A compilation of policy analyses by the Women’s Budget Group on the economic impact of COVID-19 on women in the UK.
Women’s Budget Group. (n.d). COVID-19.
Feminists for a people’s vaccine
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) and Third World Network (TWN) are facilitating the Feminists for a People’s Vaccine Campaign (FPV) for equitable, accessible, and affordable COVID-19 vaccines, drugs, therapeutics, and equipment—Access to Medicines or A2M for short.
The FPV Campaign brings the unique perspective of feminists from the Global South and our partners and allies in the North to challenge the causes and consequences of extreme inequalities in access to medicines. Geography, wealth, income, gender, race, caste, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and other factors shape who has access and who has not, who will live and who will die.
We analyse and question the rapidly changing pandemic panorama and shed light on key players. We look closely at initiatives such as the waiver proposal on implementing the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS), administered by the World Trade Organization (WTO), the COVAX Facility and the South versus North imbalance in global trade, investment and financing.
As COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out across the globe, many have wondered whether pregnant and lactating people can or should be vaccinated as part of broader immunization efforts. Countries have taken a variety of positions – ranging from highly restrictive policies that bar access to vaccines based on pregnancy or lactation status to widely permissive positions in which all pregnant or lactating people can receive vaccine, and in some cases, are recommended and encouraged to do so.
The COVID-19 Maternal Immunization Tracker (COMIT) provides a global snapshot of public health policies that influence access to COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant and lactating people. Through maps, tables, and country profiles, COMIT provides regularly updated information on country policies and the recommendations of professional medical societies as they respond to the dynamic state of the pandemic and emerging evidence…
Berman Institute of Bioethics & Center for Immunization Research, Johns Hopkins University. (2021). Covid-19 Maternal Immunization Tracker (COMIT).
Materials crowd-sourced from the FinEquity community on the issue of women’s financial resiliency as it relates to COVID-19 (or other serious crises).
FinDev Gateway. (2020). Women’s financial resiliency as it relates to COVID-19.
COVID-19 has exacerbated gender inequalities in society. The Scientific and Academic Gender (in)equality during COVID-19 (SAGE19) project looks at this reality in the academic context considering the gender segregation dynamics that already exist and the new challenges that have arisen due to the pandemic. The aim of the project is to analyze the consequences of the pandemic on gender inequalities in academia, particularly in Portugal, considering its immediate and long-term effects and to promote recommendations for measures and policies to mitigate its impact on academic women’s career.
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. (2020). Scientific and Academic Gender (in)equality during Covid-19 (SAGE19).
The Gender & Health Hub Buzzboard is an online discussion forum by the United Nations University-International Institute of Global Health, aimed at setting the agenda for health research. Participants may contribute to five thematic gender and COVID-19 areas:
The User guide tab (visible after sign-up/log-in) provides suggested steps to navigate the website. For further information, please also read the posts on the Project Information tab.
United Nations University-International Institute of Global Health. (2020). Gender & Health Hub Buzzboard.
At the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP), we believe that despite the unprecedented challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has created, it is an opportunity to build more just, peaceful and equitable societies.
To achieve this, it is necessary to adopt gender- and conflict-sensitive COVID-19 responses and recovery measures, which are based on reliable data and information on the gendered impact of the pandemic, including the information coming from local women peacebuilders and civil society. This is why we developed a global database on COVID-19 and Women, Peace and Security.
The primary objective of this database is to encourage and inform the development and implementation of gender- and conflict-sensitive COVID-19 response and recovery strategies. We do this by documenting the leadership of local women peacebuilders in addressing the pandemic, and by providing concrete data and evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on women, and on peace and security. The information in the database is therefore grouped into five main categories: (1) Impact on women and gender equality; (2) Impact on women’s rights and peacebuilding organizations; (3) Impact on peace and security; (4) Women-led responses: Humanitarian action; and (5) Women-led responses: Peacebuilding and conflict prevention…
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders. (2020). COVID-19 and Women, Peace and Security Database.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused tremendous upheaval to health systems around the world, disrupting access to family planning information and services, as well as sexual and reproductive health more broadly. Despite this disruption, the need for family planning remains the same. For women, family planning is critical, basic health care. As health systems shift to prevent and treat people with COVID-19, it is essential they also protect access to family planning services.
Throughout this crisis, Family Planning 2020 has been working with country and global partners to ensure family planning remains an essential element of the global health agenda. FP2020 has created this platform to ensure key information from global experts about access to family planning during this crisis is getting into the hands of the decision-makers and program implementers who need it. Likewise, we will be sharing experiences of our country partners and the lessons they are learning, including how the virus is having an impact on their work and the strategies they are using to continue service delivery.
FP (2020). COVID-19 & Family Planning.
Gender data is necessary for a gender-sensitive response to COVID-19
This is true not only for alleviating the immediate health crisis but also for crafting policy measures to mitigate the long-term impacts of the pandemic on women’s livelihoods and well-being. It is crucial that gender data remain a priority commitment for the global community both before and after the current outbreak.
With this in mind, Data2X is monitoring organizations currently advocating for gender data collection and use worldwide in addition to collating resources on gender and COVID-19. Data2X will undertake further analysis of longer-term impacts in the coming weeks — and in particular, consider the gender data necessary for governments to design comprehensive and gender-sensitive social and economic policy responses to the global pandemic.
This compilation of gender data, gender, and data resources related to COVID-19 aims to inform policymakers, governments, decision-makers, and researchers who want to understand and respond thoughtfully to the gendered impacts of the pandemic.
Data2X. (2020). COVID-19 Resources: Gender Data, Gender, and Data.
Stories from girls around the world, highlighting their experinces during COVID-19.
Hear Her Voice. (2020). Covid-19 stories: girls’ lives under lockdown.
