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

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  • Hidrobo, Melissa
  • Kumar, Neha
  • Palermo, Tia
  • Peterman, Amber
  • Roy, Shalini

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As 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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  • Hidrobo, Melissa & Kumar, Neha & Palermo, Tia & Peterman, Amber & Roy, Shalini, 2020. "Gender-sensitive social protection: A critical component of the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries," Issue briefs April 2020, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    • Handle: RePEc:fpr:issbrf:april2020
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    1. Yastrebov, Gordey & Maskileyson, Dina, 2022. "The effect of COVID-19 confinement and economic support measures on the mental health of older population in Europe and Israel," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 314(C).
    2. Elena CAMILLETTI & Zahrah NESBITT‐AHMED, 2022. "COVID‐19 and a “crisis of care”: A feminist analysis of public policy responses to paid and unpaid care and domestic work," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 161(2), pages 195-218, June.
    3. Valerie Mueller & Camila Páez-Bernal & Clark Gray & Karen Grépin, 2023. "The Gendered Consequences of COVID-19 for Internal Migration," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 42(4), pages 1-37, August.

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    Keywords

    WORLD; Coronavirus; coronavirus disease; Coronavirinae; gender; women; social protection; developing countries; health; Covid-19;
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