NEWS & EVENTS

This webinar explored the potential role of social protection to respond to the ‘shadow pandemic’ of violence against women and girls during COVID-19 in the Indo-Pacific.

Domestic abuse has spiked under COVID-19. Cash transfers are no panacea, but research shows they reduce violence and can be adapted.

This CSW63 side event hosted by UN Women, Sida and the Prime Minister's Office (Tanzania) explored how cash transfers can help reduce intimate partner violence against women.

Vox reports on a collaborative study in Bangladesh: Cash alone didn’t help. But group training for nutrition, with home visits, did.

NPR Goats & Soda reports on a collaborative study in Bangladesh that found improving the economic status of women decreases violence when women also took part in an educational program that helped elevate their social standing.

This webinar reviews some of the new and ongoing work conducted under the Transfer Project, a multi-organizational research and learning initiative with a focus on Ghana, Jordan and Lebanon.

Quartz covers collaborative work showing cash transfers empower young women to make more far-sighted choices in love and education.

In this webinar, we describe a framework for potential pathways through which transfers can affect IPV, then showcase three PIM-funded studies that explore important knowledge gaps on the impacts of transfer programs on IPV.