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.
Kihoro, E., Lecoutere, E. and Mishra, A. 2023. Uncovering the intersection of women’s empowerment and gender equality for climate-adaptive capacities in climate hotspots in Zambia. CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform Working Paper #017. Nairobi, Kenya: CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform.