Gender

Exploring policy measures to address the disempowering effects of social assistance schemes on women

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Submitted by Juan Gonzalo Jaramillo Mejia
on Thu, 07/02/2019 - 10:19
Women have traditionally been kept at the forefront of the fight against poverty. Social assistance schemes (SAS) have predominantly targeted women as recipient of benefits, aiming to contribute to gender equality by increasing their empowerment. However, a growing body of research suggests these schemes may have contradictory and collateral disempowering effects, due to an increase in women’s time poverty and the social expectations around the fulfilment of programmes’ conditionalities along with a confinement to traditional caregiving roles. These issues are worsened by cases of discrimination and abuse against women by implementing agents. There is thus an urgent need for: A stronger engagement of men to strategically target structural gender imbalances, and adopting awareness-raising...Read more

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Financing gender-responsive social protection

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Submitted by Ana Carolina Romano
on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 19:20
The ‘Financing gender-responsive social protection’ webinar took place on 6 June 2019. The webinar brought together leading experts to discuss the implications for women’s outcomes and gender equality of: (1) The options for securing adequate levels of social protection financing – both contributory and non-contributory; (2) alternative social protection financing instruments; and (3) related challenges, such as existing gender inequalities in the world of work and the explicit/implicit gender bias in existing tax and spending policies. The event was organised by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the UK Department for International Deployment (DFID), and it is part of the webinar series ‘ Social Protection and Gender Equality...Read more

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Realising rights: How can social protection advance gender equality?

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Submitted by Roberta Brito
on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 19:12
The ‘Realising rights: how can social protection advance gender equality?’ webinar took place on 19 February 2019. It aimed to advance the discussion on how social protection can contribute to gender equality. The panellists discussed the lessons learned on what works in social protection policies and systems in reducing gender inequality; which policy features may inadvertently contribute to reinforcing the problem; the key challenges to implementing gender-responsive social protection policies; and how this agenda can be accelerated moving forward. The event is the first in the new Social protection and Gender Equality Webinar Series , organised by the Overseas Development Institute ( ODI ) and the UK’s Department for International Development ( DFID ), co-hosted by the Gender...Read more

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The seminar will provide participants with an overview of EU gender equality legislation as interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union in its large case law on this topic.

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Expanding access to good practices on Elimination of Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV and Syphilis (EMTCT) through South-South Cooperation

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Submitted by Sara Söderstjerna
on Fri, 03/05/2019 - 09:50
Prachatai Thailand, UNICEF, EMTCT 02, 2014.
The webinar on ‘Expanding access to good practices on Elimination of Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV and syphilis (EMTCT) through South-South Cooperation (SSC)’ took place on 31 of January 2019. The aim of this webinar was to share examples of successful practices and lessons learned by countries working towards achieving EMTCT validation, and to discuss how South-South Cooperation can be used as a vehicle towards global validation by means of knowledge exchange and sharing of best practices. The event was organised by The Community of Practice on South-South Cooperation for Children (CoP-SSC4C) , a joint initiative by UNICEF , UNOSSC and IPC-IG . The presenters in this webinar were Dr. Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha (UNICEF HIV/AIDS, NYHQ), Dr. Sarawut Boonsuk...Read more

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During the course of the Initiative, EU-SPS worked to-wards bringing social protection and gender equality agendas together. This work intensified during the last year 2018-19 when EU-SPS/Finland agreed to support UN-Women’s efforts in introducing social protection as one of the key tools to promote gender equality and to empower women, globally and particularly in Africa.

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The politics of gender-responsive social protection

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Submitted by Rebecca Holmes
on Mon, 08/04/2019 - 14:12
The ‘politics of gender-responsive social protection’ webinar took place on 7 March 2019. The event discussed the transformative aspects of gender responsive social protection systems, which play a critical role in improving women’s and girl’s lives by addressing lifecycle risks and transitions, recognising unpaid care and domestic work, increasing access to services and infrastructure, and promoting women’s and girl’s voice and agency. Further, the webinar explored the political economy drivers and barriers to promoting gender-responsive social protection, given that the extent to which social protection is gender-responsive is as much a political decision as a technical one. The webinar was made possible by the joint efforts of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) , and the UK...Read more

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Q&A: The politics of gender responsive social protection

Submitted by Ashleigh Slingsby on Mon, 08/04/2019 - 13:55
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Gender

This CSW63 side event hosted by UN Women, Sida and the Prime Minister's Office (Tanzania) explored how cash transfers can help reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Featuring research from the Cash Transfer and Intimate Partner Violence Research Collaborative, the Prevention Collaborative, IFPRI, the Transfer Project, UNICEF Innocenti, and the International Rescue Committee.

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Inequality reduction through social protection: Webinar in preparation of the UN Commission for Social Development

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Submitted by Timo Voipio
on Thu, 14/03/2019 - 11:35
The ‘Inequality Reduction Through Social Protection - Webinar in preparation of the UN Commission for Social Development’ webinar took place on 29 January 2019. The webinar aimed to introduce and discuss the UN Secretary General’s reports to the ECOSOC Commissions Commission for Social Development (CSocD) and the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), entitled ‘ Addressing inequalities and challenges to social inclusion through fiscal, wage and social protection policies’ and ‘ Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls ’. The webinar was organised by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) , Finland’s National Institute for Health and Welfare , and the EU...Read more

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