Assessing gender responsiveness of COVID-19 response plans for populations in conflict-affected humanitarian emergencies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated rapid development of preparedness and response plans to quell transmission and prevent illness across the world. Increasingly, there is an appreciation of the need to consider equity issues in the development and implementation of these plans, not least with respect to gender, given the demonstrated differences in the impacts both of the disease and of control measures on men, women, and non-binary individuals. Humanitarian crises, and particularly those resulting from conflict or violence, exacerbate pre-existing gender inequality and discrimination. To this end, there is a particularly urgent need to assess the extent to which COVID-19 response plans, as developed for conflict-affected states and forcibly displaced populations, ar

SUBMITTER: Asi YM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8842977 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature