Mainstreaming Women’s Economic Empowerment in Market Systems Development – SDC (2016)

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2016, SDC – 9 pages

This guidance sheet provides a high-level overview of the basic concepts concerning WEAMS and M4P. It is one of a series written to support agency staff in ensuring that gender issues are taken into account transversally in different thematic domains and focuses on market systems development (MSD). It outlines key gender issues regarding women’s economic empowerment in MSD and how these can be integrated into the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of cooperation strategies and project interventions.

How to Mainstream Gender in Project Cycle Management – SDC (2018)

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2018, SDC – 7 pages

This is a practical ‘How to’ guide focusing on mainstreaming gender in the programme or project cycle management. Applying a gender lens in the project cycle means taking into account power, risk, and exclusion dynamics from the outset. This deepens understanding of endogenous social processes and of the context where the project will intervene in. It also helps to mitigate exacerbating or creating new conflicts and gaps, while promoting do no harm. The guide includes helpful questions and tools for every step of the project cycle.

Guide to Gender Analysis and Gender Mainstreaming the Project Cycle – UNIDO (2021)

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2021, UNIDO Gender – 64 pages

This practical Gender Mainstreaming Guide and Toolkit provides guidance, entry points and concrete recommendations for technical personnel and Gender Focal Points working on UNIDO projects and programmes as well as for implementing partners and stakeholders. It aims to facilitate the effective and efficient integration of gender considerations throughout the entire project/ programme cycle, with a particular focus on gender analysis tools to support the important stage of project design.

Latest Research and Evidence on PSD – Special Feature: Women’s Economic Empowerment – DCED (2019)

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2019, DCED – 5 pages

This update brings together key findings from recent original studies on constraints and solutions to WEE, as well as the social and economic benefits of WEE.

Main takeaways:

  • There are persistent gender gaps in the economic empowerment of women and men in the agricultural sector, across different countries.
  • Economic transformation offers new opportunities for entrepreneurship, wage labour and social

empowerment, but women often benefit less from these than men.

  • In the area of agricultural productivity and climate-smart agriculture, successful country-specific solutions to WEE have focused on addressing the most binding constraints, or enhancing women’s participation in markets that they are already active in.
  • Some regulatory reforms and agricultural value chain interventions are found to have social empowerment benefits, and these benefits often seem to increase over time.
  • There is however also new evidence that economic development programmes have not always been effective in addressing binding constraints for women.
  • Recent research is inconclusive on the relationship between WEE and partner violence, but programmes can probably do more to reduce the risk of harm.
  • Most studies highlight the importance of context-specific research to inform programme design and results in measurement.

How to Integrate Gender & Women’s Economic Empowerment into Private Sector Development: An accompanying guide for policy-makers – DCED (2018)

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2018, DCED – 14 pages

This document is designed to give concise guidance on integrating WEE on the policy side. The focus of this guidance note will be on the policy cycle, providing support to policy-makers focused on the key tasks that they commonly undertake, namely:

  • Integrating WEE into PSD policy papers
  • Integrating WEE into Terms of Reference / Calls for Proposals
  • Assessing bidders/prospective grantees’ approaches to WEE
  • Contract management and oversight of WEE in ongoing programmes
  • Helping implementers to upgrade their approach to WEE mid-implementation
  • Building an evidence base for WEE and feeding back learnings into the policy cycle

Women’s Economic Empowerment: What do we know? – DCED (2019)

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2019, DCED Synthesis note – 6 pages

This synthesis note gives a brief overview of the most important aspects relating to WEE: the business case, key definitions, constraints and opportunities and impact measurement.

Main takeaways:

  • WEE is a contested term; most definitions include ‘access’ and ‘agency’ as key elements
  • There is increasing evidence that business actions such as investing in care services, supporting women at various levels of the value chain or having more gender-diverse boards can lead to economic gains for firms as well as for the whole economy.
  • There is evidence of successful financial and digital inclusion WEE initiatives.
  • Since social norms play a fundamental role in development programmes’ success, ensuring the participation of men and women across the project cycle can constitute an important first step.