Green Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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2019, DCED – 6 pages

This Guidance Sheet sets out some rationales for gender-responsive green innovation and entrepreneurship programmes. It provides examples of how diverse gender and green growth approaches have been integrated into existing donor programmes and it presents lessons learned and recommendations for future programmes.

 

 


Green Jobs and Skills Development

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2019, DCED – 5 pages

This Guidance Sheet sets out the case for incorporating gender-responsive approaches to green jobs and skills development in donor programmes. It provides examples of how such approaches have been integrated into existing donor-funded activity, and it offers recommendations for future programmes.


Green Value Chains

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2019, DCED – 6 pages

This Guidance Sheet sets out the case for incorporating gender-responsive approaches to value chain programmes. It presents examples of how diverse gender approaches have been integrated into the existing donor-funded activity. Furthermore, it offers success factors and recommendations for future programmes.

 


Macro-Economic Policies and National Green Growth Strategies

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2019, DCED – 8 pages

This Guidance Sheet sets out arguments for considering gender-responsive approaches in donor programmes focused on macro-economic policies and national green growth strategies. It includes examples of how diverse approaches have been integrated into existing programmes and gives recommendations for future programming.


An Introduction to Gender-Responsive Green Growth

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2019, DCED – 12 pages

This Guidance Sheet provides a brief introduction to the nexus of gender and green growth. Its purpose is to support practitioners working on the design and implementation of development programmes to consider the gender dimensions of green growth. It sets out the case for integrating gender into green economy programmes, presents case studies of existing donor projects, and provides guidelines and resources on how to incorporate a gender dimension in green growth processes and approaches.

 


A Summary on Gender-Responsive Green Growth

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2019, DCED – 1 page

The DCED developed a series of guidance sheets to support practitioners to integrate gender into green growth programming. Analysing existing green growth and gender programmes have informed the following key recommendations for practitioners including:

  • Provide technical advice to partners to ensure the development and implementation of gender-responsive national green growth and sector policies.
  • Commission national sex-disaggregated data on employment and entrepreneurship in green economy sector value chains and access to and usage of green finance.
  • Use gender criteria to inform the selection of specific green value chains (VC) for interventions and conduct a VC analysis of women and men’s roles in these chains.
  • Integrate content on gender and green growth in capacity building programmes.
  • Collaborate with green sector industry associations and their members.
  • Incorporate gender in the design and criteria for fund allocation.
  • Provide support to women and women’s groups’ engagement.

How to put Gender and WEE into practice in M4P: A Description of the Ethos, Systems and Tools used in the Alliances Programme in Georgia

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2016, DCED – 22 pages

The paper focuses on how the impact of development programming can be equitably distributed amongst male and female beneficiaries. It focuses on the Alliances Lesser Caucasus Programme in Georgia and examines how to put gender and WEE into practice in a “making markets work for the poor” (M4P) approach.

The key lessons for practitioners that are outlined in this paper include:

  • Building effective teams for WEE;
  • generating and using WEE indicators;
  • carrying out effective fieldwork;
  • issues related to gender-disaggregated data;
  • negotiating institutional norms;
  • contextualising WEE impact.

Business Environment Reform and Gender, Technical paper

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2016, DCED – 97 pages

This study on business environment reform and gender highlights gaps in the evidence basis. It provides support to donors in formulating and implementing gender-sensitive business environment reform programmes in developing countries, which contribute to a more conducive business environment that works for women as well as men. It addresses the following questions:

  • What are the factors in the business environment that have a direct and specific impact on women-owned and managed enterprises and the employment of women?
  • What are the related lessons learned from previous and existing programmes on identifying, measuring and managing gender in business environment reform programmes?

Main takeaways:

  • The greatest quantity of evidence concerns actual reforms or impacts related to childcare provision followed by substantial evidence on the positive impacts of the administration of joint land titles and women’s engagement in business associations.
  • The literature review found that any gender-sensitive business environment reform may require addressing more than the direct business environment factors that impact women’s employment and their enterprise. Equally important will be addressing socio-cultural binding constraints on women, which impact a women’s ability to engage in employment and entrepreneurship with implications for WEE and sustainable economic growth.

Gender-Sensitive Business Environment Reform: Why does it matter? – A policy guide

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2017, DCED – 11 pages

The premise of this policy guide is that without addressing gender-specific issues or women’s greater vulnerability to business environment constraints at all levels, functions and components of the business environment, women’s employment and entrepreneurship will be hampered. This in turn will have serious implications for WEE, gender equality, jobs, income, and poverty alleviation. It is essential that donors mainstream gender considerations while further seeking to achieve transformative change during business environment reform interventions at all stages of the programme development cycle. As gender influences and is influenced by all aspects of the business environment, it also needs to be considered for all aspects and stages of programming. Critically, any gender-sensitive business environment reform will require addressing not only the factors that directly restrict women’s employment and entrepreneurship but also the socio-cultural binding constraints on women to effectively remove negative implications on economic empowerment and sustainable economic growth.


On the Move – Women’s Economic Empowerment in Contexts of Migration and Forced Displacement

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2019, DCED – 74 pages

Growing international and internal migrations and forced displacements have special implications for the possibility of WEE, and associated improvements in gender equality and women’s rights. This scoping study focuses on:

  • documenting the state of practice of WEE in the context of migration and forced displacement.
  • identifying and documenting programmes that provide relevant examples of possible initiatives, successes, and lessons learned.
  • identifying gaps in current knowledge and approaches for further study.
  • recommending potential private sector development initiatives in the field.