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Latin America and the Caribbean Gender Innovation Lab (LACGIL)
Highlights
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Blog Sep 18, 2024
The gender wage gap in LAC is a persistent problem. Working women in the region earn, on average, 70 cents for every dollar earned by men. But this simple statistic does not tell the whole story.
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Policy Brief Jun 27, 2024
Policy interventions can help boost adolescent girls¡¯ aspirations and opportunities through exposure to role models, vocational training including life skills training, and conditional cash transfers.
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Policy Brief Jun 10, 2024
In Brazil, a peer-led intervention focused on sexual & reproductive health & students' aspirations at public high schools, resulted in significantly ??improved contraceptive use &??decreased teenage pregnancy rates.
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Blog May 14, 2024
The recent poverty assessment in Dominican Republic provides a detailed snapshot of the five challenges to overcome for achieving inclusive economic growth.
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Infographic Feb 29, 2024
Six facts to understand the reality of women in Latin America and the Caribbean
Women between 25 and 35 years of age are 7 percentage points more likely to be poor than men of the same age.
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Blog Feb 29, 2024
During the life cycle, poverty among men and women evolves differently. As individuals enter productive ages, poverty drops, but it does so at a faster rate for men than for women.
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Blog Feb 05, 2024
Andrea, like many others in Peru, endured the devastating impact of job loss in a nation heavily affected during the pandemic. Her situation worsened as she suffered violence at home.
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About the LACGIL
The LAC Gender Innovation Lab provides World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP operational teams, policy makers, and development practitioners with knowledge to promote gender equality and drive change in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Multimedia
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Video Mar 02, 2024
LinkedIn noticias Am¨¦rica Latina spoke with Paola Buitrago-Hernandez and Hugo Rolando ?opo Aguilar, economists from the World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP, about gender and poverty in Latin America.
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Infographic Feb 28, 2024
Six facts to understand the reality of women in Latin America and the Caribbean
Women between 25 and 35 years of age are 7 percentage points more likely to be poor than men of the same age.
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Video Dec 11, 2023
Addressing Gender-Based Violence in the Latin America and Caribbean region is critical, and this video presents the approaches and projects that the World ¶¹ÄÌÊÓƵAPP is using to end this scourge.
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Infographic Nov 26, 2023
Schools are spaces to socialize and learn, not for Gender-based violence
To achieve the high-income country status by 2030, the Dominican Republic will need to accelerate the reduction of relatively large gender gaps.