Women's Financial Resiliency as it Relates to COVID-19

(This list complements our collection of Sex-Disaggregated Covid-19 Data Resources.)

Advocacy

• 4 key actions to include women’s needs in the COVID-19 response, UN Women video
• 8 Ways to Ensure Gender Equality is at the Center of Responses to COVID-19, Save the Children Blog
• 10 Ways the Private Sector Can Build Back with a Feminist Economy, Kauwel Qazi and Sarah Zoen, Oxfam America
• An intersectional Approach to a Pandemic? Gender Data, Disaggregation and COVID-19, Natalie Cleveland, Data2x Coordinator
• Breaking Down Silos for Gender Equality in COVID-19 Responses,  3D Program for Girls and Women
• Building Resilience: How to Ensure Women Are Not Left Behind as a Result of Covid-19, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President & CEO of Women’s World Banking
• The coronavirus is not gender-blind, nor should we be, Caren Grown and Carolina Sánchez-Páramo, World Bank Group
• COVID-19 and Gender Equality: A Call to Action for the Private Sector, The Women’s Empowerment Principles
• COVID-19 And Women's Economic Empowerment, Brief from the coalition for Women's Economic Empowerment & Equality (CWEEE) 
• COVID-19 Exposes Risks and Opportunities in Kenya's Gig Economy, Josephine Kibe, Rani Deshpande, Lucy Kaari
• COVID is hurting women economically, but governments have the tools to offset the pain, Caroline Freund and Iva Ilieva Hamel, World Bank
• Delivering on the potential of digitized G2P: Driving women’s financial inclusion and empowerment through Indonesia’s Program Keluarga Harapan, Women's World Banking Report
• Ease heavy burden of women affected by COVID-19 pandemic, Khara Jabola-Carolus, Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women Executive Director
• The Economic Impact of Coronavirus on Women is Devastating and Exacerbating Gender Inequality, says Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, Alexandra Hutzler, Newsweek
• Ensuring respect for gender equality in the Covid-19 crisis, Rachel Hargreaves, Good Work Campaigns and Research Officer
• Gender and the Coronavirus Outbreak, Julia Smith, Simon Fraser University Health Sciences Research Associate
• How can inclusive finance help in a pandemic? Tamara Cook, FSD Kenya Chief Executive Officer
• How to Rebuild Global Business for Good, WEConnect
• Ideas for a Pro-Poor and Pro-Women Approach to COVID-19, Lan Mercado, Oxfam International Asia Regional Director
• In a World with COVID-19, Gender Equality Matters More Than Ever, Janti Soeripto, CEO and President at Save the Children US
• Invest in Gender Data for COVID-19 Recovery and SDG Progress, Data2x
• The Pandemic’s Gender Imperative, Ann Linde, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden and Arancha González, Minister of Foreign Affairs European Union & Cooperation of Spain
• Putting women and girls’ safety first in Africa’s response to COVID-19, Chuku Chuku, Adamon Mukasa and Yasin Yenice of the African Development Bank
• Supporting African women through the economic consequences of COVID-19, Amy Copley, Alison Decker and Fannie Delavelle, World Bank
• Supporting Women Throughout the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Emergency Response and Economic Recovery, the Gender Innovation Lab
• Three ways to contain COVID-19’s impact on informal women workers, Rachel Moussié of Wiego, and Silke Staab of UN Women
• Transformative Policy Solutions to Support Women-led Businesses in Africa in a Post COVID-19 World, UN Women and ImpactHER
• Why we need gender perspectives in our global solutions to COVID-19, Claire Dowling, European Institute of Peace, Women, Peace and Security Officer
• Why WHO needs a feminist economic agenda, Asha Herten-Crabb and Dr. Sara E Davies in the Lancet
• Women in Latin America and the Caribbean face greater risks from the Coronavirus, Claudia Piras, Interamerican Development Bank (Spanish)
• Women Leaders’ Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 and the Future issues call to put women and girls at the centre of response efforts, UN Women press release

Discussion:

• A gender-sensitive response is missing from the COVID-19 crisis, Jamila Razzaq, World Learning, for the Brookings Institute
• A Majority of India’s Poor Women May Miss COVID-19 PMJDY Cash Transfers, Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner, Charity Troyer Moore, Elena Stacy
• A woman in a Myanmar village tries to rescue her small business from the COVID-19 pandemic, Shwe Mya Thein of  Lutheran World Federation, and Lesly Lotha of UN Women
• Banking on women and the underserved during COVID-19, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO Women's World Banking
• The buck stops with women, Anne Gachoka, BFA Global
• CAN COVID-19 SPUR GENDER BALANCE IN FINANCE?, Oliver Wyman
• Continuity in a crisis: exploring reactions to the Covid-19 outbreak among providers of financial services for low-income women, Andy Woolnough and Ade Ashaye, Women’s World Banking
• The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism, Helen Lewis, The Atlantic Staff Writer 
• COVID-19: How is the Pandemic Affecting your Work and the Clients you Serve? FinDev Gateway Blog
• COVID-19 requires gender-equal responses to save economies, Isabelle Durant and Pamela Coke-Hamilton, The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development 
• COVID-19: Why Policymakers Need A Gender-focused Approach for Health and Economic Recover, Julia Arnold, Elizabeth Anderson, Smriti Rao & Sarah Gammage
• The detrimental effects of COVID-19 and lockdown on the livelihoods of female-headed households in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, Renée Hunter, Mishkah Abrahams and Lelethu Bodlani, Cenfri
• Digital Financial Services and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Are We in Danger of Leaving Low-income Women Further Behind?, Elizabeth Kellison, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Female-headed households bear the brunt of Covid-19 as livelihood gaps increase, Veronica Kamanga-Njikho & Qandigul Tajik, UNICEF
• Financial inclusion and access to funds to address emergencies in LAC, Carolina Trivelli, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
• Financial Inclusion Is Going Digital. Can Women Follow? By Jonathan Fu of the University of Zurich & Sonja Kelly of Women's World Banking
• Food Security and COVID-19: How Financial Inclusion Can Support Livelihoods, Laura Schroeder of the Center for Financial Inclusion
• From where I stand: “Domestic workers should also be entitled to a salary during times of crisis”, Ana Paula Soares
• Gender and Data Resources Related to COVID-19, Data2X
• How sex-disaggregated data can help understand Covid-19 better, Dr. Charu Sharma and Palak Sharm
• How Social Media Is Fueling Women’s Entrepreneurship in Myanmar, Yosha Gupta digital financial inclusion specialist, CGAP
• How will COVID 19 affect women and girls in low - and middle - income countries? David Evans, The Center for Global Development, Senior Fellow
• In Georgia, women farmers show solidarity amid COVID-19, UN Women
• Keeping up the drumbeat for women’s rights and gender data amid COVID-19, Sarah Boyd, Data2X Director of Global Advocacy
• Last Mile Webinar, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
• New Research on Mapping Gender Data Gaps in the SDG Era (Webinar), Data2x
• Tanzanian women’s savings and loan groups in flux during COVID-19, Jessica Ott, Global Voices
• The Pandemic Will Not Deter Us, Sofia Huizar and Camila Montañez, Pro Mujer
• Paying attention to women’s needs and leadership will strengthen COVID-19 response, UN Women Blog
• Playing the Long Game: How a Gender Lens Can Mitigate Harm Caused by Pandemics, Megan O’Donnell, The Center for Global Development Assistant Director, Gender Program and Senior Policy Analyst
• The Power of Local Women: An Innovative Social Capital Model Addresses Rural Financial Inclusion in India During COVID-19, Prabhat Labh, CEO of Grameen Foundation India, and Sourajit Aiyer
• Responding to Epidemics With Courage and Hope, Emily Janoch, CARE Director for Knowledge Management and Learning
• Support women-owned businesses for economic growth in an uncertain world, Philippe Le Houérou, IFC Chief Executive Officer
• Tracking the Gender Impact of COVID-19, Mayra Buvinic, Lorenz Noe and Eric Swanson, Center for Global Development
• Understanding gender and information inequalities through five women impacted by COVID-19, Nnenna Nwakanma World Wide Web Foundation
• UN Women on the importance of female leadership in fighting coronavirus (video), UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka speaks to the FT's Vanessa Kortekaas
• Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 and Women’s Economic Empowerment, FinEquity
• Voices of women's organizations on COVID-19: April 2020 sub-regional consultations, UN Women
• Why Gender-Sensitive Social Protection Is Critical to the COVID-19 Response in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Melissa Hidrobo, Neha Kumar and Shalini Roy of the International Food Policy Research Institute, Tia Palermo of the University of Buffalo and Amber Peterman of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Women in the homeplace, Anisha Singh, Busara Center
• Women’s Access to Cash Transfers in Light of COVID-19: The Case of Pakistan, Shelby Bourgault and Megan O'Donnell of the Center for Global Development
• Women’s Groups and COVID-19: Challenges, Engagement, and Opportunities, Thomas de Hoop, Sapna Desai, Garima Siwach, Chinmaya Holla, Yulia Belyakova, Sohini Paul, Roopal Singh, Evidence Consortium on Women's Groups

Guidance:

• 10 lessons from the COVID-19 frontline for a more gender-equal world, Katja Iversen, President/CEO Women Deliver
• A first look at gendered impacts of COVID-19 on livelihoods, Renée Hunter, Mishkah Abrahams and Lelethu Bodlani
• Addressing the Economic Fallout of COVID-19: Pathways and Policy Option for a Gender-Responsive Recovery, UN Women
• Checklist for COVID-19 response, Åsa Regnér, UN Women Deputy Executive Director
• Collecting and Using Gender-Disaggregated Data for Financial Policymaking, UNSGSA
• Continuity in a crisis: exploring reactions to the Covid-19 outbreak among providers of financial services for low-income women, Andy Woolnough, Global Head of Advocacy and Ade Ashaye, Executive Vice President, Women’s World Banking
• COVID-19: A Gender Lens, United Nations Population Fund, Technical Brief
• COVID-19 and gender: What do we know; what do we need to know? Laura Turquet and Sandrine Koissy-Kpein of UN Women
• COVID-19: For Investors, Time to Double-Down on Gender Lens Investing, Anne-Marie Lévesque, Head, FinDev Canada
• COVID-19, gender and data resources, Sarah Boyd, Director of Global Advocacy, Data2X 
• COVID-19’s Gender Implications Examined in Policy Brief from CARE
• COVID-19: Gendered Impacts of the Pandemic in Palestine and Implications for Policy and Programming, UN Women Palestine
• COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean: How to incorporate women and gender equality in the management of the crisis response, ONU Mujeres América Latina y el Caribe (in Spanish)
• COVID-19 & Inclusive Finance: Lessons from Past Crises, CGAP Resources
• Explainer: How COVID-19 impacts women and girls, UNWomen
• FSD Zambia Launches COVID-19 Guidelines for Savings Groups, Mwebantu
• Gender Implications of COVID-19 outbreaks in Development and Humanitarian Settings, CARE
• Global Rapid Gender Analysis for COVID-19, CARE
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality, NBER Working Paper Series, Titan M. Alon, Matthias Doepke, Jane Olmstead-Rumsey and Michèle Tertilt
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Women, United Nations Policy Brief 
• MERS Guidance in Response to COVID-19, The SEEP Network
• Phone Surveys to Understand Gendered Impacts of COVID-19: A Cautionary Note,  Muzna Alvi, Shweta Gupta, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Claudia Ringler of the Environment, Production and Technology Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute
• Policy Framework for Leveraging Digital Financial Services to Respond to Global Emergencies – Case of COVID-19, Alliance for Financial Inclusion
• Protecting Women using DFS during the Pandemic, Sophie Romana, Consultant for Strategic Impact Advisors
• Savings Groups and COVID-19, the SEEP Network
• Savings Group Risk Mitigation, Support, and Engagement in Relation to COVID-19, CARE
• Surveys show that COVID-19 has gendered effects in Asia and the Pacific, UN Women
• Ten things you can learn from women’s resilience that will help you stay strong in the time of COVID-19, UN Women
• Three ways to contain COVID-19’s impact on informal women workers, Rachel Moussié of WIEGO, and Silke Staab of UN Women
• Towards a gender-smart response in the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis, Wendy Teleki, Head of We-Fi Secretaria
• Tracking the Gender Impact of COVID-19: An Indicator Framework, data2x
• Women in Rural and Agricultural Livelihoods Facing COVID-19, Antonique Koning, Jamie Anderson, and Yasmin Bin-Humam from CGAP
• Women in the homeplace- 7 ways to make work more inclusive during a pandemic, Busara Center