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The “World survey on the role of women in development” is presented every five years to the Economic and Financial Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. It provides a unique opportunity to submit a research product covering economic and development issues with a gender perspective, for deliberation by UN Member States.

2024 edition

The 2024 edition focuses on the theme, “Harnessing social protection for gender equality, resilience and transformation”. The report explores how integrated, gender-responsive social protection systems can advance gender equality in the context of more frequent disasters and chronic crises, including for groups facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination. In doing so, it takes stock of gender gaps in coverage, adequacy, and comprehensiveness and identifies promising practices for closing them. It also explores how social protection systems can be financed in a progressive, gender-equitable, and sustainable way.

To produce the report, UN Women brought together researchers, policymakers, civil society actors, and UN system partners, with the aim of delivering a report with strong and sustained inputs and buy-in, which will provide guidance to policymakers and support advocacy for a new generation of gender-responsive social protection systems.

World survey on the role of women in development 2024: Harnessing social protection for gender equality, resilience and transformation
World survey on the role of women in development 2024: Harnessing social protection for gender equality, resilience and transformation