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Gender equality and social protection
The document discusses the importance of applying a gender lens to social protection (SP) to enhance empowerment outcomes for both women and men, focusing on food security and livelihoods. While SP can support communities, it may inadvertently increase inequalities if not designed considerately, and women's inclusion does not automatically equate to increased decision-making power. Recommendations include integrating gender equality into SP policies, providing support for care roles, and utilizing gender-disaggregated data to address underlying vulnerabilities.
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- 1. www.iied.org @IIED Gender Equalityand Social Protection Tracy C. Kajumba, Principal Researcher, Climate Change Group Tracy.Kajumba@iied.org
- 2. Tracy KajumbaGender Equalityand Social Protection 2
- 3. Tracy Kajumba • Evidencefrom development contexts suggests that systematically applying a gender lens to SP enhances empowerment outcomes for women and men • Food security • Productive investments and livelihoods • Enhancing capacity to manage lifecycle risks • Smoothing consumption and ultimately contributing to lifting people out of poverty. • Programmes that tackle women’s age-related and work- related vulnerabilities, like childcare, have proven to be effective • Cash transfers are better at providing assets to women than employment schemes and are beneficial for households Gender Equality and Social Protection 3 Social protection and gender equality…
- 4. Tracy Kajumba • Socialprotection supports communities, households and individuals – but may increase inequalities e.g. target the formal sector where women are under-represented, fail to address underlying causes of inequality, etc. • Household income vs intra household relations - men may withhold ‘their’ income within the household, and resist women’s control over resources • Conditional transfers - conditionalities may act to reinforce the burden of multiple expectations placed on women. • Women being principal beneficiaries does not necessarily enhance women’s decision-making power within the household … unintended consequence of reinforcing gendered divisions of labour. • A narrow focus on women, to the exclusion of men, may assist women within existing frameworks of gender relations without necessarily transforming their conditions. Gender Equality and Social Protection 4 Power relations…
- 5. Tracy KajumbaGender Equalityand Social Protection 5 Ensuring SP is gender transformative… Approaches What needs to happen.. Coherence in policy and practice Integrate gender equality in SP policies, implementation, monitoring and evaluation -avoid siloed approaches and provide complementary gendered approaches across sectors– SP can only be part of the solution Targeting Based on gender & vulnerability to ensure that the usually excluded groups thru normal targeting are meaningfully supported -women, the very poor, migrants, those affected by disasters etc Gender analysis Analysis of gender specific vulnerabilities & needs; gender differentiated impact; addressing underlying causes of vulnerability (governance, policies, risks/shocks etc) Supporting & valuing care roles for women Affirmative action - Childcare facilities in public works programmes, flexible hours, sex quotas in governance structures etc Empowerment Economic empowerment, voice, participation and decision-making power for women and other socially marginalised groups; enhanced accountability & transparency, challenging the status quo; Monitoring and Evaluation Gender-disaggregated indicators and data; Gender analysis in impact measurement – to challenge unequal benefits from SP
- 6. Tracy KajumbaGender Equalityand Social Protection 6 Further reading Luttrell, C. and Moser, C., 2004, ‘Gender and Social Protection’, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London Social protection floors and gender equality : a brief overview / Lou Tessier, Maya Stern Plaza, Christina Behrendt, Florence Bonnet, Emmanuelle St-Pierre Guibault ; International Labour Office, Social Protection Department. - Geneva: ILO, 2013. https://socialprotection-humanrights.org/expertcom/do-social-protection-programmes-that- impose-conditionalities-on-women-fail-to-confront-patriarchy-as-a-root-cause-of-inequality/ https://pim.cgiar.org/2020/03/18/toward-gender-equality-in-social-protection-evidence-gaps- and-priority-research-questions/ https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_405766/lang--en/index.htm
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