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.
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 briefs- 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)