The paper explores a range of potential implications including: disruption to development and humanitarian programmes that support women and girls; increased caregiving burden on women and girls; increased need for protection services; sustained impact on livelihoods for women, who are more likely to be engaged in informal or low-wage activities or migrant work; pressure on girls to drop out of school; reduced access to hygiene and sanitary materials; food shortages affecting women and girls, who tend to eat last and least when food is scarce; deteriorating conditions for people already in need of humanitarian assistance and protection, particularly those living in poor conditions in displacement sites.
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