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id: "coronavirus-smarter-crowdsourcing:strategies/Partner-with,fund,and-support-women-and-their-fami"
type: "GovLab policy strategy"
title: "Partner with,fund,and support women and their families,women-owned businesses,and grassroots organizations…"
url: "https://coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org/strategies/partner-with,fund,and-support-women-and-their-fami"
summary: "Partner with,fund,and support women and their families,women-owned businesses,and grassroots organizations specifically serving women."
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# Partner with,fund,and support women and their families,women-owned businesses,and grassroots organizations…

Partner with,fund,and support women and their families,women-owned businesses,and grassroots organizations specifically serving women.

- Timeframe: 3-6 Months (medium)
- Audience: Vulnerable Populations, Organized Civil Society, Nonprofits
- Type: Policy/Legislative/Regulatory, Partnerships, Capacity Building, Vulnerable Populations
- Recommendation: [Engage the Public and Civil Society Organizations](https://coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org/recommendations/engage-the-public-and-civil-society-organizations)
- Part of: [Smarter Crowdsourcing in the Age of Coronavirus](https://coronavirus.smartercrowdsourcing.org/)

## Actions governments should take

1. Where possible, provide economic support including cash, unemployment benefits, and expanded child support for vulnerable women and their families.
2. Support small and medium-sized women-owned businesses through specific government support including grants, tax-breaks, loans and funding, as well as subsidized and state-backed loans. Economic Sectors and industries where women are a large proportion of workers, including childcare, domestic work, and the food service industry.
3. Ensure that women who are informal workers are covered under economic support (e.g. don’t only issue them through established formal sectors and industries).
4. Specifically engage women-led and women-focused organizations and advocacy groups to be members of stakeholder committees and task forces.

## Examples from around the world

1. [The Asociación de Trabajadoras del Hogar, a Domicilio y Maquila (ATRAHDOM) is an organization in Guatemala that promotes labor and civil rights of women. During the pandemic, ATRAHDOM has coordinated efforts to bring relief to women domestic workers and other sectors where women are the majority of the labor force.](https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/9/feature-value-domestic-workers-across-latin-america)