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Ginette Azcona, Antra Bhatt, Sara Davies, Sophie Harman, Julia Smith, and Clare Wenham (Eds.) : 2020 The present global threat to health security underscores the urgent need to accelerate progress on achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 and the need to massively scale up international cooperation to deliver on SDG 3. It also reveals what is less obvious, but no less urgent: how health emergencies such as COVID-19, and the response to them, can exacerbate gender inequality and derail... Source: UN Women Tags: Gender |
The State of Bangladesh’s Political Governance, Development, and Society: According to its Citizens The Asia Foundation : 2020 A national-level citizen perception survey was conducted to understand to gather citizens’ opinions on issues pertinent to political governance, development, and society. Principal themes of the survey included citizens’ perception of Bangladesh’s society, politics, and economy; perception of political governance and representation including awareness and expectations from local... Source: The Asia Foundation Tags: Access to information |
Sourcebook on the Foundations of Social Protection Delivery Systems Lindert, Kathy; Karippacheril, Tina George; Rodriguez Caillava, Inés; Nishikawa Chavez, Kenichi : 2020 Social protection delivery systems matter. Policy design and delivery systems have always worked hand in hand to yield meaningful programs and impacts. Countries offer a myriad of social programs, such as cash transfers, subsidies, childcare, training, or labor services, for which delivery is fragmented and navigation not easy for recipients. Simplifying fragmented processes and innovating... Source: World Bank Tags: Financial Inclusion |
Gender-Responsive Budgeting in India, Bangladesh and Rwanda: A Comparison Aditi Ratho : 2020 Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) is a targeted fiscal instrument that several developing countries have used to ensure that policy prescriptions to alleviate gender inequality translate into outputs by linking them to budgetary allocations. Although the concept was introduced in India, Bangladesh and Rwanda at around the same time (the early 2000s), the three countries have followed different... Source: ORF Occasional Paper 260, Observer Research Foundation Tags: Public Finance |
Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on South-East Asia United Nations : 2020 As in other parts of the world, the health, economic and political impact of COVID-19 has been significant across South-East Asia — hitting the most vulnerable the hardest. The pandemic has highlighted deep inequalities, shortfalls in governance and the imperative for a sustainable development pathway. And it has revealed new challenges, including peace and security. This report examines how... Source: United Nations Tags: Disaster Management |
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