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…
Despite progress over the past few years, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region still has the largest gender gap in terms of women’s economic participation in the world. This ec…
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation classified COVID-19 as a pandemic. Disease outbreaks affect women, girls, men, boys, and persons of all genders differently, to say nothing of t…
For nearly 75 years, CARE has been working to address the root causes of suffering and to provide lifesaving humanitarian assistance to people in need. Operating in more than 100 countries, CA…
For nearly 75 years, CARE has been working to address the root causes of suffering and to provide lifesaving humanitarian assistance to people in need. Operating in more than 100 countries, CA…
Worldwide, about 80 percent of Savings Group members are women (SAVIX 2019). Gendered participation rates in Savings Groups mirror those of the microfinance sector, which set a precedent of em…
Policies and regulations can either serve as barriers to employment opportunities for women or help to ensure that women are able to access the same employment opportunities as men or mitigate…
This report, prepared by Nathan Associates for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Policy Support Unit, examines the process of structural reforms in APEC economies to remove barriers…
In 2018, CARE launched a 12-year VSLA scaling strategy with a goal of supporting 50 million women and girls – 65 million people overall – to form savings groups by 2030. Our commit…
The Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) conducts impact evaluations of development interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa, seeking to generate evidence on how to close the gender gap in earnings, product…
This report was produced jointly by the World Bank’s Africa Region Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) and the Finance Competitiveness & Innovation (FCI) Global Practice. The World Bank&rsqu…
Improving women’s agency, namely their ability to define goals and act on them, is crucial for advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women. Yet, existing frameworks for women&…
