With COVID-19 fading from television screens and policy debates, India’s attention must turn to the major economic downturn the pandemic has caused, and especially its impact on women, Kaveri Mishra writes.

Despite focusing on the country’s COVID-19 recovery, Indonesian policymakers cannot afford to sideline low carbon development projects and other sustainable development initiatives, Hening Wikan writes.

On this episode of Policy Forum Pod, Elise Klein from The Australian National University and Kay Cook from Swinburne University join us to discuss how to improve Australia’s social security system, especially how it serves women.

The Set the Standard report has shown that workplace culture in the Australian parliament is in a full-blown crisis that demands national leadership, Intifar Chowdhury writes.

Policymakers must integrate into their climate adaptation plans the management and protection of one of the world’s most important assets – water infrastructure, Cindy Wallis-Lage and Zeynep Kisoglu Erdal write.

Despite a well-publicised push from its government aimed at empowering women, Japan’s gender equality progress has been frustratingly slow, Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi writes.