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Conditional Cash Transfers and Gender-Based Violence: Does t...
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 of home but contrib...
Cash Transfers as a Response to COVID-19: Experimental Evide...
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 to vulnerabl...
How Can We Better Support Women and Girls During Crises? Rea...
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 – amon...
Social Protection to Promote Gender Equality: What’s Needed ...
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 ne...
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: Empowering Women Through Enha...
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...
Policy Lessons on Social Protection (2023)
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 soci...
Understanding the Impacts of Paid Maternity Leave on Women’s...
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 European Social Survey, ...
With or Without Him? Experimental Evidence on Cash Grants an...
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 t...
Can Digital G2P Payments Increase Financial Inclusion and Em...
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 wom...
Home-Based Women Workers and Social Protection in Pakistan (...
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 and essen...
Moving Up the Ladder: Economic Inclusion of Safety Net Recip...
Bangladesh has a successful track record of effective economic inclusion programs led by CSOs. Recognizing that government-implemented initiatives are critical for addressing widespread poverty, this ...
Changing Rural Women’s Lives Through Gender Transformative S...
Placing heavy emphasis on social norms, this report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations calls for the use of gender transformative approaches to improve women's access to ...