Report

Feminist Priorities for Extending and Adapting Social Protection in Africa 2022

Findings from a policy dialogue and consultation

Highlights

Gender inequality is a key dimension of poverty, vulnerability and exclusion. Girls and women are disproportionately likely to live in poverty, particularly adolescent girls and women, who are 25 per cent more likely to live in poverty than men and boys. As a set of policies and programmes aimed at preventing and protecting people facing poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion, social protection is a critical right for every child facing these gendered experiences – and also for women, parents and communities at large.