Leveraging the Enabling Environment to Achieve Scale in Women’s Economic Empowerment: An Interview with USAID’s Wade Channell
- Partner: USAID
- Publication Type: Blog
- Date: February 19, 2021
- Team: Jamie Holbrook, Julia Hakspiel and Friederike Strub
- Recommended Citation: Holbrook, Jamie, Julia Hakspiel and Friederike Strub. "Leveraging the Enabling Environment to Achieve Scale in Women's Economic Empowerment: An Interview with USAID's Wade Channell," Agrilinks (blog), February 19, 2021. https://www.agrilinks.org/post/leveraging-enabling-environment-achieve-scale-womens-economic-empowerment-interview-usaids.
The Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) program team spoke with Wade Channell, Senior Economic Growth Advisor for Gender with USAID about how we can leverage the enabling environment to achieve scale in women’s empowerment. The conversation shares insights on:
- How to define scale in terms of women’s empowerment.
- Critical factors for achieving scale in terms of women’s empowerment.
- The role that the enabling environment plays in efforts to achieve scale.
- How to engage with norms and informal institutions to achieve behavior change.
- Examples of successful activities, partnerships and innovations supported by the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (W-GDP) to reach 12 million women in its first year.
