Gender Sensitive Policies to Enhance Food Security and Expand Wage Employment
IWWAGE-LEAD at Krea University
This policy brief by IWWAGE draws on secondary research to suggest recommendations for (a) expanding wage opportunities for women, and (b) ensuring food security and nutrition.
Insights
Key recommendations include:
- MGNREGA: Expanding number of workdays, 50 percent all-women worksites, differential pay for disadvantaged women, focus on single women, enforce creche facilities
- Food security: Home delivery of hot meals, add eggs and milk in diet, expand food package under PDS to fortify diets, temporary ration cards to tide over the crisis"
Resource link
Interested in joining PULSE for Development? Register here.
