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Relatório de prestação de contas

31 Aug 2024

Building on the work by the South African Institute of International Affairs which demonstrated that the lack of gender inclusivity was the biggest factor responsible for the high socio- economic vulnerabilities faced by African countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, this policy brief seeks to enhance the understanding of the intersectionality of gender and poverty and how it can contribute to so. [...] This is partly due to the lack of a gender perspective in the design of the interventions that the government undertook. [...] During the pandemic, women’s access to health may have suffered due to the shifting priorities in the health sectors and lack of capacity in the health systems of low-income countries (Osanan et al. [...] Health and care work is one area where all these issues feature prominently since a lot of this work is not adequately accounted for and women are overrepresented in the sector (up to 67% according to the World Health Organisation).1 During the pandemic, the health and care responsibilities – including unpaid care – nearly doubled thus highlighting the need for addressing the gender disparities in. [...] For the health and care economy, absence of the right investments is likely to see the economic vulnerabilities faced by women in the sector are increase.

Authors

Gabriella Cavalcanti

Pages
13
Published in
Nigeria

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