Supporting health and economic well-being of women for an inclusive, sustainable and equitable post-COVID-19 recovery in Guinea

The COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to control it have threatened livelihoods, introduced new workplace risks and made unstable work relationships even more precarious, especially for women. This project aims to design and implement strategies that put women’s health and economic well-being at the centre of COVID-19 recovery efforts and future emergency preparedness and response in Guinea. It will analyze the underlying causes of current policy inertia, co-create a gender-sensitive multi-sectoral policy framework and produce scientific publications and training curriculum for decision-makers. The project will ensure that institutional actors responsible for preparation, response and recovery from health emergencies proactively include gender-transformative and multi-sector measures in the design and implementation of health and economic policies.

This project is funded under Women’s health and economic empowerment for a COVID-19 Recovery that is Inclusive, Sustainable and Equitable (Women RISE), an initiative of IDRC, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Its aim is to support global action-oriented, gender-transformative research by teams of researchers from low- and middle-income countries and Canada.