The Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s Core Empowerment Indicators : Developing a Cross-Country Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures
To advance economic gender equality in Africa, the authors first need to know which development programs work to economically empower women. Better data on gender-informed development indicators is imperative for tracking the progress in promoting...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/266371598939526547/The-Africa-Gender-Innovation-Lab-s-Core-Empowerment-Indicators-Developing-a-Cross-Country-Module-to-Complement-Context-Specific-Measures http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34428 |
| Summary: | To advance economic gender equality in
Africa, the authors first need to know which development
programs work to economically empower women. Better data on
gender-informed development indicators is imperative for
tracking the progress in promoting gender equality,
designing interventions to address gender-based constraints
and rigorously evaluating their impact. Measurement of
women’s economic empowerment requires a clear
conceptualization of what empowerment is and is not. One
guiding definition that the authors use at the Africa gender
innovation lab (GIL) is economic empowerment as the ability
and power to generate income and accumulate assets, and to
control their disposition. Beyond being clear on what is
being measured, how it is measured also matters - and
selecting the best tools for the task is no easy feat. In
impact evaluations, tailoring measurement to reflect local
economic arrangements and capture the specific pathway the
project is intending to affect can yield a more precise (and
useful) picture of women’s economic empowerment. On the
other hand, systematically tracking the same indicators
across projects can provide a broader understanding of the
relationship between intermediate and final empowerment
outcomes, as well as between different empowerment domains,
such as assets, mobility, time, attitudes, and aspirations.
Moreover, practitioners and policymakers have emphasized the
need for a concise set of practical metrics that can be
easily shared and used. |
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