This report presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, focusing not only on the current level of progress, but also on the likelihood of achieving gender equality across the Goals at the current trajectory. Among this year’s recommendations is a call to significantly expand national investments and international financing in support of gender equality.
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This guidance note highlights the emerging impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women migrant workers, focusing on the key challenges and risks they face. It makes…
With many businesses struggling to survive as a consequence of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, loss of jobs and income and rising working poverty are a…
Investing in free universal childcare in the Republic of North Macedonia: Analysis of costs, short-…
This paper examines the case for investing in free universal childcare services in North Macedonia in order to reduce gender inequality in employment, labour market…
Social protection is a universal human right and a key element of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. While this right unequivocally applies to migrants,…
This brief reviews a decade of feminist research on conditional cash transfers that has raised serious questions about the assumptions that underpin the use of…
This handbook provides practical guidance, elaborated with case studies, on how additional fiscal space can be created for a universal social protection system. The…
Costing of a package of family-friendly transfers and services to advance gender equality and women…
This discussion paper presents a costing analysis for a set of family-friendly services and transfers: income protection for children, people of working age, and older…
This discussion paper identifies some of the most prevalent custody and child maintenance regimes in cases of divorce, dissolution of a civil union, and separation of…
The 2019 “World survey” is focused on the reasons for the high levels of income poverty and time poverty among women and contains an analysis of the rationale for taking…
RESPECT Women is a policy framework launched by twelve UN, bilateral, and multilateral agencies, which outlines steps for a public health and human rights–based approach…