These guidelines provide advice for practitioners on how to mainstream Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) into MSD projects.
The private sector development approaches of aid agencies have moved towards market-based economic engagement with the poor, and more recently towards WEE. However equal access of women and men to economic, social and political opportunities cannot be assumed.
Mainstreaming WEE into MSD programmes is taken to refer to the process of assessing the implications for women in particular of MSD programmes, with the ultimate goal of women’s greater economic empowerment.
This tool provides a set of questions and considerations that MSD programmes can address along a five-phase programme cycle in order to be most inclusive of WEE priorities.
Useful for:
Programme implementers and consultants aiming to consider womens' economic empowerment in market system development programmes
What Practitioners Say About the Tool
"While the language of WEE has moved on a bit to focus more on Gender, Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI), the tool is still helpful in providing guidance on how to think about promoting positive gender outcomes in MSD programmes."