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…
|Rachel Glennerster, Claire Walsh, and Lucia Diaz-Martin (J-PAL)
Policymakers and practitioners around the world are increasingly interested in supporting women's and girls’ empowerment, and many researchers are grappling with how best to measure empo…
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…
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…
2011 |CARE International - Rwanda and Promundo - US
This manual provides group education sessions for engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment, through female members of Savings Groups and their male partners.
2013 |Henny Slegh , Gary Barker , Augustin Kimonyo , Prudence Ndolimana & Matt Bannerman
This article presents an evaluation of a project in Rwanda that deliberately engaged men as partners of women’s Savings Groups. Results affirm the importance of engaging men in a deliber…
This manual integrates a gender-transformative perspective into Savings Groups, to engage men in group participation and support, and to improve gender relations and decision-making processes.
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…
2015 |Carinne Brody, Thomas de Hoop, Martina Vojtkova, Ruby Warnock, Megan Dunbar, Padmini Murthy, Shari L. Dworkin
Motivation: Self-help groups (SHGs) are implemented around the world to empower women, supported by many developing country governments and agencies. A relatively large number of studies purpo…
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 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…
