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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

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Kalyani Raghunathan

Kalyani Raghunathan is Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in New Delhi, India. Her research lies at the intersection of agriculture, gender, social protection, and public health and nutrition, with a specific focus on South Asia and Africa. 

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Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion

Flor Paz

Senior Research Analyst

Flor Paz

Bio

Flor Paz is a Senior Research Analyst with the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, and is based at IFPRI-Washington, DC.

Publications

Publications

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Social protection and gender: policy, practice and research

2024Hidrobo, Melissa; Peterman, Amber; Kumar, Neha; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica; Roy, Shalini; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Paz, Flor
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Social protection and gender: policy, practice and research

Gender considerations in the design and delivery of social protection programs are critical to meet overall objectives of reducing poverty and vulnerability. We provide an overview of the policy discourse and research on social protection and gender in low- and middle-income countries, focusing on social assistance, social care, and social insurance. Taking a ‘review of reviews’ approach, we aggregate findings from rigorous evaluations on women’s health, economic, empowerment, and violence impacts. We show there is robust evidence that social assistance has beneficial effects across all four domains. In addition, there is emerging evidence that social care has positive impacts on women’s economic outcomes, but scarce evidence of its impacts on other domains. Aggregated evidence on the impacts of social insurance are lacking. Key design elements facilitating positive impacts for women relate to gender targeting; quality complementary programming; replacing conditionalities with soft nudges; ensuring the value, frequency, and duration of benefits are sufficient; and gender-sensitive operational components. We close with a discussion of evidence gaps and priorities for future research.

Year published

2024

Authors

Hidrobo, Melissa; Peterman, Amber; Kumar, Neha; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica; Roy, Shalini; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Paz, Flor

Citation

Hidrobo, Melissa; Peterman, Amber; Kumar, Neha; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica; Roy, Shalini; Gilligan, Daniel O.; and Paz, Flor. 2024. Social protection and gender: policy, practice and research. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2257. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/144240

Keywords

Gender; Poverty; Social Protection; Vulnerability; Women’s Empowerment

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English

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Open Access

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Gender Equality

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Working Paper

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Needs and opportunities for measuring rural women’s empowerment in Guatemala: Possible applications of a Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)

2024Valiente, Regina; Heckert, Jessica; Paz, Flor; Cabnal, Edwin
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Needs and opportunities for measuring rural women’s empowerment in Guatemala: Possible applications of a Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)

Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is reflected across policy priorities at global and national levels. Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) seeks to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. Moreover, the Government of Guatemala, through the Presi-dential Secretariat for Women (SEPREM), has supported these priorities through the National Policy for the Promotion and Comprehensive Development of Women and the Equality of Opportunities Plan 2008-2023, particularly under its Equitable Economic and Productive Development policy line, which gives the agenda a thematic focus on women’s economic empowerment. Both policy instruments are designed to guide public institutions in achieving the goals that have been set by the Council of Minis-ters of Women of Central America and the Dominican Republic (COMMCA). Economic empowerment is one of the main lines of policy action under the Regional Policy on Gender Equality and Equity of SICA (PRIEG/SICA). As such, women’s economic empowerment is being prioritized at the national level in Guatemala, and also at the regional level across Central America and the Dominican Republic. La igualdad de género y el empoderamiento de las mujeres y niñas se ve reflejado en distintas prioridades de políticas a nivel global y local. El Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible 5 busca lograr la igualdad de género y empoderar a todas las mujeres y niñas. De forma correspondiente, el Gobierno de Guatemala por medio de la Secretaría Presidencial de la Mujer (Seprem) ha impulsado el tema, tanto a través de la Política Nacional de Promoción y Desarrollo Integral de las Mujeres y su Plan de Oportunidades PNPDIM-PEO 2008-2023, dentro el Eje de Desarrollo Económico y Productivo con equidad; así como también en la agenda temática de empoderamiento económico de las mujeres. Ambos instrumentos son orientadores de las instituciones públicas, a la vez que, dentro de las acciones que se han coordinado desde el Consejo de Ministras de la Mujer de Centroamérica y República Dominicana (COMMCA), el empoderamiento económico es uno de los ejes de la Política Regional de Igualdad y Equidad de Género del SICA (PRIEG/SICA). Así, el empoderamiento económico de las mujeres es una prioridad a nivel nacional en Guatemala, pero también a nivel regional.

