Search
Results for " "
Displaying 15 of about 50 resultsThis report explores the strategies led by government, nongovernmental and civil society organizations to prevent and respond to violence against women and children (VAWC) during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of the pandemic on service demand across the WHO European Region. An assessment between 1 January and 17 September 2020 included a scopi…
As part of the UN Women programme ‘Women and Girls at the Centre of COVID-19 Prevention,’ Humanitarian Advisory Group (HAG) developed a framework and tools for assessing the progress and impact of women’s leadership and meaningful participation in the COVID-19 response.
The framework and tools were tested in the Philippines and a baseline report was pr…
This strategy report offers a policy-focused analysis of the world we will face once the pandemic has passed. At a time when all assumptions about the shape of Australian society and the broader global order are being challenged, there is a need to take stock of likely future directions.
The report analyses 26 key topics, countries and themes, ranging…
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is both a health pandemic that is killing thousands and a socio-economic crisis that is threatening the welfare of millions. Although the pandemic affects people across all walks of life, certain groups are more impacted than others.
This brief, developed by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office…
This document reports on the network's successes in disaster preparedness, response and recovery; health promotion; food security; development; gender equality; promotion of humanitarian principles and values; and its efforts to reduce stigma and discrimination suffered by vulnerable groups across the world. It recalls the prioritization of disaster pre…
In May 2020, UN Women initiated online consultations with gender equality mechanisms from 14 countries (Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Turkey) in the Western Balkans and Turkey, Eastern Partnership and Central Asia sub-regions to…
The Rapid Gender Assessment (RGA) was conducted to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and men in North Macedonia, and how the changing situation is affecting the socio-economic situation and livelihoods.
The assessment provides an overview of the pre-crisis situation and changes with the onset of the pandemic and will serve as data sou…
This paper examines the extent to which social protection responses to the crisis have recognised and addressed the gendered impacts of the crisis. The impacts of the Covid-19 crisis have exacerbated gender inequalities. The rapid onset of the crisis in early 2020 severely disrupted livelihoods, and these impacts were strongly mediated by existing…
This study analyses HIV prevalence in rural Lesotho among adolescent girls exposed to severe drought, as well as the possible underlying causes of contraction, such as drought-responsive sex work and transactional marriages that inhibited educational attainment. To determine if there were any associations between drought and HIV-related outcomes, the au…
Each newsletter in this FAO Regional Emergency Office for Southern Africa (REOSA) series for DIPECHO/ECHO Food Security Partners introduces a specific disaster risk reduction (DRR) food security project, presents country updates and upcoming meetings.
Issue 3: Reducing the risk of disaster in community based agriculture in Malawi
Issue 5: Mains…
Whether refugees living in overcrowded camps or jobless migrant workers forced to return home, the lives of millions of people in Asia-Pacific are threatened by the dangerous combination of displacement and the COVID-19 pandemic.
This brief, developed by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, highlig…
This report highlights case studies and lessons learned from 20 countries during COVID-19. The evidence shows the need for investments in gender equality in health systems to prepare for and respond to the next pandemic. Even before COVID-19, investments in health systems - and especially female health workers - were too low. In 2019 the world had a gap…
This Handbook highlights the importance of localization of the SDGs especially regarding gender equality, helps assess the impact of COVID-19 on women’s economic security and recovery, and offers tools to develop feasible solutions at the local level for economic recovery and gender equality. Women’s economic empowerment is a catalyst for gender eq…
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has deeply impacted women and girls and the efforts to end violence against women. It had profound effects on the operations of civil society organizations (CSOs) delivering specialist services, as well as women’s access to those services.
Conducted in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, M…
Global studies conducted by the United Nations on the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 and its impact on women, have shown that the pandemic "is deepening pre-existing inequalities, exposing vulnerabilities in social, political and economic systems which are in turn amplifying the impacts of the pandemic."
The Rapid Gender Assessment (RGA) of COVID-19…