Assessing the Damage
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At the onset of the Coronavirus
(COVID-19) pandemic, there was global concern about the
negative indirect impacts the crisis would have on girls and
women and their human capital. Two years into the crisis,
this brief summarizes the evidence to date on how the
prediction of a shadow crisis has played out in Sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA).The brief is intended as a call to action for
policymakers, since available research sets off multiple
alarm bells. It also proposes urgent policy responses.
Evidence to date confirms that the COVID-19 crisis has had
profound negative impacts on the education, health,
employment and empowerment of girls and women including in
SSA. Available data is still limited, but what is known to
date suggests that we are seeing the tip of an iceberg. Many
impacts will have long term repercussions for girls’ and
women’s human capital. Decision makers are at a pivotal
moment to invest now in women and girls, to neutralize
immediate but also prolonged costs to individuals, societies
and economies.
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CORONAVIRUS IMPACT ON WOMEN, COVID-19 IMPACT ON WOMEN, PANDEMIC IMPACT ON WOMEN, HUMAN CAPITAL OF GIRLS AND WOMEN, INDIRECT IMPACT OF COVID-19, INDIRECT IMPACT OF PANDEMIC ON WOMEN, INVESTMENT IN GIRLS, INVESTMENT IN WOMEN, EMPOWERMENT OF GIRLS AND WOMEN, AFRICA HUMAN CAPITAL PROJECT, WOMEN'S RESILIENCE