Expert Group Meeting: Social protection systems, public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality

In preparation for the sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women, UN Women will convene an Expert Group Meeting on the priority theme: “Social protection systems, public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality” in New York, 13 to 15 September 2018.

• Report
• Concept Note
• Programme of work

Background Papers

• Deepta Chopra, Institute of Development Studies
  Initiating women’s empowerment; achieving gender equality: Interlinkages amongst Social Protection, Infrastructure and Public Services
• Gita Sen, Public Health Foundation of India; Veloshnee Govender, World Health Organization (WHO); Salma El-Gamal, independent consultant
  Universal Health Coverage, Gender Equality and Social Protection: A Health Systems Approach

Expert papers

• Éva Fodor, Central European University
  Gendered threats to social protection in an anti-liberal state
• Liu Hong, School of Social Development and Public Policy Fudan University
  Migration for care and care for migrants in East Asia: Challenges for social policy and long-term care reforms
• Nana Akua Anyidoho, University of Ghana
  Making space for women’s informal livelihoods in urban africa
• Mignon Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  The Paid Care Sector: Building Human Infrastructure for Gender Equality
• Verónica Montúfar, Public Services International-PSI
  Advancing Women’s Human Rights through Gender Responsive, Quality Public Services
• Flora Myamba, Women and Social Protection Tanzania
  Sustainable Gender-Responsive Social Protection Systems: Breaking the Gender Norms Barrier in South Saharan Africa
• James Heintz, University of Massachusetts
  Four Points about Financing Social Policies and Public Investment
• Reihana Mohideen, University of Melbourne
  Transitions to sustainable energy in Asia: challenges and opportunities for gender equality
• Tara Patricia Cookson, Ladysmith
  Social Protection and Access to Public Services in the Age of Conditionality
• Rachel Slater, Centre for International Development and Training
  Gender, social protection and services in fragile and conflict-affected situations
• Magdalena Sepúlveda, UN Research Institute for Social Development
  What does human rights law have to do with social protection systems? Operationalizing the human rights principles of equality and transparency
• Hania Sholkamy, The American University in Cairo
  Will the trend towards cash undermine public provisions? Reflection from Egypt and the ME
• Tanu Priya Uteng, Department of Sustainable Urban Development and Mobility Institute of Transport Economics
  Addressing the interlinkages between gender and transport in developing economies
• Haris Gazdar, Collective for Social Science Research
  Social Protection and Women’s Work in Rural South Asia
• Camila Azra, National Scientific and Technical Research Council
  Pensions and gender equality in Latin America: Long-standing gaps and recent developments

Observer papers

• Maja Gavrilovic, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
  Gender Perspectives in Social Protection for Rural and Agriculture-dependent Communities
• Laura Addati and Christina Behrendt, International Labour Organization (ILO)
  Key ILO recommendations
• IANWGE – Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality
  Women’s access to social protection and public services – Best practice case studies

Over the past five years, UN Women has produced a series of knowledge products with direct relevance to the CSW63 priority theme, including the following policy briefs and discussion papers:

• Policy brief no. 1: Making national social protection floors work for women
• Policy brief no. 2: Gender equality, child development and job creation: How to reap the ‘triple dividend’ from early childhood education and care services
• Policy brief no. 3: Protecting women’s income security in old age: Toward gender-responsive pension systems
• Policy brief no. 5: Redistributing unpaid care and sustaining quality care services: A prerequisite for gender equality
• Policy brief no. 7: Making social protection gender-responsive: Lessons from UN Women's work in the Eastern Caribbean
• Policy brief no. 9: Long-term care for older people: A new global gender priority

• Eldercare policies in East Asia and Europe: Mapping policy changes and variations and their implications (2017)
• Investing in gender-equal sustainable development (2016)
• Gender equality and sustainable development: A pathways approach (2016)
• Financing for gender equality in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (2016)
• Delivering development justice? Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2016)
• Towards gender equality through sanitation access (2016)
• Child-related financial transfers and early childhood education and care: A review of key developments, impacts and influences in child-related support to families (2015)
• Expanding health-care access in the United States: Gender and the patchwork “universalism” of the Affordable Care Act (2015)
• Falling through the net? Gender and social protection in the Pacific (2015)
• Are governments catching up? Work–family policy and inequality in Latin America (2015)