Women's empowerment
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Empowered women make their own life choices about family, finances, farming—and much more.
Enhancing women’s empowerment is among the global goals guiding international development efforts toward 2030, and the stated goal of innumerable development projects.
But for now, not much evidence exists on how to successfully bring about women’s empowerment.
Investing in robust data, methods and rigorous analysis to understand and track women’s empowerment can make the invisible visible and inform policies and decisions in pursuit of women’s empowerment.
Stories and insights
Evidence explainers
Methods, tools, manuals
Publications
Financial inclusion in food, land and water systems: what works for women?
Puskur, R., Verma, B., Elias, M., Mujawamariya, G., de Haan, N. and Atakos, V. 2025. Financial inclusion in food, land and water systems: what works for women? Policy Brief. Nairobi, Kenya: CGIAR Gender Equality and Inclusion.
Lessons on methodologies to assess women’s empowerment from two agricultural and livestock project portfolios: CGIAR Gender Equality and Inclusion Working Paper #030
