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Eldis
has launched a Gender and Social Protection key issues page
written with Francie Lund from Women in Informal Employment-Globalizing
and Organising (WIEGO).
Social
protection interventions play a vital role in reducing people's
vulnerability by preventing households falling into poverty
(or moving further into poverty) through consumption smoothing;
promoting growth in the economy (e.g. through spending money
in the local community with cash transfers); and providing social
remedial measures.
Thinking around the role of social protection as a welfare approach
to development has been replaced with the recognition of its
role in contributing to wider economic growth – in other
words, as an investment. But what do we know about the ways
in which different social security systems may reproduce, or
confront, deeply entrenched social, cultural and economic patterns
of gender inequality?
This key issue page aims to provide an introduction to understanding
the gender dimensions of social protection, in particular
focusing on the informal labour force, conditional transfers
in Latin America, social pensions and public works schemes.
It offers a feature article on women, work and poverty, a
set of key full text readings on issues such as the gender
dimensions of social protection, provision of social security
for informal workers, Conditional cash transfers: experience
from Latin America, Social pensions and Public works schemes.
It is a valuable resource for finding information on this
issue and highlighting the importance of gender in the design
of social policy.
You can access the Key Issues Page at http://www.eldis.org/gender/socialprotection.htm
 Contact
Rebecca Holmes
Eldis
Gender Resource Guide Editor
Institute of Development Studies, UK
Email: R.Holmes@ids.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1273 877426
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