How Can Social protection enhance Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Rural Women and Girls?

The CSW63 side event aims to:

1. Raise awareness on gender-sensitive social protection for rural women’s economic empowerment, poverty reduction, gender equality and food security and nutrition.
2. Discuss how rural women’s participation in social assistance schemes, such as cash transfers and public works programmes enable women to earn wages, accumulate assets and cope with shocks.
3. Share experiences and lessons from effective practices, innovative strategies in enhancing gender equality and empowerment rural women and girls through social protection.
4. Highlight policies and programmes from Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa that focus on rural women in social protection interventions.
5. Present the newly released Toolkit on Gender-Sensitive Social Protection Programmes to combat Rural Poverty and Hunger.

• Concept note and programme
• FAO Technical Guidance Toolkit on Gender-Sensitive Social Protection to Combat Rural Poverty and Hunger