This page brings together a selection of high-quality webinars from a range of sources to provide a learning hub on women’s economic empowerment (WEE). The webinars cover many different aspects of WEE and to help easily identify which webinar is best for you, the following key is used:
Introductory: 
indicates a webinar provides a clear, scene-setting introduction to the topic
Case studies: 
indicates a webinar discusses the design and impact of one or more WEE programmes
Practical: 
indicates a webinar contains practical guidance for designing or implementing a WEE programme
For more resources on WEE, check out the link to the corresponding section of our WEE Knowledge Page given beneath each set of webinars.
Contents
- Making the economic and business case for WEE
- Constraints and opportunities for WEE in different sectors and contexts
- Integrating gender and WEE in different PSD approaches
- Measuring gender and WEE results in PSD
- PSD programme case studies highlighting impacts across different empowerment dimensions
Working with the private sector to empower women: How to build the business case for change, SEEP, 2019
This webinar walks through the process of developing a business case for women’s empowerment.
Women’s economic empowerment: The (inclusive) business case, Business Call to Action, 2018
This webinar explores the business case for the private sector to actively engage women, and the role for business to promote and support WEE.
Gender and fisheries: A sea of opportunities, AGENT, 2019
This webinar looks at why gender matters for improved fisheries management.
Overcoming gender barriers to accessing and using climate information services, Agrilinks, 2018
This webinar discusses the effects of gender-related differences in climate information needs, access and use on adaptation responses and resilience.
Transforming gender inequality through inclusive dairy value chain development, SEEP, 2017
This webinar shares insights on the status of gender inequality in a dairy-based market system and strategies to make it gender inclusive.
This webinar shares lessons learned from projects that aim to empower women in non-production agricultural roles.
Women, water, and farming, ODI, 2016
This webinar discusses how gender differences can put women at greater risk of climate hazards, and how to redress the balance.
Gender and urban services: Access, decision making, and economic empowerment, AGENT, 2019
This webinar introduces gender-related issues in delivery and use of urban services, and highlights interventions that increase WEE.
The gender and energy nexus in urban settings, AGENT, 2018
This webinar discusses how to make urban energy policies gender aware.
Gender implications for energy infrastructure, AGENT, 2018
This webinar looks at the gender considerations around large-scale energy infrastructure projects, and highlights good practices in the sector.
Workforce development programming: Economic strengthening and adolescent girls, SEEP, 2015
This webinar shares insights from programmes that aim to engage girls in economic and financial activity.
Stronger interventions through evidence: Population Council’s work with adolescent girls, SEEP, 2014
This webinar discusses examples of research helping design effective interventions for empowering girls.
Gender and Business Environment Reform, DCED, 2020
This webinar presents highlights from the 2020 Women, Business and the Law report, and discusses the importance of women’s property rights.
Building market systems to empower women in fragile and conflict-affected states, SEEP, 2019
This webinar explores how practitioners can adapt their approach to women’s empowerment in fragile and conflict-affected states.
Women’s economic empowerment through market systems approaches, BEAM Exchange, 2016
This webinar presents an updated women’s empowerment and market systems framework.
The theory behind the approach: Women’s economic empowerment in inclusive market systems development, SEEP, 2015
This webinar introduces the elements of empowerment, types of interventions, and underlying rules that sit within WEE in market systems.
This webinar features the use of a push/pull framework in projects designed to empower rural women by improving their access to markets.
How to tackle violence against women and girls, BEAM Exchange, 2015
This webinar presents how gender-based violence can constrain market access and hence limit the impact of markets systems programmes.
Blockchain 101: What is it and how can it empower women?, SEEP, 2019
This webinar provides an overview of blockchain and how it can be applied within WEE programming.
Catalysing impact through gender-smart investing, SEEP, 2019
This webinar provides an overview of gender-smart investing and shares related experiences and tools.
Feminist and gender-transformative financial inclusion, WED Lab, 2019
This webinar discusses challenges and opportunities for adopting gender-transformative approaches to financial inclusion.
Accelerating women’s digital financial inclusion, SEEP, 2018
This webinar explores how to address gender gaps in access to and use of digital technologies and financial services.
Women’s economic empowerment through financial inclusion, IPA, 2017
This webinar considers how financial inclusion can empower women and how financial services can be best designed to address women’s needs.
Digitizing financial solutions to advance women’s economic participation, MarketLinks, 2016
This webinar discusses the benefits and challenges of digital payments and proposes how to expand them.
Understanding Invisible Labour in Supply Chains: Impact, Opportunities, and Examples, Work and Opportunities for Women, 2020
This webinar looks at unpaid work and care in supply chains and how to address the issues they pose, particularly for women.
Why we care about care – An introduction, UN Women Training Centre, 2017
This webinar discusses what care is, the factors contributing to the current unjust care system, and how to move towards a fairer system.
Men and equality in unpaid care, MenCare, 2016
This webinar discusses key global issues in unpaid care and strategies to increase men’s caregiving.
Facilitating women’s economic empowerment: Tackling gender norms and unpaid care, BEAM Exchange, 2016
This webinar considers how gender norms influence WEE and how market systems programmes can address unpaid care.
Social protection and the empowerment of rural women in Africa, Socialprotection.org, 2016
This webinar explores social protection interventions targeted at rural women in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Empowering women: Why quality jobs matter, SEEP, 2015
This webinar explores the gender dimensions of wage work and how market systems programming can better tackle this aspect of WEE.
Profiting from parity: Unlocking the potential of women’s businesses in Africa, DCED, 2019
This webinar discusses the challenges women entrepreneurs in Africa face and puts forward solutions to address these challenges.
What Do Men Have to Do with WEE? Lessons and Challenges, DCED, 2020
This webinar looks at men’s attitudes towards gender equality and shares insights on how they can be engaged as allies to achieve WEE.
Women’s economic empowerment: What we measure and why it matters, WED Lab, 2019
This webinar covers research on measurement of WEE and discusses challenges, opportunities, and approaches.
Practical tips for measuring the impact of financial inclusion on women’s economic empowerment, FinDev Gateway, 2018
This webinar outlines the process of developing measurement instruments and highlights examples of indicators for financial inclusion.
Women’s economic empowerment: Practical tools for gender-responsive poverty measurement, SEEP, 2018
This webinar introduces three poverty measurement tools and discusses their strengths, weaknesses, and practical implications.
What works to empower women economically: New findings and a policy conversation, CGD, 2019
This webinar discusses the findings from projects providing access to mobile savings and training to women small business owners.
Cross-country perspectives on gender norms, ALIGN, 2018
This webinar highlights the impact, challenges, and lessons learned of five programmes designed to change gender norms.
A spoonful of sugar: Promoting women’s economic empowerment through edutainment approaches, SEEP, 2018
This webinar shares good practices and lessons learned from ‘edutainment’ campaigns to promote WEE.