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Blog Post
September 27, 2021
2021 has been a big year for global gender equality advocates, practitioners, and investors. The Generation Equality Forum brought together donor governments, multilateral organizations, philanthropists, activists, and youth leaders to accelerate progress toward Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5:...
Nov
5
2021
10:00—11:15 AM EASTERN TIME (US AND CANADA)
September 21, 2021
Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations have been using epidemiological and operational modelling to predict the spread of the novel coronavirus as well as estimate the impact of different control measures.
Blog Post
September 14, 2021
After 16 years under Angela Merkel, the German federal election is just around the corner, with the chancellorship up for grabs. But no matter which parties form the new government, who presides over it as chancellor, and what that person’s gender is, one thing seems certain: the issue of gende...
Blog Post
September 01, 2021
How can organizations and networks in Washington, DC, London, or Paris contribute to shifting power dynamics in international development in support of researchers, advocates, and practitioners in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)? In August, Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS...
Sep
14
2021
11:00—12:30 PM Washington DC time
August 31, 2021
The Center for Global Development (CGD) and Women in Global Health (WGH) are pleased to co-host this event, following the second session of the Generation Equality Forum, organized by UN Women in collaboration with France as country host. The Forum process, which ran over the past two year...
Op-Ed
August 20, 2021
Lack of access to quality childcare has been a longstanding issue, especially in low- and middle-income countries, with consequences for children’s and caregivers’ well-being and countries’ overall development.
Now, COVID-era containment measures, resulting in school and childcare center closures...
POLICY PAPERS
August 18, 2021
In an updated review on the gendered social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, we examine 49 studies identified by our search criteria between January and March 2021. This review included peer-reviewed papers, pre-prints and working papers that met specific search terms, contained empirica...
Blog Post
August 18, 2021
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) have an important role to play to ensure that women and girls don’t get left behind in COVID-19 recovery efforts, and prioritizing investments in quality, affordable childcare will be key to this end. But to date, MDBs have not made childcare a central priority ...
Blog Post
August 11, 2021
The rhetoric around women’s economic empowerment (WEE) in global development is finally being translated into action. Development organizations are using this objective to guide operations and exploring ways to measure impact by integrating WEE indicators into project results frameworks.