March 2021 - How can social protection respond to gender intersecting inequalities?
March 2021 - How can social protection respond to gender intersecting inequalities?
Welcome to our March Newsletter!
Across the past decades, significant progress has been achieved towards overcoming gender inequality and poverty in the world. Nevertheless, women still face structural challenges that recurrently put them in situations of vulnerability and hinders their access to better life opportunities. Social protection systems and programmes play a major role in helping women and girls to overcome disparities worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected women, exacerbating inequalities and highlighting the need for gender-sensitive and adaptive social protection systems to better respond to women’s needs. In the month of the International Women´s Day, our newsletter features a selection of materials that might help understand how the current crisis can represent an opportunity for social protection systems to respond to intersecting gender inequalities that impact poverty and vulnerability.
Join the Online EventSocial Protection for Economic Inclusion: Adapting the Graduation Approach in Asia and the Pacific, on 16 March at 09:00 (GMT+8). The event, hosted by ADB and BRAC, with socialprotection.org´s support, will discuss social protection for economic inclusion. Centred in the graduation approach, the session will highlight key considerations for governments and discuss how this can be a key strategy for addressing poverty and inequality in Asia and the Pacific.
The COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker monitors policy measures enacted by governments worldwide to tackle the COVID-19 crisis, and highlights responses that have integrated a gender lens. The tracker is coordinated by UNDP with substantive leadership and technical contributions from UN Women. It includes national measures that are directly addressing women’s economic and social security, including unpaid care work, the labour market and violence against women.
The "Asia-Pacific Social Protection Online Community" is a new online community created by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), at socialprotection.org. It is the first regional platform dedicated to bringing together practitioners, experts and advocates specialised in promoting social protection in the region to discuss issues of relevance to the community.
The Social Protection Responses to COVID-19 online communityis being updated frequently, and remains a valuable tool for the social protection community to find and share resources related to responses to the pandemic. Below you will find some recent content related to this newsletter's theme:
