Supporting Women Throughout the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Emergency Response and Economic Recovery

Evidence from the Africa gender innovation lab on mechanisms that can help protect the lives and livelihoods of women and girls

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
1 May 2020
Document Type:
Briefing
Theme:
Economic Growth, Health, Social Change
Authors:
World Bank

Abstract

This brief highlight evidence from the Africa gender innovation lab and other promising research on mechanisms that can help protect the lives and livelihoods of women and girls - at the household level, in firms and farms, and during adolescence - in the context of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.

This work is part of the Closing the Gender Gap in Africa: evaluating new policies and programmes for women’s economic empowerment programme

Citation

World Bank. 2020. Supporting Women Throughout the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Emergency Response and Economic Recovery. World Bank, Washington, DC.

Supporting Women Throughout the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Emergency Response and Economic Recovery

Published 1 May 2020
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