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Gaining Or Losing Ground: Ensuring That Post-COVID-19 Transportation Serves The Needs Of Women In Low-income Sub-saharan African Cities

Published: December 2020

Main topic: Gender, Crisis response, COVID-19

Study countrie(s): South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa

Written by: Gail Jennings, Emma Arogundade, Heather Allen

Study type: Research report

This research looks at the unforeseen risks and impacts of the rapid responses in Sub-Saharan African cities due to the COVID-19 pandemic that affected, and will continue to affect urban women with low incomes, and makes suggestions on short- and longer-term ways forward to drive gender equity goals and impacts.