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Gender Mainstreaming in Agricultural Value Chains in Southeast Asia

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…

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Evidence Review of Women's Groups and COVID-19: Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Implications for Savings Groups in Africa

2021 | Evidence Consortium on Women’s Groups

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…

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Women's Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality Wiki

2021 | Banyan Global

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…

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Compendium Of Good Practices On Conducting MEAL in Partnerships With International Actors And Local Faith Actors

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…

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Adapting and Improving Lead Firm Approaches

2020 | MEDA

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…

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Child's Play: The Case for Developing Childcare Services to Boost Women's Economic Empowerment

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…

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Gender Progress Markers: Implementation Manual

2020 | Sara Seavey & Yasmin Ta'ba (MEDA)

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…

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إنجاح التمويل الرقمي للمرأة في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال افريقيا

2020 | Chloe Gueguen, Reham Gharbiyeh, Julia Hakspiel & Sabal Majali (Arab Women's Enterprise Fund)

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…

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Lessons from Farming Households: Agricultural Decision Making and Shifting Social Norms for Women's Economic Empowerment

2020 | MEDA

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…

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Making Digital Finance Work for Women in the MENA Region: Eight Lessons from the Field

2020 | Chloe Gueguen, Reham Gharbiyeh, Julia Hakspiel & Sabal Majali (Arab Women's Enterprise Fund)

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…

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Global Rapid Gender Analysis for COVID-19

2020 | Christina Haneef & Anushka Kalyanpur (CARE)

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…

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Gender Implications of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Development and Humanitarian Settings: Executive Summary

2020 | CARE

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…

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Gender Implications of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Development and Humanitarian Settings: Full Report

2020 | CARE

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…

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Where are the Men? How Male Engagement in Savings Groups Can Contribute to Financial Inclusion and Women's Empowerment

2019 | Ashley Wheaton (SEEP Network)

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…

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APEC Women@Work Brief

2019 | Caroline Rubin, Lis Meyers & Tess Perselay (Nathan Associates)

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…

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Structural Reform Measures to Improve Women's Access to Labor Market, Finance and Capital

2019 | Elin Cohen & Caroline Rubin (Nathan Associates)

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…

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Unlocking Access, Unleashing Potential

2019 | CARE

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…

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Top Policy Lessons from Africa Gender Innovation Lab Research

2017 | World Bank

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…

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Profiting from Parity: Unlocking the Potential of Women's Businesses in Africa

2019 | World Bank

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…

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Measuring Women's Agency

2017 | Aletheia Donald, Gayatri Koolwal, Jeannie Annan, Kathryn Falb & Markus Goldstein

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&…

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