In recent years, a number of randomized evaluations have been carried out to investigate the promotion of savings interventions.
This brief shares findings from the research with an aim to inform policy responses by decision-makers in SSA working on women’s empowerment, governance, and democratic institutions.
Reducing child undernutrition is a global development goal. To move towards this goal, a better understanding of the determinants of adverse nutritional outcomes such as stunted growth or being underweight is helpful.
Enhancing women’s labor force participation is an important way to promote women's empowerment and improve their well-being and the well-being of their children.
Many women have taken on new roles in agricultural production due to significant male outmigration from many rural areas for work in neighbouring countries and the Gulf states.
The GRACE 2 Project built on the work of GRACE 1 (Gender Research in Arab Countries into ICTs for Empowerment); the regional scope expanded to include the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region bringing the total number of teams to twenty-one.
The ability to integrate gender awareness in research is as much about the commitment to understand sexism brought to the process by researchers, research participants and research environments, as about the inclusion of explicit gender goals.
This project aims to develop policy guidelines and training material on how to promote women's well-being and economic growth. The project team will review the literature on how women's economic empowerment and economic growth interact.
This project will evaluate the impact of skills training on women's livelihoods in rural Pakistan.