Guidelines on Gender Responsive Responses to COVID-19

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

It is important that the AU considers how COVID-19 will disproportionately affect women including young women and girls, particularly the vulnerable and those living in crises and conflict affected countries and ensure a gendered perspective in the analysis and responses to the pandemic. This will enable the designing and implementation of programmes and strategies, as well as the establishment of monitoring and reporting systems that are appropriate on differential preventive measures. Applying a gendered lens implies, among others, questioning how socially-constructed roles and identities may affect vulnerability to and experiences of COVID-19. A gendered lens to COVID-19 responses will improve outcomes for not only women, but all people affected by the virus and contribute to saving lives in Africa.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

Activity URL

https://au.int/en/documents/20200603/au-guidelines-gender-responsive-responses-covid-19

Government Affiliation

Unknown

Years

2020 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

N/A

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Vocational training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Food/water security
  • Gender equality
  • Nutrition
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Community leaders, Girls (both in school and out of school), Mothers, Sisters, Youth

Age

5 - 30

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational
  • Tertiary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs

Food/nutrition

  • Community food production

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Textbooks (digital)

Learning while working

  • Vocational training

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)

Reducing economic barriers

  • Financial literacy training
  • Income-generating activities

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased secondary school completion

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being