation Case Study (PICS) discusses how barriers to accessing social protection can be overcome using the ‘right to information’. It draws on the experiences of activists in India who mobilised around a ‘right to information act’ to contest the denial of social protection to formally- eligible poor and vulnerable applicants. The PICS analyses how the Indian experience could inform efforts to improve access to social protection in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures?
This report presents the methodology and results of a microsimulation based on a partial equilibrium modelling framework using nationally representative household-level data for Bangladesh. The findings include an estimate of the potential impact of COVID-19 on poverty in the country based on a model that assumes heterogeneity of impact across individuals and households depending on the type and sector of employment. Moreover, the model is used to assess the effectiveness, coverage, and adequacy of the social protection response to COVID-19.
