Conflict and fragility can increase women and girls’ exposure to gender-based violence (GBV) and make it more difficult for them to access social services, including sexual and reproductive health services. This evaluation uses several elements to assess the Bank Group’s country support for women and girls’ economic empowerment and GBV prevention and response. Read More
Gender-based Violence
Gender-Transformative Collective Action to End Child Marriage and Advance Girls’ Rights: The Experience of Coligação Para Eliminação dos Casamentos Prematuros, the Girls Not Brides National Partnership to End Child Marriage in Mozambique
This report shares highlights from Coligação para Eliminação dos Casamentos Prematuros (CECAP, the Girls Not Brides National Partnership to End Child Marriage in Mozambique), a civil society organization collective invested in strengthening their gender-transformative skills, knowledge, and leadership to systematically analyze and address the root causes of gender inequality at the individual and systems levels. This report includes a review of the evidence and data, the partnership's gender-transformative ranking, and a road map of priorities for collective action to advance girls' rights.Read More
Innovation and Prevention of Violence Against Women
This knowledge brief aims to inspire and encourage policymakers, activists, practitioners, and researchers as they ask themselves how innovation may better fit into and strengthen their work to prevent violence against women and girls. It offers a goal-based working definition of innovation, describing promising innovative approaches through examples and making the case for further advancements, without compromising ethical and safety standards or evidence generation. Read More
REBUILD: The Social and Economic Impact of COVID-19 Policy Responses on Women Working in the Informal Urban Economy in Kenya
Kenya's COVID-19 policy response measures negatively impacted women’s livelihoods, economic activities, and access to sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence services. This report shares emerging findings from a study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and related policy responses on women in the urban informal sector in Nairobi, Kenya, as well as recommendations for policy and action to address gender inequalities in the informal economy.Read More
War-Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: A Community-Based Study
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) during armed conflicts has serious ramifications, with women and girls disproportionally affected. This study aims to assess the war-related SGBV impacts of the November 2020 conflict that erupted in Tigray, Ethiopia. Read More
Gendered Impacts of Climate Change: Empirical Evidence From Asia
To put in place inclusive strategies that increase the resilience of women and men in all their diversity, there is an urgent need to better understand the gendered effects of climate change across countries. To achieve this goal, this paper explores the connections between phenomena related to climate change and gender related outcomes—including child marriage, adolescent births, and intimate partner violence— in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste.Read More
