GENDER insights
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
Working Paper
Closing Gender Gaps in Productivity to Advance Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
Puskur, R., Jumba, H., Reddy, B., Etale, L., Ragasa, C., Mishra, A., Mangheni, M.N., Nchanji, E., and Cole, S. 2023. Closing Gender Gaps in Productivity to Advance Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform Working Paper #014. Nairobi, Kenya: CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform.
Working Paper
Addressing Gender Inequalities and Strengthening Women’s Agency for Climate-resilient and Sustainable Food Systems
Bryan, E., Alvi, M., Huyer, S. and Ringler, C. 2023. Addressing Gender Inequalities and Strengthening Women’s Agency for Climate-resilient and Sustainable Food Systems. CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform Working Paper #013. Nairobi, Kenya: CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform.
Working Paper
Measuring Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: Innovations and Evidence
Quisumbing, A., Cole, S., Elias, M., Faas, S., Galiè, A., Malapit, H., Meinzen-Dick, R., Myers, E., Seymour, G., and Twyman, J. 2023. Measuring Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: Innovations and Evidence. CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform Working Paper #011. Nairobi, Kenya: CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform.