Empowering women to comply with trade-related SPS measures: Meeting challenges to achieve sustainable development

Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures are laws, regulations, and other administrative instruments that are applied for the protection of human, animal, or plant life and health. It has long been recognized that SPS measures can impede trade, and present particular challenges for low and middle-income countries. However, the development impacts of trade-related SPS measures, and in particular the extent to which these impacts are gendered, have received much less attention.

Sustainable Development Goals:

Gender Equality

Reduced Inequalities