Executive summary: the gendered experience of close-to-community providers in Lebanon

This brief (read it here) summarises a report produced by the team at American University of Beirut. It was produced as part of the Lebanon strand of the ‘The gendered experience of close-to-community providers in fragile and shock-prone settings during the COVID-19 pandemic’ study (more on that work here).

The report concludes that male and female close-to-community providers have very different lived experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Lebanon, with women often disadvantaged in terms of their family, social, legal and professional lives. Recommendations are outlined as to how some of these disadvantages might be addressed.

Download the brief here

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Image: The IRC provides emergency cash relief to vulnerable people in Lebanon, and has launched an emergency response in Beirut. Photo: IRC