Rethinking the Future of Women’s Empowerment: Gender-Based Violence & COVID-19
- Partner: FHI 360
- Publication Type: Blog
- Date: December 1, 2020
- Team: Ania Chaluda (FHI 360) and Iman El Shayeb (FHI 360)
- Recommended Citation: Chaluda, Ania (FHI 360) and Iman El Shayeb (FHI 360). "Rethinking the Future of Women's Empowerment: Gender-Based Violence & COVID-19," The SEEP Network (blog), December 1, 2020. https://seepnetwork.org/Blog-Post/Rethinking-the-Future-of-Womens-Empowerment-Gender-Based-Violence-COVID-19.
Over the last six years, FHI 360 and sponsor organizations have held annual Gender 360 Summits to highlight the importance of addressing gender-based violence (GBV) and overall gender and social norms as means to empower women. At the most recent virtual Gender 360 Summit in June 2020, speakers from around the world came together to corroborate and express their deep concern of rising GBV in the age of COVID-19. Due to physical containment, as well as socio-psychological stress related to the economic crisis that resulted from the lockdown, violence towards women is even more common now than before the pandemic.
This blog concludes a two-part series – co-produced by FHI 360 and MarketShare Associates – on Rethinking the Future of Women’s Empowerment in response to the global pandemic. In this blog, we look at the current state of gender-based violence in Egypt, where incidents of sexual violence and harassment are widespread, and reporting them is difficult. (The first part in our series explores COVID-19’s impact on women’s economic engagement in Egypt).
