Engendering Data Blog Post
Women's empowerment
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Empowered women make their own life choices about family, finances, farming—and much more.
Enhancing women’s empowerment is among the global goals guiding international development efforts toward 2030, and the stated goal of innumerable development projects.
But for now, not much evidence exists on how to successfully bring about women’s empowerment.
Investing in robust data, methods and rigorous analysis to understand and track women’s empowerment can make the invisible visible and inform policies and decisions in pursuit of women’s empowerment.
Stories and insights
Evidence explainers
Methods, tools, manuals
Publications
Brief
Increasing access to and uptake of livestock vaccines and women’s empowerment with gender-responsive vaccine delivery systems
Galiè, A., Njiru, N., Omondi, I., Malapit, H., Ferguson, N., Lecoutere, E. and Muchiri, C. 2025. Increasing access to and uptake of livestock vaccines and women’s empowerment with gender-responsive vaccine delivery systems. Brief. Nairobi, Kenya: CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform.
Brief
A synthesis of changes in women’s empowerment from Cultivate Africa’s Future agricultural development projects
Malapit, H., Galiè, A., Njiru, N., Ferguson, N., Omondi, I., Lecoutere, E. and Muchiri, C. 2025. A synthesis of changes in women’s empowerment from Cultivate Africa’s Future agricultural development projects. Nairobi, Kenya: CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform.
Working Paper
A framework for measuring and tracking the climate resilience of women in agrifood systems: CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform Working Paper #24
Marimo, P., Anbacha, A., Puskur, R., Bindu, C.R., Malhotra, A. and Kori, P. 2024. A framework for measuring and tracking the climate resilience of women in agrifood systems. CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform Working Paper 024. Nairobi, Kenya: CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform.