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Governments and development partners are rapidly responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, but gender must be considered across all response and recovery efforts.  

USAID Land for Prosperity Activity and Colombia’s Land Restitution Unit delivered workshops to empower rural women about property rights, land ownership, the care economy, and gender-based violence.

USAID is strengthening women’s rights to land and resources so that women may use these rights for concrete economic, social, and political opportunities.

The Kenya Water and Sanitation Civil Society Network and the African Civil Society Network on Water and Sanitation launched the Sex for Water—Promoting Safe Space for Girls and Young Women in Kibera project.

The USAID Integrated WASH Response and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence is working directly with communities in South Sudan to improve access to safe water and sanitation.

USAID’s Clean Air Catalyst program, with help from USAID’s Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Hub commissioned a gender analysis for air pollution in the transport sector in Indore, India—a CAC pilot city of 2 million people.

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference featured USAID in an official side-event showcasing the U.S. Government’s commitment and approach to gender-responsive climate action.

USAID and NASA are working with partners to use Earth observation data on crops and growing conditions to inform the design and implementation of gender-responsive, index-based insurance in East Africa.

In the Philippines, women are leading the way in reducing plastic waste pollution by creating circular economies where waste is used and reused as a resource.

In February 2021, the UNICEF and United Nations Population Fund predicted that there may be an additional two million cases of female genital mutilation/cutting over the next decade as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.