The Impact of COVID-19 on SRHR: Youth-led Perspectives and Solutions for a Gender-Equal World

By Women Deliver

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on girls and women, in all their intersecting identities, and has exposed and exacerbated gender inequalities worldwide, critically undermining progress across every measure of development. Health sector supply issues, coupled with disruptions in public transportation and stay-at-home orders, have created significant challenges to accessing SRH services, information, and products, particularly for girls, women, and marginalized communities in low- and middle-income countries. How do we move forward to ensure the progress made on gender equality and realizing SRHR is not lost?

Led and conceptualized by youth advocates, this event will center Women Deliver’s research exploring the effects of the pandemic on access to SRHR services, information, and products in LMICs, with a focus on India, Kenya, and Nigeria. This report not only brings together evidence from global and national experts, it gathers perspectives from youth advocates. This study is one of the first of its kind to directly highlight the first-hand experiences of adolescents and youth on the gendered impact of COVID-19 on SRHR.

This event will feature a multi-stakeholder, intergenerational discussion on global and country-level perspectives of the research’s key findings and policy recommendations.