This brief summarizes the early findings of the research conducted with one renewable energy company and their sales ambassadors in North and South Kivu, one of the four different responden…
The representation of women working in the private sector in the DRC, regardless of role and sector, is important because it ensures that diverse perspectives are brought to the table, con…
ELAN DRC helped raised awareness of businesses and financial institutions of the commercial benefits of integrating considerations for women as employees, customers, suppliers and cooperati…
The Savings Evidence Map is an interactive tool that provides consolidated access to 354 studies related to savings-focused financial inclusion. The map organizes the evidence into a matrix st…
This brief is a FinEquity community effort and it is meant to help the financial inclusion community understand digital financial literacy and better address this component of the digital fina…
The report Women and E-commerce in Africa is the first large-scale use of platform data in the region to inform the extent of women’s participation on e-commerce and how online platforms…
The report Women and E-commerce in Southeast Asia is the first large-scale use of platform data in the region to inform the extent of women’s participation on e-commerce and how online p…
Masculinities and COVID-19: Making the Connections provides an evidence-based overview of key issues in relation to men, masculinities, and COVID-19, setting these within a gendered approach.…
Caring Under COVID-19: How the Pandemic Is – and Is Not – Changing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work Responsibilities in the United States, a new report by Promundo and Oxfam as part o…
This report presents findings on the impact of COVID-19 and the associated State of Emergency from March – June 2020 on women in agriculture in Timor-Leste. The findings were gathered fr…
ÉLAN RDC is a DFID-funded market systems programme working across ten highly differentiated and geographically dispersed provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The pro…
2021 |Roberta Pinamonti & Jeremy Prepscius (Business for Social Responsibility) and Grow Asia
Women are often invisible in the smallholder farming landscape in Southeast Asia, perceived as being “unproductive” compared to men while also being expected to provide unpaid farm…
Developed by the Evidence Consortium on Women’s Groups, this brief presents emerging evidence from studies in diverse African contexts— with a deep dive into Nigeria and Uganda&mda…
The Women's Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality (WEEGE) Wiki is a resource compendium home to:
The Women’s Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality Technical Guide, developed to…
2021 |Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities MEAL Learning Hub
MEAL and faith in the development and humanitarian sector
Faith actors have long been involved in initiatives aimed at improving the wellbeing and health of communities. While much of…
MEDA's Jordan Valley Links project has been implementing market systems programming using both private sector and civil society partners. This technical paper explores the value of working wit…
2020 |Aatif Somji (International Labour Organization)
The COVID-19 crisis and ensuing confinement has brought to the fore a key constraint to women’s economic empowerment: the unequal, gendered distribution of unpaid care work. Even before…
MEDA piloted Gender Progress Markers (GPM) in Jordan to measure women’s economic empowerment. GPM are a set of statements, describing a progression of changed behaviors for a target grou…
لا تزال منطقة الشرق الأوسط و شمال أفريقيا لديها أكبر فجوة بين الجنسين في العالم من حيث المشاركة الاقتصادية للمرأة ؛ و ذلك بالرغم من التقدم الذي تم إحرازه خلال السنوات القليلة الماضية. و تظهر ه…
MEDA INNOVATE's new learning paper focuses on how decisions are made within agricultural households around production, including the adoption and uptake of new practices or inputs along with s…
