In this paper from the Gender Innovation Lab, East Asia and the Pacific region, the authors find that cash transfers had no impact on intimate partner violence and violence outside

This paper provides new evidence on the impact of a one-time cash transfer during a severe global downturn. In this research, an unconditional cash transfer was delivered via mobile money

This blog argues that social protection can and should build women and girls’ resilience, by ensuring that women and girls are adequately covered by social protection systems before crisis hits –

When designed well, social protection can drive progress for wider and longer-term development objectives, including gender equality. This blog from the Center for Global Development highlights the need for and importance of

Social assistance spending is not being effectively leveraged in the Western Balkans, according to the authors of this blog. Pensions consume the majority of social protection budgets, leaving limited resources to

A new brief from the Gender Innovation Lab Federation synthesizes findings from impact evaluations conducted by member labs designed to understand what works, and not, in supporting women through social

More is not necessarily better when it comes to maternity leave. The authors link data on 40 years of paid leave across 24 European countries to individual-level data from the

Better without him, according to this large-scale RCT conducted in Tunisia. The study assessed changes in women’s economic empowerment following the receipt of large cash grants and gender-sensitive trainings conducted

Yes, Government-to-People (G2P) payments can empower women to make autonomous decisions about household finances, especially child-related spending. This insight is gleaned from the experiences of women enrolled in the Bangladesh

Informal, home-based women workers in Pakistan are highly vulnerable. This UNDP report focuses on the need to extend social protection to these workers, who lack access to basic labor rights