Year published

2024

Authors

Valiente, Regina; Heckert, Jessica; Paz, Flor; Cabnal, Edwin

Citation

Valiente, Regina; Heckert, Jessica; Paz, Flor; and Cabnal, Edwin. 2024. Needs and opportunities for measuring rural women’s empowerment in Guatemala: Possible applications of a Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS). Project Note January 2024. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137514

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Guatemala

Keywords

Latin America; Central America; Northern America; Gender Equality; Women’s Empowerment; Policies; Development; Economic Aspects; Women; Sustainable Development Goals; Capacity Development

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136870 Source record

Project

Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

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Brief

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Honduras: The impact of COVID-19 and implications: Second report

2021Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio; Flores, Luis; Paz, Flor; Piñeiro, Valeria; Zandstra, Tamsin
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Honduras: The impact of COVID-19 and implications: Second report

Due to the global pandemic generated by COVID-19 the government of Honduras declared a “state of emergency” in February (“Estado de Emergencia en el Territorio Nacional a través del Decreto Ejecu-tivo Número PCM- 005-2020, 10 de febrero 2020). The country suffered the first confirmed COVID-19 case on March 12th, 2020. The first death was registered on March 26, 2020. This document updates a previous report (Díaz Bonilla, Laborde, and Piñeiro, 2021) on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food systems in Honduras. First, it brings up to date the evolution of the pandemic, using different indicators. Second, it summarizes the main responses, costs, and fi-nancing. Third, it updates the evolution of key variables up to the time of this writing (June 2021). Fourth, there is a more detailed analysis of the evolution of some food value chains that are central for food consumption in Honduras. Fifth, main results for 2021 and 2022 of previous modeling work are briefly presented. A final section discusses considerations in light of the updated analysis.

Year published

2021

Authors

Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio; Flores, Luis; Paz, Flor; Piñeiro, Valeria; Zandstra, Tamsin

Citation

Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio; Flores, Luis; Paz, Flor; Piñeiro, Valeria; and Zandstra, Tamsin. 2021. Honduras: The impact of COVID-19 and implications: Second report. LAC Working Paper 22. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134533

Country/Region

Honduras

Keywords

Central America; Latin America; Value Chains; Agricultural Value Chains; Policies; Covid-19; Health; Employment; Social Protection; Nutrition; Food Security; Social Safety Nets; Pandemics; Governance

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open Access

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134533 Source record

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Working Paper

Blogs

Policy seminar: Scaling up the new Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) tool
IFPRI Blog
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March 07, 2024

Policy seminar: Scaling up the new Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) tool

By Emily Myers, Flor Paz, and Jennifer Johnson

Research on gender and women’s empowerment in food systems and global development is central to IFPRI’s mission. Here we mark International Women’s Day (March 8)—with the theme “Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress”—with an account of our continuing efforts to develop and deploy metrics on women’s empowerment in agriculture. The 2015 adoption of Sustainable Development Goal […]

ANEW way forward: Strategies to promote women’s empowerment in farmer producer organizations
IFPRI Blog
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February 21, 2024

ANEW way forward: Strategies to promote women’s empowerment in farmer producer organizations

By Jessica Heckert, Kalyani Raghunathan, Agnes Quisumbing, Emma Fawcett, Emily Myers, Flor Paz, and Soumyajit Ray

Examining a promising avenue for development programs.

Events

From Research to Impact: Towards just and Resilient Agri-food Systems
IFPRI Program/Country Event

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October 9 to 12, 2023

From Research to Impact: Towards just and Resilient Agri-food Systems

Conference: October 09, 2023 – 9:00 AM to October 12, 2023 – 6:00 PM IST. IFPRI is participating in the 2023 annual CGIAR gender research conference will take place in New Delhi, India.

Funding Food System Transformation in Developing Countries: An example from Ethiopia
IFPRI Policy Seminar

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September 24, 2021, 8:00 – 9:30 am

Funding Food System Transformation in Developing Countries: An example from Ethiopia

Virtual Event: SEP 24, 2021- 08:00 AM to 09:30 AM EDT. This event will inform discussion of CGIAR work, developed for the UNFSS, on potential sources of funding for food systems transformation activities. 

Evento Virtual - Alimentación en tiempos de pandemia: realismo sin magia en ALC
IFPRI Policy Seminar

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June 2, 2020, 12:15 – 1:45 pm

Evento Virtual – Alimentación en tiempos de pandemia: realismo sin magia en ALC

América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) es uno de los principales contribuyentes a la seguridad alimentaria mundial y a los servicios ecosistémicos globales, incluidos el secuestro de CO2 y la biodiversidad. Sin embargo, la región también está sufriendo de degradación ambiental, particularmente a través de las altas tasas de deforestación. Además, ALC es la región […]

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News

August 03, 2020 | In the News

The campaign #RuralWomen, Women with Rights begins (Diario Rotativo) 

Diario Rotativo (Mexico) published an article on the campaign to recognize rural women, on July 30 the campaign #RuralWomen, Women with Rights. Rural women,  breadwinners during the health crisis, have added to their productive activities, the care, and attention to children who do not go to school, a gigantic overload of unpaid work. IFPRI along with many NGOs and […]