GRASSP: Measuring equality
Current evidence and future recommendations
Highlights
Social protection programmes can profoundly improve people’s lives, including by advancing gender equality. As part of a multi-year research project, funded by the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office, UNICEF Innocenti conducted studies in nine countries – Angola, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico, the United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay and Viet Nam. The project, Gender-Responsive and Age-Sensitive Social Protection (GRASSP), highlighted the ways social protection programmes can eradicate harmful gender norms.
In addition to the country-based research, the project delved into questions of methodology, programme design, policy integration and cost-effectiveness analysis. The results are presented in these four working papers:
- Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Gender-responsive Social Protection: Current Evidence and Future Recommendations, presents cost-effectiveness review of social assistance interventions linked to health, education, and women’s employment outcomes.
- Measuring Gender Equality: Review of Existing Measures and Reflections for Future Research presents insight into how concepts of equality can be quantitatively measured for research and evaluation.
- Applying the Gender Integration Continuum to Social Protection: A Guidance Note for Assessing the Level of Gender Integration in Social Protection Policies and Programmes presents a tool to assess gender and inequality needs so they can be embedded in social protection policies and programmes.
- Institutionalizing Gender in Social Protection Policy presents findings from five political economy analyses from the GRASSP project.
