@Petrider This is a good point regardless of the tax havens those women and girls that are non essentials staff or what ever the terminology should be pay 3 months in advance of their monthly earning.
@RsFawe "Providing tax havens for women & men in small scale business but also ensuring all employed women & men in countries with lockdown still receive 50% of their pay rolls " #covid19gendereffect
@RsFawe @vanyaradzayi@MercyJuma_@MarthaMuhwezi@otieno702003@GenCEDgh@eacsof_kenya @MEMPROW1 governments should expand current social protection systems to increase coverage and benefits to families in heavily virus-affected communities. Quarantine measures should be accompanied by financial or material support to affected low income households and/ or communities.
@RsFawe @vanyaradzayi@snorgah@MarthaMuhwezi@MercyJuma_@Yocel4Yocel@PlanAULiaison@eacsof_kenya @MEMPROW1 @GenCEDgh In the developed world, a fund would be created to cussion them. For our case in Africa we should consider several measures including reduction or removal of any taxes that women pay, offer subsidies for those engaged in the agricultural sector, seek waiver of any loans.
@RsFawe @vanyaradzayi@MercyJuma_@MarthaMuhwezi@otieno702003@GenCEDgh@eacsof_kenya @MEMPROW1 As we all know, education has been a protective mechanism for prolonging child marriage. With schools closed and families ‘broke’, an easy way would be a surge in the cases of child marriage. Other GBV like FGM is going to be on the increase, sadly