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This article examines the impact of a disability-inclusive intervention on learning outcomes for girls with disabilities in Kenya. It summarises the pre-existing circumstances and the project implemented by the non-governmental organisation. It provides important insights into the process, emphasising the importance of understanding how contextual realities, such as gender and poverty, intersect with disability and impact access to education and the process of integrating children with disabilities into mainstream schools.

This resource explains how gender inequality affects the extent and patterns of different dimensions of poverty in forcibly displaced populations. It also explores how conflict and displacement affect gender norms and the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) and child marriage for women and girls. It provides a set of recommendations for the design and implementation of policies and programmes looking at improving safety and providing economic opportunities for displaced women.

This guide helps tax professionals consider key questions on gender while designing tax programmes. The purpose of this guide is to share learnings with donors. It refers to two categories of support that development actors may provide to governments in partner countries: 

This document provides an overview of challenges faced by people with disabilities during pandemic responses. It also provides recommendations to policymakers about how to improve disability inclusion in these responses.

Gender-based violence (GBV) shelters provide secure accommodation for women and children who are at risk of or have experienced GBV. This document provides a summary of the evidence and lessons learned on the management of GBV shelters, focusing on evidence from East Africa and drawing on lessons from low- and middle-income countries globally.

This resource summarises evidence on violence against women and girls (VAWG) and intersectionality. It shares evidence on which groups of women are at increased risk of violence due to multiple discriminations or disadvantages. It also explains how to prevent the most marginalised and excluded groups, including lesbian and bisexual women, women living with disabilities, and women living with HIV from experiencing violence.

This resource summarises learnings in preventing violence against women and girls (VAWG). It outlines the challenges in delivering and scaling up evidence-based VAWG prevention activities. It also presents external challenges, key conclusions and recommended priorities for the field of VAWG prevention. 

This policy brief presents findings from a World Bank’s research programme focused on gendered dimensions of forced displacement and poverty. It looks at how poverty intersects with gender and forced displacement and outlines implications for policy, programmes and data collection. It explains the importance of the context and the impact it has on efforts to promote economic opportunities and livelihoods, social protection, combatting intimate partner violence or access to services like health and education. 

This resource examines multidimensional poverty among displaced populations. It brings together three key issues: multidimensional poverty, forced displacement and gender. The analysis builds on the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) from Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan, which examines the situation faced by women and men in forcibly displaced households.