From education to entrepreneurship, global recovery efforts need to pay
particular attention to the needs of women and girls.
When the 2008 recession hit, few asked how stimulus measures would affect women compared with men.
Teachers matter enormously to student learning. Teachers deliver academic knowledge. 
Teachers impart model socioemotional skills. Good teachers boost students’ long-term life outcomes. Teachers can inspire (and in another demonstration of their importance, in some cases, sadly, teachers can disappoint or even abuse).
Muskanben Vohara and her group of women weavers in Gujarat’s Anand district were 
overcome with worry when the lockdown was announced to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
Woman worker in leather goods factory in Bogota, Colombia
Firms and workers continue to be deeply impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic as it enters its 
eleventh month. Building on insights from COVID-19 Business Pulse Surveys, the first blog post in this series described the implications of the crisis for firm sales, employment, and financial performance, while the second discussed record levels of uncertainty and firms’ coping strategies, including adoption of digital technology. This third and final part of the series focuses on public policy responses.
Despite contributing the least to the climate crisis, Sub-Saharan Africa, home to over 1 billion 
people, continues to suffer some of the worst consequences of a changing climate. In 2019, we saw the catastrophic impacts of Cyclone Idai on millions of people in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, and in 2020, locusts caused widespread food insecurity in the amidst of a global pandemic.
Evidence from outbreaks similar to COVID-19 indicates that women and girls can be affected in particular ways, and in some areas, face more negative impacts than men. In fact, there is a risk that gender gaps could widen during and after the pandemic and that gains in women’s and girls’ accumulation of human capital, economic empowerment and voice and agency, built over the past decades, could be reversed. The World Bank Group is working to ensure that projects responding to COVID-19 consider the pandemic’s different impacts on men and women.
Pakistan’s schools are reopening again today after a nearly uninterrupted 11-month hiatus. In March 2020, the Government of Pakistan closed all schools as part of a nationwide lockdown, prompting the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (MoFE&PT) to seek education alternatives to ensure learning continuity.
Netherlands for the World Bank 
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