COVID-19 and Gender Recommendations

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating effect on all people, particularly impacting girls and women and threatening to unravel decades of progress toward gender equality. While we continue to gather gender-specific data to pinpoint exactly where, how, and who the crisis is affecting, there are enough preliminary statistics that reveal how girls and women are enduring the worst of the pandemic’s impact. They are losing their jobs, educational opportunities, and access to critical health care in greater, and growing, numbers.

If governments, the private-sector, and civil society leaders act now by applying a gender lens to their COVID-19 response and recovery plans, we can begin an inclusive recovery that accelerates progress toward gender equality. We must act urgently to ensure the unique needs of girls and women are addressed in the pandemic response and beyond.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://womendeliver.org/covid-19-and-gender-what-the-numbers-are-saying/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

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

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education

Quality

  • School-related gender-based violence

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Empowerment
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Mothers, Other community members - female, Sisters, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • N/A

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

Health and childcare services

  • Maternal and child health services
  • Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)

Other

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

Policy/legal environment

  • Developing/promoting new laws/policies
  • Public-private partnerships
  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased school completion (general)

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved maternal, newborn, and/or child health (MNCH)
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Melissa Garcia
Women Deliver
mgarcia@womendeliver.org