The World Bank’s Gender Strategy (2024-2030) aims to tackle both formal and informal barriers to gender inequality, including power imbalances that often affect women and girls disproportionally. To achieve enduring gender equality, there must be collective action to influence transformative changes in laws, policies, and programming grounded in a deeper understanding of the interaction between different actors and stakeholders at the individual, household, community, and institutional levels. This note outlines how social protection contributes to the objectives of the World Bank’s Gender Strategy, which are to end GBV and elevate human capital, expand and enable economic opportunities, and engage women as leaders. This note presents evidence and operational experience on how social protection can boost gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment outcomes and discusses challenges that need to be addressed to maximize the impact of social protection interventions at scale. Recommendations are offered on ways to further amplify gender equality outcomes.
Authors
Al-Ahmadi, Afrah, Heinemann, Alessandra, Mossman, Lindsay, Rawlings, Laura
- Citation
- “ Al-Ahmadi, Afrah ; Heinemann, Alessandra ; Mossman, Lindsay ; Rawlings, Laura . 2024 . Accelerating Gender Equality Through Social Protection . © Washington, DC: World Bank . http://hdl.handle.net/10986/42271 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO . ”
- Collection(s)
- World Bank Gender Thematic Policy Notes Series
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1596/42271
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- 34408773
- Identifier internaldocumentum
- 34408773
- Pages
- 24
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- United States of America
- Region country
- World
- Report
- 194225
- Rights
- CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
- Rights Holder
- World Bank
- Rights URI
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
- UNIT
- People - HNP Global Engagement (HHNGE)
- URI
- https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42271
- date disclosure
- 2024-10-21
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Table of Contents
- EVIDENCE AND PRACTICE NOTE 1
- INTRODUCTION 3
- Boosting women and girls human capital and addressing GBV through social assistance 5
- BOX 1. EMPOWERING WOMEN AND GIRLS IN ZAMBIA THROUGH A MULTI-LAYERED CASH-PLUS AND ECONOMIC INCLUSION INTERVENTION 5
- BOX 2. ADDRESSING GBV IN SOCIAL PROTECTION OPERATIONS IN SOUTH SUDAN ZAMBIA AND CAMEROON 6
- BOX 3. CASH PLUS INTERVENTIONS TO PROMOTE HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION ECONOMIC INCLUSION AND ADDRESSING HARMFUL SOCIAL NORMS EGYPT TAKAFUL AND KARAMA PROGRAM 7
- Expanding and enabling economic opportunities for women 8
- BOX 4. BUILDING WOMENS CLIMATE RESILIENCE THROUGH ECONOMIC INCLUSION IN NIGER 8
- BOX 5. HELPING ADOLESCENT GIRLS TRANSITION TO PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYMENT 10
- Building resilience through adaptive social protection in the face of crises and the impact of FCV 11
- BOX 6. REFORMING REGULATORY BARRIERS LIMITING JOBS FOR WOMEN IN EGYPT 11
- FIGURE 1. SOCIAL PROJECTION PROGRAMS AND SYSTEMS CAN BE USED FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION 12
- SPOTLIGHT 1. MIGRATION SOCIAL PROTECTION AND GENDER OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES 13
- Coverage 14
- CHALLENGES TO SCALING UP SOCIAL PROTECTIONS GENDER EQUALITY IMPACTS 14
- Informality and gender disparities in social insurance 14
- BOX 7. EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL PROTECTION POLICY AND PROGRAM INTERVENTIONS THAT ENABLE UNEMPLOYMENT PROTECTION FOR WOMEN 15
- Social Care and Services 16
- BOX 8. TACKLING CHILDCARE TO IMPROVE WOMENS LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION 17
- Social norms 17
- BOX 9 OPERATIONAL EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL PROTECTION PROJECTS INCORPORATING MEASURES TO CHALLENGE SOCIAL NORMS 18
- Data 18
- SPOTLIGHT 2. IMPROVING THE AVAILABILITY OF SEX-DISAGGREGATED SOCIAL PROTECTION DATA 19
- LOOKING AHEAD LEVERAGING SOCIAL PROTECTION TO ACCELERATE GENDER EQUALITY 20
- REFERENCES 23
