Gender-sensitive social protection: A critical component of the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries

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dc.creatorHidrobo, Melissa
dc.creatorKumar, Neha
dc.creatorPalermo, Tia
dc.creatorPeterman, Amber
dc.creatorRoy, Shalini
dc.date2020-04-01
dc.date2024-05-22T12:15:20Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:15:20Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:27:08Z
dc.descriptionAs social protection programs and systems adapt to mitigate against the COVID-19 crisis, gender considerations are likely to be overlooked in an urgent effort to save lives and provide critical economic support. Yet, past research and learning indicates that small adaptations to make program design and implementation more gender-sensitive may result in overall and equality-related gains. We summarize some of these considerations for LMICs across five areas: 1) Adapting existing schemes and social protection modality choice, 2) targeting, 3) benefit level and frequency, 4) delivery mechanisms and operational features, and 5) complementary programming. It is our hope that COVID-19 will be an opportunity to address, and not exacerbate, pre-existing gender inequalities and lay the groundwork for more gender-sensitive social protection programming in LMICs beyond the crisis, building toward the wellbeing of societies as a whole.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143580
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/104793
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00791
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lky002
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.102410
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293649_10
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133762_22
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133551
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceHidrobo, Melissa; Kumar, Neha; Palermo, Tia; Peterman, Amber; and Roy, Shalini. 2020. Gender-sensitive social protection: A critical component of the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries. IFPRI Issue Brief April 2020. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293793.
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectcovid-19
dc.subjecthealth
dc.subjectsocial protection
dc.subjectdeveloping countries
dc.subjectwomen
dc.titleGender-sensitive social protection: A critical component of the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries
dc.typeBrief

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