Social Protection, Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment and Gender Equality

This project aims to promote informed policy debate, improved coordination and joint action on gender-responsive social protection through research and convening. It is supported by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in their role as Social Protection Inter-Agency Cooperation Board (SPIAC-B) Gender Working Group Chair and organised around the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63 2019). The project is organised around the following themes: social protection systems, access to public services and infrastructure and women’s and girls’ empowerment, gender, social protection and the future of work, the political economy of gender-responsive social protection, and financing gender-responsive social protection. Activities and outputs of this project include: the drafting and facilitation of a SPIAC-B Joint Statement to the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 2019), a technical workshop and elaboration of a roadmap on social protection and gender equality (forthcoming), working papers, and webinars.