This report is a background note to the poverty assessment for Cabo Verde. This report presents an overview of gender inequalities, status, trends, and drivers behind the observed outcomes. The quantitative...
Hemen Maternal and Children’s Specialty Medical Center (Hemen) was founded in 2008 by four female physicians to offer high-quality women’s reproductive and children’s healthcare services in Ethiopia. Hemen...
Women and men experience aging differently. Evidence from across the globe suggests that aging is not “gender-neutral”, but rather “gender-imbalanced”. Along with physical and physiological differences...
Gender significantly impacts health outcomes, influencing lifestyle, well-being, and healthcare access throughout a person’s life. Bridging gender gaps in health can enhance human capital and ensure equitable...
The development objective of Human Capital and Women and Girls’ Empowerment Project for Central African Republic is to enhance access to essential health services, education and employment opportunities...
This thematic note is part of a broader mixed-method study on gender inequalities in Madagascar, which intends to illustrate the key gender gaps in the country and shed light on the unique challenges that...
This Note analyses sexual harassment (SH) in public spaces as reported by women in Quetta city in the Balochistan province of Pakistan and is part of the World Bank's multimethod Women in the Workforce...
This report covers nine messages on Femicide trends and characteristics in Paraguay from 2019 to 2022.
Este informe abarca nueve mensajes sobre las tendencias y características del feminicidio en Paraguay entre 2019 y 2022.
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a persistent challenge with negative impacts not only for the survivors and their families, but all Peruvian society. There is a persistent gender gap in labor force participation...
This evaluation assesses the quality of the World Bank’s early response to the COVID-19 crisis and the initial steps toward recovery, focusing on the health and social response. It concentrates on the...
This report, Europe and Central Asia - Missing Women in the South Caucasus : Local perceptions and proposed solutions, discusses research conducted on skewed sex ratios in the South Caucasus. It discusses...
Every policy relies on explicit or implicit assumptions about how people make choices. Those assumptions typically rest on an idealized model of how people think, rather than an understanding of how everyday...
Every policy relies on explicit or implicit assumptions about how people make choices. Those assumptions typically rest on an idealized model of how people think, rather than an understanding of how everyday...
Every policy relies on explicit or implicit assumptions about how people make choices. Those assumptions typically rest on an idealized model of how people think, rather than an understanding of how everyday...
This brief focuses on the World Bank report entitled “Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity”, specifically as it pertains to the status of women in the Europe and Central Asia...
The Prevention and Mitigation of Sexual and Gender Based Violence in North and South Kivu Project development objective is to achieve a better organization for services to enhance the treatment and prevention...