Gender-Differentiated Consequences of COVID-19 on Women’s and Men’s Economic Empowerment in the Maldives

As face-to-face data collection has been rendered impossible due to lockdown measures associated with COVID-19, UN Women APRO has partnered with the private sector for the collection of evidence to inform policy and programming responses to the pandemic. In the Maldives,UN Women partnered with Maldives National Bureau of Statistics, Ooredoo and Dhiraagu to administer the survey on a random sample of 500,000 users. The survey was first rolled out on 22April 2020.