In the context of maternity protection, high costs borne directly by women put them at risk of delaying or foregoing antenatal and postnatal care, which is often associated with poor health outcomes for women and babies. This is further compounded by the lack of income security during the perinatal and breastfeeding period.
OTHER RELEVANT RESOURCES
- Gender-responsive social protection: What does it look like? How do we get there? (forthcoming)
- Social Health Protection and Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health brief (forthcoming)
- Maternity Protection resource package
COUNTRY CASES
- Feasibility Report: Sickness and maternity cash benefits for civil servants in Somalia "Assessment Based National Dialogue in Somalia" (forthcoming)
- Feasibility studies on maternity benefits (Kenya) (forthcoming)
- Maternity cash benefit for women in the informal economy in Kenya- call to action