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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Main Authors:	Donald, Aletheia, Goldstein, Markus
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	AFRICA GENDER POLICY GENDER INNOVATION LAB WOMEN AND EMPOWERMENT WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT INDICATOR FOOD SECURITY ASSET OWNERSHIP SAVINGS ACCESS TO FINANCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION PRODUCTIVE DECISIONS MOBILITY ATTITUDES ASPIRATIONS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOUSEHOLD WORK HAPPINESS WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS WOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT WOMEN AND AGRICULTURE WOMEN AND PROPERTY RIGHTS WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT GIL SYNTHESIS AND WHITE PAPERS
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

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spelling	okr-10986-344282021-05-08T09:00:39Z The Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s Core Empowerment Indicators : Developing a Cross-Country Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures Donald, Aletheia Goldstein, Markus AFRICA GENDER POLICY GENDER INNOVATION LAB WOMEN AND EMPOWERMENT WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT INDICATOR FOOD SECURITY ASSET OWNERSHIP SAVINGS ACCESS TO FINANCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION PRODUCTIVE DECISIONS MOBILITY ATTITUDES ASPIRATIONS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOUSEHOLD WORK HAPPINESS WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS WOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT WOMEN AND AGRICULTURE WOMEN AND PROPERTY RIGHTS WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT GIL SYNTHESIS AND WHITE PAPERS 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. 2020-09-03T18:26:37Z 2020-09-03T18:26:37Z 2020-08 Brief 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 English Gender Innovation Lab; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
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topic	AFRICA GENDER POLICY GENDER INNOVATION LAB WOMEN AND EMPOWERMENT WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT INDICATOR FOOD SECURITY ASSET OWNERSHIP SAVINGS ACCESS TO FINANCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION PRODUCTIVE DECISIONS MOBILITY ATTITUDES ASPIRATIONS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOUSEHOLD WORK HAPPINESS WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS WOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT WOMEN AND AGRICULTURE WOMEN AND PROPERTY RIGHTS WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT GIL SYNTHESIS AND WHITE PAPERS
spellingShingle	AFRICA GENDER POLICY GENDER INNOVATION LAB WOMEN AND EMPOWERMENT WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT INDICATOR FOOD SECURITY ASSET OWNERSHIP SAVINGS ACCESS TO FINANCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION PRODUCTIVE DECISIONS MOBILITY ATTITUDES ASPIRATIONS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOUSEHOLD WORK HAPPINESS WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS WOMEN AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT WOMEN AND AGRICULTURE WOMEN AND PROPERTY RIGHTS WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT GIL SYNTHESIS AND WHITE PAPERS Donald, Aletheia Goldstein, Markus The Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s Core Empowerment Indicators : Developing a Cross-Country Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures
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description	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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author	Donald, Aletheia Goldstein, Markus
author_facet	Donald, Aletheia Goldstein, Markus
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title	The Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s Core Empowerment Indicators : Developing a Cross-Country Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures
title_short	The Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s Core Empowerment Indicators : Developing a Cross-Country Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures
title_full	The Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s Core Empowerment Indicators : Developing a Cross-Country Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures
title_fullStr	The Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s Core Empowerment Indicators : Developing a Cross-Country Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures
title_full_unstemmed	The Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s Core Empowerment Indicators : Developing a Cross-Country Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures
title_sort	africa gender innovation lab’s core empowerment indicators : developing a cross-country module to complement context-specific measures
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	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
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