Browse Items (33 total)

  • Collection: Economic Empowerment, Poverty, and Development

WEE_Roadmap_Report_Final.pdf
An evidence based report that summarizes the findings of 18 research efforts commissioned specifically for this project across four categories of employment – entrepreneurship, farming, wage employment and young women's employment.

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Dedicated to the education and advocacy that will improve long-term financial quality of life for women. As the only organization to focus exclusively on the unique financial challenges that women face, WISER supports women’s opportunities to secure…

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A roadmap to catalyze program and policy action for women's economic empowerment. Reports include A Roadmap for Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment, published in September 2013, and Measuring Women's Economic Empowerment, published in June 2015.

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e-Global-Financial-Crisis-and-Women-in-West-Africa.pdf
This series of briefs entitled The crisis’ impact on women’s rights, published by the , includes sub-regional perspectives on the impacts seen to date of the current crisis on women and women’s rights as well as those likely to come. These…

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The main message of the 2012 World development report is that these patterns of progress and persistence in gender equality matter, both for development outcomes and policy making. They matter because gender equality is a core development objective…

women-and-the-economy---25-years-of-progress-but-challenges-remain.pdf
This report, which includes annual data from 1984 through 2009, provides a comprehensive overview of women’s economic progress over the last twenty-five years and highlights the additional work left to be done.

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A dynamic platform to improve the sharing of evidence, experiences and good practices on women’s economic empowerment developed by UN Women and Canada.

ec_opps_for_women__poor.pdf
Explains how low-income women and the very poor in Rwanda are generally excluded from the process of economic development due to lack of resources and services. This report analyzes the economic opportunities available to these groups.

fact_and_fiction_examining_microcredit_from_feminist_eng.pdf
A report that provides, first, a definition of microcredit, then situates the tool both historically and within present debates on development and economics and finally discusses its impact on particular groups of women.

The-Business-Case-for-Womens-Economic-Empowerment.pdf
Presents findings of a study that investigated corporate-funded women’s economic empowerment programs and includes an integrated framework that the private sector can adopt to increase return on investment and enhance women's economic advancement.
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