Gender-responsive COVID-19 recovery
Strengthening country systems through official development assistance and gender-responsive
budgeting
Responding to the gender impacts of COVID-19 – including lost economic opportunities
when taking on more domestic and care work in the health sector and at home, and increased
violence – requires more tailored policies and resources that support gender equality
and women’s empowerment. It also means including women in leadership and decision
making in all aspects of the recovery. Official development assistance (ODA) is key
to improved gender analysis by donors and development partners, and the broader application
of gender-responsive budgeting tools across public finance management (PFM) systems.
This paper provides recommendations to better align ODA to gender-sensitive responses
in the disbursement of COVID-19 relief and recovery funds, and considers how PFM systems
should be strengthened by donors and partner countries to provide for gender-sensitive
recoveries.
Available from December 23, 2021
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