Putting girls at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic response in Africa

Every day, adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa face barriers caused by cultural norms, practices, and biases that limit their access to economic and social opportunities relative to boys, including health care and education services. At the World Bank our Human Capital Plan for Africa places wome...

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Published inAfrica in Focus [BLOG]
Main Author Murthi, Mamta
Format Web Resource
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington The Brookings Institution 05.03.2021
Subjects
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Education
Empowerment
Girls
Human capital
Investments
Midwifery
Pandemics
Reproductive health
Womens health
Africa
Nigeria
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Summary:Every day, adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa face barriers caused by cultural norms, practices, and biases that limit their access to economic and social opportunities relative to boys, including health care and education services. At the World Bank our Human Capital Plan for Africa places women and girls at the center of an integrated approach to drive transformational change. Since its launch in 2019, we have already added over $2.2 billion of new investments in African women’s agency, health, education, and employment opportunities. [...]in the Sahel region, where 1 in 2 girls is married before the age of 18, the Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend project is empowering women and adolescent girls across nine countries by helping adolescent girls through providing sexual and reproductive health knowledge, which helps keep girls in school, expand their economic opportunities, and prevent gender-based violence.
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