Gender-responsive social protection contributes to reducing gender inequality and boosting socio-economic outcomes for women and girls. Gender-smart design of social protection policies, systems, and initiatives can address multiple sources of inequality that hinder the prospects and opportunities for women and girls.
Rapid Social Response Program (RSR)
Gender and Social Protection
WORLD BANK GENDER THEMATIC POLICY NOTE SERIES: EVIDENCE & PRACTICE NOTE
Accelerating Gender Equality Through Social Protection
This note presents evidence and operational experience on how social protection can boost gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment outcomes and discusses challenges that need to be addressed to maximize the impact of social protection interventions at scale.
Gender and Social Protection Resources
General
General
- Gender and Safety Nets: Priorities for Building Back Better (Alessandra Heinemann and Kathleen Beegle)
- Knowledge Matters: The Journey Towards Addressing Gender Equality (Concern Worldwide)
- How to Design Gender-Sensitive Social Protection Systems (UNESCAP)
Gender and Care
- Better Jobs and Brighter Futures: Investing in Childcare to Build Human Capital (Amanda E. Devercelli and Frances Beaton-Day)
- Addressing Childcare in the World Bank Portfolio: Approaches, Experiences, and Lessons Learned (Sarah Haddock, Amna Raza, Giacomo Palmisano)
- Making it Work for Womn: What SPJ Projects are Doing in the Care Space (Lindsay Mossman)
- Investing in Childcare for Women's Economic Empowerment (Aletheia Donald, Francisco Campos, Julia Vaillant, and Maria Emilia Cucagna)
- Menstrual Health and Hygiene Resource Package: Tools and Resources for Task Teams (World Bank Water Global Practi
- WASH United: Advocacy and Education on Menstrual Health and Human Rights
- Resilience and Productivity: Keys to a Better Future for Urban Informal Sector Workers in Côte d’Ivoire
- Affordable Childcare: A Needs Assessment of Low-income Mothers and Childcare Providers in Urban Bangladesh (Fahmina Rahman Dutta; Kamra, Anmol)
- Delivering Affordable, Quality Childcare in Bangladesh: Policy Lessons from a Global Review (Fahmina Rahman; Kamra,Anmol)
- Making it Work for Women: What SPJ Projects are doing in the Care Space
- Public Report: Recommendations for promoting the income generation in caregiver women in Bogotá
Gender and Climate Change
- Gender Dimensions of Disaster Risk and Resilience (World Bank GFDRR)
- Placing Gender Equality at the Center of Climate Action (Franziska Deininger, Andrea Woodhouse, Anne T. Kuriakose, Ana Gren, Sundas Liaqat)
- Promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in shock-sensitive social protection (ODI: Rebecca Holmes)
- Integrating a Gender Lens in Social Protection Programs in Tonga
- Building a Future for Women in South Asia’s Plastics Waste Management
Women's Economic Empowerment
- Adapting Skills Training to Address Constraints to Women's Participation (World Bank Jobs Group)
- Ultra-Poor Graduation Handbook (BRAC/World Vision)
- Findings & Recommendation: Mapping & Barriers to Women’s Economic Empowerment
- Evaluating Tanzania's Productive Social Safety Net: Findings from the Midline Survey
- Breaking Barriers to Women's Economic Inclusion in St Lucia
- Breaking Barriers to Women's Economic Inclusion in Grenada
- Assessment of current SP targeting mechanism and Proposal to Strengthen Inclusion and Resilience
- Resilience and Productivity: Keys to a Better Future for Urban Informal Sector Workers in Côte d’Ivoire
- Empowering Women And Girls Through Social Protection
- Four Indicators for Assessing Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment in Operations.
- Women’s Empowerment in Practice: Lessons from the Ghana Productive Safety Nets Project.
- How Did Urban Household Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa Fare during COVID-19? Evidence from High-Frequency Phone Surveys
- Study of Opportunities for Women's Productive Inclusion in Guinea
- Supporting the Urban Informal in Africa - An Options Paper for SPJ
- A labor market assessment report on Bhutan
Social Norms
- Program H: A Review of the Evidence (Equimundo)
- Program H: Working with Young Men Series (Equimundo)
- Journeys of Transformation: A Training Manual for Engaging Men as Allies in Women’s Economic Empowerment (CARE and Equimundo)
- Menstrual Health and Hygiene Resource Package: Tools and Resources for Task Teams (World Bank Water Global Practice)
- WASH United: Advocacy and Education on Menstrual Health and Human Rights
Gender-based Violence
- Safety First: Leveraging safety nets to prevent gender-based violence
- Voices from the South: Contributing to the production of evidence on VAW and VAC (SVRI)
- Safety for all: Gender-Based Violence and Social Safety Nets in Zambia
- Enhanced GBV Prevention, Risk Mitigation and Response through Social Safety Nets in South Sudan Report on Experience of Existing Helpline
- A Guide to Support Survivors of Gender-Based Violence in Social Safety Net Programmes
- Framework of A National GBV Helpline in South Sudan
- How to Prevent, Mitigate and Respond to GBV through Social Protection
- Report of qualitative survey on GBV and recommendations for Lisungi
- Integrating Intimate Partner Violence Prevention into Social Safety Net Programs: Lessons from Cameroon Social Safety Net Project
- Safety First - How to leverage safety nets to prevent GBV
Gender and FCV
- Gender Dimensions of Disaster Risk and Resilience (World Bank GFDRR)
- Promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in shock-sensitive social protection
Gender and Human Capital
- Gender and Safety Nets: Priorities for Building Back Better (Alessandra Heinemann and Kathleen Beegle)
- Knowledge Matters: The Journey Towards Addressing Gender Equality (Concern Worldwide)
- How to Design Gender-Sensitive Social Protection Systems (UNESCAP)
- Zimbabwe: Piloting Social Protection and WASH Interventions to Keep Adolescent Girls in School - Process Evaluation
Recent Publications
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RSR Adaptive and Dynamic Social Protection Umbrella Program
Gender Window Review Report 2024
The objective of this report is to present a comprehensive review of the activities funded under the RSR-ADSP Gender Window.Read More -
Gender Window Review Report 2024
Insights and Lessons from Women’s Economic Empowerment Interventions
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Gender Window Review Report 2024
Insights and Lessons from Interventions in Settings of Fragility, Conflict, and Violence
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Gender Window Review Report 2024
Insights and Lessons from Gender-Based Violence Interventions
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