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    MEASURING WOMEN’S

    The COVID-19 pandemic has had severe and gendered impacts in Bangladesh. Women are bearing the increased unpaid care workload due to the closures of schools and families staying at home. Women are also losing their means to earn an income – workers in the informal sector, of which 91.8% of women’s jobs are in, are losing their jobs rapidly.1 At the same time as increasing these burdens, for some women the pandemic has reduced access to crisis support services and other networks. Our study looked at the roles women played in shaping the response to these and other challenges during the pandemic. Overall, the research found there

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    Analysis and research are part of the process of determining, justifying, and evaluating actions in humanitarian settings. The insights gleaned from research that shape decision-making processes need to be based on the priorities and lived experiences of communities and researchers from societies affected by conflict, disaster, and global inequality. The Grand Bargain signatories acknowledged this in relation to the “participation revolution” priority, with signatories affirming the need to “include the people affected by humanitarian crises and their communities in our decisions to be certain that the humanitarian response is relevant, timely, effective, and efficient.” Link: https://humanitarianadvisorygroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/HAG-HH2-PPLL-Stories-for-change_FINAL.pdf