What Does It Take to Achieve Scale in Women’s Empowerment Activities?
- Partner: USAID
- Publication Type: Blog
- Date: February 18, 2021
- Team: Jamie Holbrook, Meghan Bolden, Kyla Levin-Russell and Julia Hakspiel
- Recommended Citation: Holbrook, Jamie, Meghan Bolden (MarketShare Associates), Kyla Levin-Russell (MarketShare Associates) and Julia Hakspiel (MarketShare Associates). "What Does It Take to Achieve Scale in Women's Empowerment Activities?," Agrilinks (blog), February 18, 2021. https://www.agrilinks.org/post/what-does-it-take-achieve-scale-womens-empowerment-activities.
While there are different pathways for achieving scale, “scaling up” is broadly understood to mean expanding, replicating, adapting and sustaining successful policies, programs or projects to reach a greater number of people, and is part of a broader process of innovation and learning.
Taking successful interventions to scale is particularly critical to making gains for women in agricultural productivity, resilient and sustainable livelihoods and nutrition. Women make up more than half of the global agriculture workforce but remain the minority when it comes to decision-making and access to resources and opportunities. Addressing gender-based inequalities and empowering women is, therefore, vital to reducing poverty, improving food and nutrition security and achieving rural growth at large scale.
In this blog, the Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) program team shares insights and examples of approaches to achieving scale in women’s empowerment relating to agricultural productivity, resilient and sustainable livelihoods and nutrition.
