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The Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s Core Empowerment Indicators: Developing a Cross-Country Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures

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dc.contributor.authorDonald, Aletheia
dc.contributor.authorGoldstein, Markus
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-03T18:26:37Z
dc.date.available2020-09-03T18:26:37Z
dc.date.issued2020-08
dc.description.abstractTo 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.en
dc.identifierhttp://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
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/34428
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/34428
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGender Innovation Lab;
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectAFRICA GENDER POLICY
dc.subjectGENDER INNOVATION LAB
dc.subjectWOMEN AND EMPOWERMENT
dc.subjectWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
dc.subjectINDICATOR
dc.subjectFOOD SECURITY
dc.subjectASSET OWNERSHIP
dc.subjectSAVINGS
dc.subjectACCESS TO FINANCE
dc.subjectLABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
dc.subjectPRODUCTIVE DECISIONS
dc.subjectMOBILITY
dc.subjectATTITUDES
dc.subjectASPIRATIONS
dc.subjectDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD WORK
dc.subjectHAPPINESS
dc.subjectWOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS
dc.subjectWOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectWOMEN AND AGRICULTURE
dc.subjectWOMEN AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
dc.subjectWOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectGIL SYNTHESIS AND WHITE PAPERS
dc.titleThe Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s Core Empowerment Indicatorsen
dc.title.subtitleDeveloping a Cross-Country Module to Complement Context-Specific Measuresen
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okr.crossref.titleThe Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s Core Empowerment Indicators: Developing a Cross-Country Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures
okr.date.disclosure2020-09-01
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okr.docurlhttp://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
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/34428
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okr.identifier.internaldocumentum32368961
okr.identifier.report152334
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okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.geographicalSub-Saharan Africa
okr.topicCulture and Development::Anthropology
okr.topicGender::Gender and Development
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.unitGender Impact Evaluation (AFEGI)
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