Globally, social protection programmes are gaining traction as instruments to achieve sustainable development and reduce vulnerabilities faced by households in the context of cascading and interacting shocks. Strengthening adaptive social protection systems offers the potential to mitigate the short-term impacts while contributing to building the resilience of people to future threats and crises.

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BRAC Regional Dialogue: Applying Evidence to Achieve Long-term Development and Inclusive Growth Across Africa

Before COVID-19, many countries across Africa were making significant gains in human capital, improving health and education outcomes for girls and boys and empowering women and youth to reach their full potential.

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This policy brief on gender and aging issues in Mozambique discusses themes such as poverty and living conditions, informal and formal social protection and security, health and disability, livelihoods and income as well as harmful traditional practices (HTPs) and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) among older persons in the country. The publications also indicates policy recommendations on national and local levels.

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This policy brief on gender and aging issues in Malawi discusses themes such as poverty and living conditions, informal and formal social protection and security, health and disability, livelihoods and income as well as harmful traditional practices (HTPs) and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) among older persons in the country. The publications also indicates policy recommendations on national and local levels.

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Lucinda Platt will be in conversation with Ros Altmann to discuss the gender pensions gap and why women’s pension prospects are still far worse than men’s.

This multi-faceted problem needs urgent solutions. Former Pensions Minister, Baroness Altmann, will talk about how women’s health and working life course, as well as caring roles, mean lower lifetime earnings and lower pensions, but policy also discriminates against women in numerous ways that need to be addressed.

 

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How do intersecting vulnerabilities affect the quality of youth inclusion in labour markets in Niger and their ability to move out of and remain out of poverty? How do different forms of livelihoods, education, training or migration affect youth inclusion? How do these models vary by gender, generation and area of residence?

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