Women’s Economic Empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa – Recommendations for Business Action – BSR (2017)

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2017 BSR – 69 pages

This report seeks to mobilise greater private-sector action to advance WEE in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It highlights key challenges facing women in SSA and offers companies operating in the region recommendations on how to promote WEE through their actions and by enabling and influencing others. Additionally, this research includes three industry briefs providing specific insights and recommendations for companies in the apparel, mining, and mobile telecommunications sectors. While the main target group for this report is the private sector, it also includes information that is interesting for anyone that is involved in WEE programmes.


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.

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.

Case Study: Gender-Sensitive Business Environment Reform and Informality

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2017, DCED – 30 pages

Gender-sensitive business environment reform can play a valuable role in reducing the overall levels of informality and unfair competition for registered firms, drive tax revenues and regulatory oversight, as well as support the graduation of women’s and men’s enterprises and employment into the formal economy. This case study provides an overview of the business environment constraints for women entrepreneurs to formalising their business activity. Furthermore, it highlights from a limited sample, examples of gender-sensitive business environment reform programmes that have addressed the direct and indirect business environment constraints to business registration and licensing and details their approaches, success factors and lessons learned.

 


Case Study: Advancing Women’s Financial Inclusion through Gender-Sensitive Business Environment Reform

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2017, DCED – 34 pages

Gender-sensitive business environment reform refers to changes in policy, legal, institutional, and regulatory conditions that govern business activities in ways that account for the dynamics of socially constructed relationships between men and women. A gender-sensitive business environment can play an enabling role in addressing women’s financial inclusion. This case study provides an overview of the business environment constraints to women’s financial inclusion. Furthermore, it highlights from a limited sample, examples of gender-sensitive business environment reform interventions that have addressed the direct and indirect business environment constraints to women’s financial inclusion and details their approaches, success factors and lessons learned.


Gender Transformative Approaches in the Global Programme to End Child Marriage- UNICEF (2019)

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Child marriage is both a symptom and a result of deep seated gender inequalities and restrictive gender norms. Addressing child marriage therefore necessitates a gender-transformative approach, tackling harmful gender roles, norms and power relations. This note articulates strategies for adopting a gender-transformative approach in designing, implementing and measuring programmes in UNICEF’s Global Programme to reduce child marriage and contribute to the ultimate outcome of promoting gender equality over the long term.