Supporting women’s ability to succeed and advance economically leads to healthy and productive households, growing businesses, and the well-being of communities and nations.
An estimated $28 trillion could be added to the global annual GDP by 2025 by advancing women’s equality. Women’s economic empowerment (WEE) refers to a process by which women
expand their ability to succeed and advance economically, and where they have the power to make and act on strategic life decisions in a context where this power was previously denied.
What We Aim to Achieve
SEEP is dedicated to addressing systemic barriers that limit women’s empowerment through knowledge mobilization, cross organizational learning, and strengthening partnerships and
alliances among diverse market actors. Our learning initiatives are designed to address common challenges amongst practitioners and create tangible opportunities to share promising practices,
co-create technical resources, and to promote a collective voice for improving policy and practice.
The SEEP Network, in collaboration with forum partners, hosted an international conference on women’s economic empowerment with the theme “Creating Systems Change for Scale and
Sustainability.” Over 350 participants from 60 countries convened to share promising practices for enterprise growth and job creation, financial inclusion, and women in agricultural
systems.
The goal of the Women’s Economic Empowerment Working Group (WEEWG) is to improve the ability practitioners to integrate and empower women in market systems.
This learning series is part of the AWEF project and will
engage diverse stakeholders to examine practical lessons and solutions in women’s economic empowerment.
Around the world, women consistently earn less than men and are trapped in the lowest paid and least secure jobs, which rarely provide formal workplace protections or social security. They als…
This technical note examines the role of the enabling environment in supporting women agri-entrepreneurs and agricultural wage workers. It begins with an assessment of the entrepreneurial and…
There is widespread recognition that unleashing women’s talent as entrepreneurs is an effective way to narrow the current gender gaps in the labor market, and thus contribute to inclusiv…
2018 |Nisha Singh (The SEEP Network) and Anam Parvez Butt, Claudia Canepa (Oxfam)
Insights from a Practitioner Learning Group
This document is a summary of the process and insights from the participants of a 2017 Practitioner Learning Group (PLG) on “Shifting Social N…
2018 |Ariane Ryan, Amna Awan, Maryam Piracha, and Syeda Samira Saif (Market Development Facility)
This paper explores the effect of increased household income on women’s economic empowerment in the context of complex household dynamics, and seeks to understand how access to economic…
Women face layers of regulatory, social, and cultural inequalities in accessing employment opportunities globally. If confronted by employment barriers, women are more likely to live in povert…
Research within the savings sector to date has produced mixed results on the impact of VSLA on women’s empowerment. This study examines if the more holistic approach to poverty alleviati…
The Gender Equality Mainstreaming (GEM) Framework is an approach that is presented here as a how-to manual – a practical guide and toolkit – for assessing gender equality, and iden…
The international community is increasingly aware of the negative impacts of child marriage on a wide range of development outcomes. Ending child marriage is nowpart of the Sustainable Develop…
The purpose of this study is to document changes in household decision-making among participants of BOMA’s gender-focused graduation model, specifically about household financial decisio…
Funded by the U.K. Department for International Development and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF) takes a unique approach to economic developme…
This case study is the third in ELAN RDC's Women's Economic Empowerment Learning Series. ELAN RDC is a DFID-funded market systems programme working across ten highly differentiated and geograp…
CARE, Save the Children, and World Vision are combining value chain development (VCD) with gender and nutrition programming to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among the extremely poor.…
CARE, Save the Children, and World Vision are combining value chain development (VCD) with gender and nutrition programming to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among the extremely poor.…
“Young girls get misguided [with cellphones]. It can break families and ruin relationships…Why do girls need [a] cellphone? The Internet is a waste of time and money for a middle-…
In short, yes it can. But it is just one piece of a complex and multi-faceted jigsaw.
This snapshot provides an overview of the research, its context and key recommendations. The aim is to pro…
This case study is the first in ÉLAN RDC’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Learning Series. ÉLAN RDC is a DFID-funded market systems programme working across ten highly…
This case study is the first in ÉLAN RDC’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Learning Series. It aims to test the theory of change that by engaging poor women on the same terms a…
Together to End Violence Against Women (TEVAW) is an intimate partner violence prevention research and learning initiative designed using a socio-ecological lens to prevent intimate partner vi…
This technical brief documents emerging thought leadership on measurement practices for unpaid care work. More specifically, it presents a survey of current good practices, explores how practi…
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