The AWEF Learning Series engages diverse stakeholders to examine practical lessons and solutions in women’s economic empowerment. 

In collaboration with the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF), DAI Europe, and MarketShare Associates, The SEEP Network hosts a two-year learning series entitled “In Practice: Women’s Economic Empowerment in Market Systems." Funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), the learning series is part of the AWEF project, and aims to engage diverse stakeholders to examine practical lessons and solutions in women’s economic empowerment. 

Launched in 2015, the AWEF initiative aims to increase economic opportunity and well-being for 150,000 poor women in Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine. The objective is to expand women’s participation and representation in the labour market and enhance their voice, choice, and control in economic activities.

What Are We Working On?

In collaboration with SEEP Women’s Economic Empowerment Working Group (WEE WG), the learning series will include:

• Quarterly webinars
• Summary reports and blogs 
• Practitioner learning briefs

What We've Achieved

• Overcoming Gender-Blindness in Market Systems' Poverty Measurement and Targeting (Blog)
• Linking Women to Markets: A Closer Look at Women's Market Readiness (Webinar)
• Women's Economic Empowerment: Practical Tools for Gender-responsive Poverty Measurement (Webinar)
• Accelerating Women's Digital Financial Inclusion (Webinar)
• Fintech for Women: Scaling the Financial Inclusion Pyramid in Egypt (Blog)
• Building Market Systems to Empower Women in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States (Webinar)
• Making the Business Case: Women's Empowerment in the Apparel Industry (Webinar)
• Dinarak Jordan: How Mobile Money Can Empower Female Agents and Clients (Blog)
• Working with the Private Sector to Empower Women: How to Build the Business Case for Change (Webinar)
• Working with the Private Sector to Empower Women: What to Measure and How to Build the Business Case for Change (Learning Brief)
• Working with the Private Sector to Empower Women: How YOU Can Build a Business Case for Change (Blog)
• Banking on Women: Strategies to Increase Access and Engagement (Webinar)
• Discovering a Route to Formalize Women-Owned Businesses in Jordan (Blog)
• Does Market Systems Development Work for Women's Financial Empowerment? (Webinar)
• Making Digital Finance Work for Women in the MENA Region: Eight Lessons from the Field (Learning Brief)
• إنجاح التمويل الرقمي للمرأة في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال افريقيا (Learning Brief)
• Making Digital Finance Work for Women in the MENA Region: 8 Lessons from the Field (Blog)
• Gender Smart Investing in MENA (Learning Brief)
  
   

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