Empowerment-Forward Poverty Mapping: Real-Time Learning from the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund’s Disadvantaged Assessment
- Partner: Arab Women's Enterprise Fund (AWEF)
- Publication Type: Brief
- Date: 2017
- Team: Erin Markel, MarketShare Associates; Laura Kim, MarketShare Associates; and Ruba Aladham, AWEF oPTs
- Recommended Citation: MarketShare Associates. Empowerment-Forward Poverty Mapping: Real-Time Learning from the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund’s Disadvantaged Assessment. DFID. 2017.
Funded by the U.K. Department for International Development, the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF) takes a unique approach to economic development. Working across Jordan, Egypt, and Palestine, AWEF blends market systems and empowerment-thinking to stimulate women’s economic empowerment. AWEF is the only market systems development project in the region with women’s economic empowerment as its core objective. It is implemented by DAI Europe (lead) and MarketShare Associates (MSA). This learning brief captures the experience of the AWEF team in developing a gender-sensitive, empowerment-forward poverty mapping tool, the Disadvantaged Assessment.
The purpose of this brief, which was published by AWEF’s Learning Hub, is to put forth lessons and recommendations in order to generate knowledge and further discussion on poverty mapping practices. This brief is part of an iterative documentation process, whereby the brief will lead to a longer final report once the methodology is further tested by the programme. The brief is aimed at market systems practitioners who are grappling with good practice poverty mapping and measurement.
