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COVID-19 in Development Contexts

Mapping the Impact of COVID-19 on WPS Practitioners in the Indo-Pacific Region

https://www.monash.edu/arts/gender-peace-security/news-and-events/articles/new-research-mapping-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-wps-practitioners-in-the-indo-pacific-region

We mapped the early impacts of the pandemic on those working with vulnerable communities via a regional survey, so that policymakers and donors could be better informed as they prepare strategies to contain Covid-19 and address its human security effects in the Indo-Pacific region.

#asia-pacific #indo-pacific #india #covid-19 #gender #peace and security #women peacebuilders

about 6 years ago

Gender and energy at center stage in COVID-19 battle

https://www.energia.org/cm2/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/covid-position-paper_FINAL.pdf

Energy access remains as important as ever for households and businesses, as pointed out by the World Bank and the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative, with health infrastructure and women’s role in care stressed. Further, traditional cooking smoke may pose an additional risk for women if infected.

#energy #electricity #covid-19 #access to energy #gender

about 6 years ago

COVID-19 and Child, Early, and Forced Marriage: An Agenda for Action

https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/COVID-19-and-child-early-and-forced-marriage_FINAL.pdf

This brief provides insights, recommendations, and resources for responding to the needs of adolescent girls, including those at risk of child marriage, during and after the crisis.

#child marriage #girls #women and girls #women's rights #covid-19 #reproductive rights #gender-based violence

over 6 years ago

COVID-19 abuse fears for women in South Sudan

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2020/05/06/coronavirus-south-sudan-women-abuse-gender-violence

Women in camps worry they will find little aid if they become victims of physical or sexual violence.

#covid-19 #south sudan #africa #gender-based violence #gender

over 6 years ago

Opinion | A Second Covid Crisis Is Coming

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/24/covid-crisis-women-205856

If we don’t act now, women and girls will be suffering from the pandemic’s fallout for decades to come.

#covid-19 #gender #gender-based violence #maternal and child health

over 6 years ago

UN Women - The First 100 Days of COVID-19 in Asian and the Pacific: A Gender Lens

https://www2.unwomen.org/-/media/field%20office%20eseasia/docs/publications/2020/04/ap_first_100%20days_covid-19.pdf

This document provides a rapid and preliminary review of the gendered impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic 100 days after the first cases were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). It aims to: • present a snapshot of the gender dimensions of the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic in the Asia-Pacific region; • capture promising practices for integrating gender in preparedness and response planning; and • propose lessons learned and strategic entry points to mitigate the socio-economic impacts for women and girls

#gender #gender analysis #asia #asia-pacific #covid-19

over 6 years ago

UNIN Quarterly Innovation Update - COVID-19 Special Edition.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1andWztlz4o2qBtC8gGuMUEsL6pB1LSCP/view

The United Nations Innovation Network has released a Special Update which highlights how 30 UN entities are leveraging innovative approaches to respond to COVID-19.

#covid-19 #data #initiatives #entrepreneurship #technology #resources #children

over 6 years ago

Informal workers on the frontlines of COVID-19: Providing critical services without adequate protections and pay | WIEGO

https://www.wiego.org/blog/informal-workers-frontlines-covid-19-providing-critical-services-without-adequate-protections

In the global South, many of these workers – such as street and market vendors, newspaper sellers, waste pickers and domestic workers – work in the informal economy. Now, without legal and social protections, they are working to sustain their families and ensure their communities have the food and basic services they need to survive – all at great personal risk.

#informal economy #covid-19 #poverty #policy #south america

over 6 years ago

ICAN’s Statement on our Gender- and Conflict-Sensitive Response to COVID-19 - ICAN

https://icanpeacework.org/2020/04/15/icans-statement-on-our-gender-and-conflict-sensitive-response-to-covid-19/

The expertise that women peacebuilders have in allaying fears, building community, fostering social cohesion and gender sensitivity, dealing with the racism and hatred that is already spiking, and highlighting the risk of police brutality is and will continue to be profoundly important.

#women peacebuilders #statement #covid-19 #gender #war and conflict

over 6 years ago

Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal'

https://amp-ft-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca

Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.

#india #poverty #classism #government response #migrant workers #quarantines #global development

over 6 years ago

How are Women Peacebuilders Responding to Covid-19? - ICAN

https://icanpeacework.org/2020/04/08/how-are-women-peacebuilders-responding-to-covid-19/

Summary of how women peacebuilders around the globe are responding to COVID-19.

#women peacebuilders #peace and security #covid-19 #gender #war and conflict

over 6 years ago

Surviving COVID19: Why we need to listen to African women’s organisations

https://medium.com/@AWDF/surviving-covid19-why-we-need-to-listen-to-african-womens-organisations-525825503661

Generalised catastrophe may well be the “new normal” for the privileged, but it has been the backdrop of African women’s organising for generations.

#africa #covid-19 #women's organizations #systems change #partner organizations #awdf

over 6 years ago

Why Women’s Rights Must be Central to the UN Security Council’s Response to COVID-19

https://www.womenpeacesecurity.org/womens-rights-security-councils-response-to-covid-19/

Less than 1% of evidence on outbreaks such as Ebola or the Zika virus analyzed any of their gender dimensions; yet, available analysis demonstrates that women are both more likely to be infected due to their role as primary caregivers or healthcare workers, and less likely to be able to meet their own needs.

#ebola #gender data gap #zika #infectious diseases #gender #war and conflict #crisis response

over 6 years ago

NGOs Pivot to COVID-19 Prevention in Refugee Camps | Inter Press Service

http://www.ipsnews.net/2020/04/women-africa-vulnerable-covid-19-pandemic/

Most of the South Sudanese refugees we work together with cannot afford soap. How to even begin talking about prevention when people are unable to wash their hands properly?

#refugees #ngo #covid-19 #pandemic #refugee camps #migration #africa

over 6 years ago

Women-led responses to COVID-19: Report from Monrovia, Liberia

https://www.feministhumanitariannetwork.org/post/women-led-responses-to-covid-19-report-from-monrovia-liberia

The women in these communities are leading the response. The post-Ebola structures provide support in terms of experiences and advice. The community leadership provides support in terms of the authority.

#women-led #women's funds #liberia #africa #covid-19 #crisis response

over 6 years ago

Protecting women is missing from pandemic management measures in India

https://qz.com/india/1826683/indias-approach-to-fighting-coronavirus-lacks-a-gender-lens

There is increasing recognition of the ways in which the health-related warlike emergency measures are disproportionately affecting specific sections of our society adversely.

#wage #quarantine #caste #domestic violence #abuse #work from home #india #covid-19

over 6 years ago