Research demonstrates that the COVID-19 pandemic has had differential effects bygender, with women experiencing higher job and income loss, increased rates of domesticviolence, and mounting care burdens globally. While governments and civil societyorganizations were pivotal to mitigating the impacts of the pandemic, internationalinstitutions, and multilateral development banks (MDBs) in particular, also played arole in financing and informing the design and implementation of COVID-19 responseprograms. MDBs are institutions with significant financial resources and policy leverage,but relatively little is known about their impact on narrowing gender gaps in their partnercountries, especially during the COVID-19 crisis.