This guidance note aims to provide practical support to service providers operating Women and Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS) on how to adapt programming in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated preexisting structural economic inequalities, and had a disproportionate impact on informal workers, especially on women and young people, who lost jobs and income. The situation was even more difficult for single-parent households led by women, who also had to endure more housework and care tasks. As shown by various research studies, the asymmetric distribution of care tasks, taken up by women, is an inequality factor

Mothers, newborns, young children and adolescents are losing 20 percent of their health and social services due to the COVID-19 pandemic says a Panel of senior global health experts.

Groupe indépendant d’experts de la redevabilité de l’initiative Chaque femme, chaque enfant. (‎2020)‎. Dans la tourmente de la pandémie de COVID-19: la santé de la femme, de l’enfant et de l’adolescent dans le contexte de la couverture sanitaire universelle et des objectifs de développement durable : rapport 2020 : résumé d'orientation

Making sure that people with disabilities get the right health care to do with their bodies, sex, relationships and having children during COVID-19 About this information This information is about health care for people with disabilities to do with their bodies, sex, relationships and having children. For example, the health care might help people to give birth or have safer sex and relationships. This information is about making sure that people with disabilities can get this health care during COVID-19. And when other big problems happen in the world. People with disabilities have a right to get this healthcare like everyone else. But they are often left out. And COVID-19 has made things worse. This information is about what countries and organizations should do now for people with disabilities. We found out what many people with disabilities thought first. People in this document means women and girls, men, and boys with disabilities. It also means people with disabilities who are not the gender that people said they were when they were born. For example, someone may be told they are a boy because of how their body looks. But that is not who they really are. They might be a girl. Or they might not be a boy or girl

This document focus on the direct consequences of the virus (morbidity and mortality) in specific populations and on the results of measures aimed at mitigating the spread of the virus, with indirect impacts on socio-economic conditions. In this complex scenario, the gender approach has not received due attention during the pandemic. Gender is one of the structural determinants of health, but it does not appear in analyses of the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic, despite being essential in the recognition and analysis of the differential impacts on men and women and their interaction with the different determinants of health

In humanitarian settings, tailoring community engagement interventions for gender, language, and local culture improves communities’ uptake with interventions. Measures taken to prevent and respond to COVID-19 pandemic such as confinement may increase GBV, especially domestic violence and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). This document is meant as a starting point for the field colleagues to support them in ensuring communication to communities around COVID-19 includes gender-based violence (GBV)

Sexual and reproductive health is health issues that have to do with your body, sex, relationships, and having and giving birth to children. This includes having the information you need to be able to make your own decisions about your body, when to have sex, and whether or not to become a parent. This also includes having access to family planning methods—or contraceptives— when you do not want to become pregnant. The acronym SRH is often used as a way to refer to sexual and reproductive health

Actions, Gaps and the Way Forward

24 Nov. 2021 Action against gender-based violence being pushed to the outlying margins of the global COVID-19 response A new Oxfam report shows an undeniable increase in gender-based violence (GBV) during the COVID-19 pandemic around the world to which too many governments and donors are not doing enough to tackle. The report, The Ignored Pandemic: The Dual Crisis of Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19, showed the number of calls made by survivors to domestic violence hotlines in ten countries during the first months of lockdown. The data reveals a 25 – 111 percentage surge; in Argentina (25%), Colombia (79%), Tunisia (43%), China (50%), Somalia (50%), South Africa (69%), UK (25%), Cyprus (39%), Italy (73%) and the largest increase in Malaysia where calls surged by over 111%