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Tuesday, Jun 29, 2021 at 9:00 AM to Wednesday, Jun 30, 2021 at 4:00 PM ICT
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The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed and increased the vulnerabilities faced by women and has underlined the need for meaningful and lasting solutions. With Covid-19, a multitude of repercussions have emerged from growing injustice and gender inequalities for women workers, economic hardships and indebtedness, to increasing unpaid care and domestic work and rising gender-based violence.
Social protection is one of the most powerful tools for governments to reduce inequality, vulnerability and poverty. It is an essential pillar of redistributive policies when it puts money that has been gathered through progressive taxation into the hands of those who have less. If designed with a gender lens, social protection can make a substantial contribution to gender equality and the empowerment of women. An ASEAN collective response to Covid-19 is needed to reflect more inclusive gender transformative policies, where women and girls are included in the conversations to empower them to reap full rights and benefits in the workplace and beyond.
Objectives:
The event will bring together women’s organizations, gender and women affairs experts, social protection experts, national and international organizations, civil society organizations, UN agencies, ASEAN Committee on Women, ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Social Welfare and Development, relevant Ministerial bodies, and individuals interested in the cause of women’s empowerment and advancement.
https://www.oxfam.org
Oxfam is a global movement of millions of people who share the belief that, in a world rich in resources, poverty is not inevitable. Our vision is a just world without poverty. We want a world where people enjoy their rights as full citizens; where every woman and man are empowered, valued and treated equally; where individuals can influence decisions affecting their lives. Across the Mekong region, Oxfam is implementing a social protection program working through local partners supporting informal and marginalized workers to organize and advocate for equitable access to social protection for all. Supported by the Belgium Directorate General Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid.
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This session will hear different stakeholders on how social protection can empower women, how social protection systems can be more gender transformative and gender aware, and perspectives on how social protection can advance gender equality and address women’s needs, especially with post Covid-19 recovery.
Roundtable discussion and Q&A
Moderator: Ms. Lilian Mercado, Regional Director Asia
Speakers:
Case Study and Q&A
Case study of Mongolia by H.E. Ariunzaya Ayush, Minister for Labor and Social Protection of Mongolia
This session will present the role played by UCDW in causing women’s economic and health vulnerability and as a factor of social exclusion, and ways to address UCDW via social protection. The session will also look at the impact of Covid-19 on UCDW and relief mechanisms.
Join this session to network with other participants in the region. You will have the opportunity to connect with randomly selected participants in the language of your choice.
The session will look at financing methods (through government revenues and/or contributions) and investment scenarios for social protection schemes aimed at responding to women’s needs, and their advantages and challenges. The session aims to also share best practices in creating fiscal space for social protection that invest in a care economy as an opportunity to ‘build forward better’ through sustained care systems.
Moderator: Ms. Kathy Richards, Oxfam in Laos Country Manager
Case study of the Philippines care ordinance by Mayor Attorney Melchor Mergal, Mayor of the City of Salcedo Eastern Samar
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Tuesday, Jun 29, 2021 at 9:00 AM to Wednesday, Jun 30, 2021 at 4:00 PM ICT
