This paper draws evidence from existing literature and secondary data on the gendered impacts of economic crises and policies. The analysis benefited greatly from the findings in four studies from a project led by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), the Economic Research Forum (ERF) and the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) and supported by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC):
- Davalos, J., Henseler, M. and Maisonnave, H. (2024) ‘Impact of the war in Russia-Ukraine on the African economies Egypt and Kenya: A gendered macro-micro modelling assessment’.
Unpublished draft paper as of August. - Musyoka, M.P. (2024) ‘The effects of Russian-Ukraine war on gender and food security in Kenya’. ERF unpublished draft paper as of January 2025.
- Onyango, D.W., Macharia, K.K., Ngui, D. and Maloiy, L. (2024) ‘Gendered differences in household cooking coping strategies for the Russia-Ukraine war in Kenya’, AERC
unpublished draft paper as of September 2024 - Zaki, C. (2024) ‘Food insecurity and gender in turbulent times:
Evidence from new data for Egypt’. ERF unpublished draft.
The author would also like to thank Arjan de Haan (IDRC), Marzia
Fontana (IDS), Jane Mariara (PEP), Sherillyn Raga and Dirk Willem
te Velde (both ODI Global) for their feedback on earlier drafts, and
IDRC for financial support.