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Latin America and the Caribbean Gender Innovation Lab (LACGIL)
Highlights
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Blog Oct 10, 2024
Transforming the Future for Girls in Central America and the Dominican Republic
Every year in Central America and the Dominican Republic, countless girls are born with boundless potential and aspirations. However, as they grow, many face obstacles that hinder their ability to pursue these dreams.
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Blog Oct 03, 2024
Qualified but Underrepresented: Addressing the Gap for Women Leaders in LAC
Gender equality and women’s leadership including women’s participation in decision-making positions within households, workplaces, and communities is key to well-being and prosperity.
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Blog Sep 18, 2024
The Gender Wage Gap in LAC: A Deeper Dive
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
Unleashing Aspirations Could Help Reduce Teenage Pregnancy in LAC
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
The Nerds, the Cool & the Central: Peer Education and Teen Pregnancy in Brazil
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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About the LACGIL
The LAC Gender Innovation Lab provides World Bank 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
Gender and poverty in Latin America, a conversation with the World Bank
LinkedIn noticias América Latina spoke with Paola Buitrago-Hernandez and Hugo Rolando Ñopo Aguilar, economists from the World Bank, 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 Violence through World Bank projects
Addressing Gender-Based Violence in the Latin America and Caribbean region is critical, and this video presents the approaches and projects that the World Bank 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.