Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment Beyond Production in Market Systems Programs
- Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
- Publication Type: Brief
- Date: 2016
This brief examines how and why practitioners are achieving women's economic empowerment (WEE) outcomes through interventions that seek to promote and empower women in agricultural roles beyond production. More specifically, this brief presents a survey of promising strategies and recommendations for further investigation.
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Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment in Market Systems
- Partner: The SEEP Network, UN Women, and Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
- Publication Type: Webinar
- Date: August 28, 2015
Gender inequality and the process of empowerment are dynamic and complex, as are the market systems in which women work. This webinar explored practices in measuring women's economic empowerment such as innovations in measuring agency, gender norms, and gendered behavior changes at the firm and household level, as well as insights from implementing these practices when working with the private sector.
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Workforce Development Programming: Economic Strengthening and Adolescent Girls
- Partner: The SEEP Network
- Publication Type: Webinar
- Date: August 4, 2015
This webinar focuses on understanding what type of programming works in reaching and engaging adolescents in economic and financial activity, with a special interest in those programs that focus on girls and young women. The webinar explores experiences from the World Bank's Adolescent Girls Initiative (AGI), a public-private partnership that was launched in 2008 and now spans eight countries, as well as the CYFI School Bank program.
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Six Ways Women Add Value to Business
- Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
- Publication Type: Blog Post
- Date: July 7, 2015
Through research under the USAID-funded Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) project, we have found that implementers who successfully persuade businesses to adopt inclusive business practices to empower women often focus on “making the business case.” They also stress the importance of being able to speak the language of the private sector.
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Making the Business Case: Women’s Economic Empowerment in Market Systems Development
- Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
- Publication Type: Report
- Date: March 2015
This paper, based on extensive research and interviews, provides the rationale that market systems facilitation practitioners can use to engage private sector firms in efforts to empower women. From identifying partners to articulating the mutually beneficial value of women's inclusion, the paper offers guidance and real-world examples to help companies empower women working at every level of the economy.
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Measuring Achievements of Private Sector Development in Conflict-Affected Environments: Practical Guidelines for Implementing the DCED Standard
- Partner: Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED)
- Publication Type: Toolkit
- Date: February 2015
This paper provides guidance for measuring results in conflict-affected environments (CAEs) using the DCED Standard, a framework for measuring and managing results of private sector development programs.
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Scaling Impact: Extending Input Delivery to Smallholder Farmers at Scale
- Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
- Publication Type: Report
- Date: January 2015
This paper strives to inform the development of market systems that improve smallholder access to and adoption of commercial inputs. Previous studies have focused primarily on cases where donor funding has facilitated market change. This report, on the other hand, considers a diversity of models but focuses particularly on those that have reached significant scale.
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Driving Innovations to Scale in Agricultural Market Systems
- Partner: Agrilinks and Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
- Publication Type: Blog Post
- Date: December 16, 2014
Smallholder farmers represent a majority of the world’s farmers and a majority of the world’s poor. Low agricultural productivity is a key driver of their poverty. Yet while the application of improved inputs such as fertilizer, agrochemicals and seeds have significant potential to increase both agricultural yields and farmer income, input access among smallholder farmers remains low.
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Women’s Economic Empowerment: Pushing the Frontiers of Inclusive Market Development
- Partner: Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO)
- Publication Type: Report
- Date: November 2014
The framework presented in this paper identifies gender considerations and provides examples for facilitating women’s economic empowerment in inclusive market systems. By explicitly taking gender dynamics into account, inclusive market systems can empower women, leading to wide-ranging development dividends for both women and men, their families, and wider society.
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AKF’s Women-only Markets: A Promising Model
- Partner: Aga Khan Development Network
- Publication Type: Brief
- Date: April 2014
Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) realized a catalytic intervention was needed to support women’s access to public spaces, demonstrating that women can run businesses. In 2007, the first women-only markets were opened as part of a wider women’s poverty reduction initiative. A total of 29 markets were launched over the next three years. This report presents the results of this intervention and the lessons learned from the operational issues encountered.
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