New Resource Compendium on Intersectionality!

Research to date clearly suggests that women around the world are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. They are losing their jobs at higher rates than men, experiencing increased care burdens and domestic violence, and struggling to maintain their businesses. Further, the overlay of other identities including race, disability, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic status, geography, migration status and other pre-existing structural inequalities and conditions intensifies the impact of COVID-19. This Resource Compendium highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed disproportionate vulnerabilities of diverse groups and why an intersectional approach to pandemic response efforts within international development is critical.

Learning Brief on Measuring Women’s Agency 

Traditionally, most economic development programs aim to achieve economic advancement as measured by increased per capita income. However, there is increasing interest from programs to better understand, measure and capture agency across interventions in order to more deliberately pursue women’s economic empowerment. Yet, integrating agency in program planning and design – and specifically measuring its impact – poses many challenges. Led by working group Steering Committee members from Oxfam, PRISMA, and Women for Women International, this brief shares Practical Tools and Frameworks for Measuring Agency in Women’s Economic Empowerment.

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