The role of social protection in responding to emergencies has rapidly grown over the last few years, with increasingly innovative and adaptive responses to large-scale emergencies. At the same time, there has also been increased attention to the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment in social protection policy and programming, as well as in emergency response programming. However, applying a gender analysis to shock-sensitive social protection has been missing, leaving a major gap in terms of informing programme design and implementation, with potentially negative effects on outcomes for women and girls.

GIZ and ODI are organising a Lab Debate to explore the following questions:

Does shock-sensitive social protection promote gender equality? 

How can equality and empowerment be better reflected in policy and programming?

This session will also discuss other important issues to add to this debate, such as: 

Where is the issue of gender equality and women/girls’ empowerment in shock-sensitive social protection debates, policy and programming? Why has this debate been missing? and How can this be addressed?

If you are joining the European Development Days, don´t miss this session! Please visit the EDD page for more information. 

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Check the material available at the library of our community and don´t miss the Shock-Responsive Social Protection Systems Research – Synthesis Report issued earlier this year! 

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