Children and Gender-Sensitive Social Protection
| Site: | EPRI Online Courses |
| Course: | SidaITP322: Social Protection for Sustainable Development |
| Book: | Children and Gender-Sensitive Social Protection |
| Printed by: | Guest user |
| Date: | Saturday, 12 April 2025, 7:10 AM |
Description
This module aims to help you develop a child and gender- sensitive perspective on social protection.org and understand the importance of such perspectives in planning and implementing social protection policies and programmes. These resources can help you critically consider cross-cutting issues while designing your country's change programme.
1. Social Protection and Early Childhood Development: How COVID-19 Changes the Landscape
This webinar makes the case for investing in child-sensitive social protection by illustrating the long-term implications of early childhood and adolescence development on human development outcomes including health, employment and education.Webinar Speaker(s): Dr Michael Samson (Course Convenor), Presksha Golchha (Lead Social Policy Advisor at the Economic Policy Research Institute)
Webinar Presentation
Webinar Video Recording (00h38m50s to 01h15m00s)
Supporting Resource 1: This analysis by BMJ Global Health looks at conditions that support optimal brain development in childhood and highlights how social protection promotes these conditions and strengthens the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asia and the Pacific. [Click here]
Supporting Resource 2: This blog by Pamela Pozarny on GSDRC explores the impacts of social protection programmes on children. [Click here]
2. Gendered impacts of COVID-19 and social protection responses in rural areas
This webinar by socialprotection.org presents an overview of the gendered dimensions of the response to COVID-19 in rural areas and highlights how social protection can be made gender-sensitive in the context of emergencies, specifically COVID-19.
Webinar Speaker(s): Máximo Torero Cullen, Susan Kaaria, Zahra Lillian Mokgosi, H.E. Nivine El-Kabbag, Renana Jhabvala, Rohie Bittaye-Darboe, Benjamin Davis
3. Gender-sensitive social protection
This webinar includes presentations on four subthemes of politics of gender, public policy responses to care work during COVID-19, impact of COVID-19 on women in informal sectors and making gender-sensitive social protection systems shock-responsive.
Webinar Speaker(s): Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed (UNICEF), Juan Gonzalo Meija (WFP), Rebecca Holmes (Overseas Development Institute), Karishma D'mello (Economic Policy Research Institute)
Webinar Presentation- Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed (UNICEF)
Webinar Presentation- Juan Gonzalo Meija (WFP)
Webinar Presentation- Rebecca Holmes (Overseas Development Institute)
Webinar Presentation- Karishma D'mello (Economic Policy Research Institute)
Webinar Video Recording (starts at 0h9m50s and ends at 1h20m00s)
Supporting Resource 1: This paper published by Social Indicators Research examines the impact of a conditional cash transfer on multidimensional deprivation of young women based on evidence from South Africa’s HTPN. [Click here]
Supporting resource 2: This document by Social Protection Approaches authored by Valentina Barca, Madhumitha Hebbar and Alexandra Cote outlines key entry points for increasing inclusiveness via information systems at each stage of the social assistance delivery chain, with a special focus on gender and disability. [Click here]