Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality

2023

Policy Briefs

• How Do Shifts in Land Tenure Affect Farmers in the Philippines? 
  
• Breaking the Cycle of Intimate-partner Violence: Harm Reduction by Engaging Men in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  
• Designing and Implementing Low-Cost Childcare Solutions: Lessons from the Africa Gender Innovation Lab
  
• How Can a Community-based Approach Improve Large-Scale Mangrove Rehabilitation Efforts in Indonesia?
  
• Investing to Unlock the Potential of Nigeria’s Women Farmers
  
• Scalable Solutions to Close Gender Gaps in Nigeria
  
• The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Code (WE Finance Code)
  
• Top Policy Lessons on Empowering Adolescent Girls

• Engaging Men for Women’s Economic Empowerment: Overview of the Evidence

• Taking Control: How Financial Inclusion Impacts Labor Supply

• Navigating the Shadows: Unhappiness and Depression in the Middle East and North Africa

• Action Alert? Endemic Gender-Based Violence in the Middle East and North Africa

• Unequal Scarcity: A Gendered Analysis of Food Insecurity in the Middle East and North Africa

• Typology of Economic Women’s Groups Programs in South Asia

• Finding the Time and Labor to Farm: How Social Dynamics Drive Gender Differences in Agricultural Labor in Southern Nigeria

• Which Socio-Emotional Skills Matter Most for Women’s Earnings?: New Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa

• Latin America and the Caribbean Gender Innovation Lab (LAC GIL) Country Gender Scorecards

• Evening the Credit Score? Impact of Psychometric Loan Appraisal for Women Entrepreneurs

• Insights from LSMS+: Women lag behind in asset ownership and are burdened with domestic work

• Policy Lessons on Supporting Women Entrepreneurs

• Increasing Female Labor Force Participation

• What Works in Supporting Women-led Businesses

• Placing Gender Equality at the Center of Climate Action

• Policy Lessons on Social Protection

• Policy Lessons on Agriculture

• Policy Lessons on Improving Education Outcomes

• Policy Lessons on Access to and Uptake of Childcare Services

• Policy Lessons on Women’s Land Titling

• Policy Lessons on Empowering Adolescent Girls

• Policy Lessons on Reducing Gender-based Violence

• Policy Lessons on Facilitating Labor Markets

Working and Academic Papers 

• Asking Better Questions: The Effect of Changing Investment Organizations’Evaluation Practices on Gender Disparities in Funding Innovation
  
• Orange is the New Green: Addressing Barriers to Adoption of a Biofortified Crop by Women Farmers in Uganda
  
• Shifting Spousal Decision-Making Patterns: Whom You Target in an Agricultural Intervention Matters
  
• Supporting Women's Livelihoods at Scale: Evidence from a Nationwide Multi-Faceted Program
  
• The Enduring Impacts of a Big Push during Multiple Crises Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
  

• Sex, Power, and Adolescence: Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Behaviors

• Gender and Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Review of Constraints and Effective Interventions

• Returns to Soft Skills Training in Rwanda

• Steered Away from the Fields: Short-Term Impacts of Oxen on Agricultural Production and Intra-household Labor Supply

• The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 on Adolescents’ School Attendance in Sub-Saharan Africa

• A Firm of One’s Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice

• Sharing responsibility through joint decision-making and implications for intimate-partner violence: evidence from 12 Sub-Saharan African Countries

• Up before Dawn: Experimental Evidence from a Cross-Border Trader Training at the DRC-Rwanda Border

• What Do We Know About Interventions to Increase Women’s Economic Participation and Empowerment in South Asia? Insights From a Systematic Review of Asset Transfers and Property Law

• Occupational sex segregation in agriculture: Evidence on gender norms and socio-emotional skills in Nigeria

• He said, she said: The impact of gender and marriage perceptions on self and proxy reporting of labor

• How should the government bring small firms into the formal system? Experimental evidence from Malawi

• Program targeting with machine learning and mobile phone data: Evidence from an anti-poverty intervention in Afghanistan

• Sharing Parental Leave between Mothers and Fathers : Experimental Evidence from a Messaging Intervention in Uruguay

• Maternal Work and Children's Development: Examining 20 Years of Evidence

• Evening the Credit Score? Impact of Psychometric Loan Appraisal for Women Entrepreneurs

• Method Matters: The Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence

• Locking crops to unlock investment: Experimental evidence on warrantage in Burkina Faso

• The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteries

• Rebel with a Cause: Effects of a Gender Norms Intervention on Adolescents in Somalia

• Welfare impacts of public works in fragile and conflict affected economies

• Losing ground in the field: An exploratory analysis of the relationship between work and mental health amongst women in conflict affected Democratic Republic of the Congo

Reports

• Understanding the Outcomes of the Parcelization of Collective Titles

• Comprehensive Assessment of the Childcare Landscape in Lebanon - A Mixed Methods Study
  
• Driving Better Business Results with Women’s Insurance

• Opening Opportunities: The Economic Cost of Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurship in Indonesia

• Using Paradata to Assess Respondent Burden and Interviewer Effects in Household Surveys: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

• Second State of the Mashreq Women Report: “Who Cares?” Care Work and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon

• What Works to Narrow Gender Gaps and Empower Women in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Journal Articles

• Estimating the Demand for Business Training: Evidence from Jamaica 

• Conditional cash transfers and violence against women – Does the type of violence matter?
  
• Impacts of an abbreviated person agency training with refugee women and their male partners on economic empowerment, gender-based violence, and mental health: a randomized controlled trail in Rwanda
  
• Improving Mental Health of Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Causal Evidence from Life Skills Programming
  
• More than Measurement Error: Discrepant Reporting of Contraceptive Use and the Role of Wives’ and Husbands’ Educational Attainment

• With or Without Him? Experimental Evidence on Cash Grants and Gender-Sensitive Trainings in Tunisia

• Resilience, Vulnerability, and Social Isolation: Barriers to Poverty Reduction in War

• More than Measurement Error: Discrepant Reporting of Contraceptive Use and the Role of Wives’ and Husbands’ Educational Attainment

• Prevention, Cessation, or harm reduction: Heterogeneous effects of an intimate partner violence prevention program in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Impact of Small Farmers' Access to Improved Seeds and Deforestation in Democratic Republic of Congo

Knowledge and Technical Notes

• Nigeria GIL Technical note: Gender Gaps in Agriculture Productivity and Public Spending in Nigeria

• LAC GIL Knowledge to Action note: Child Support Policies Around the World: Challenges and Implications for Policymakers and Development Practitioners

• LAC GIL Knowledge to Action note: Facilitating the School to Work Transition of Young Women

Case Studies

• Incorporating Spousal Support into a Mindset-focused Business Training for Women in Ethiopia

• Phone-Based Financial Heuristics Training for Female Retailers in Ethiopia

• Helping Female Entrepreneurs Access Digital Platforms: The Importance of a Tech-Plus-Touch Approach and Other Lessons Learned - Case Study 1

Guidance Note

• Survey Questionnaire Module for SGS Indicators

2022

Policy Briefs

• Mashreq: Maximizing the Impact of Gender-Lens Investing and Business Practices for Forcibly Displaced Women (2022) 
• Systematic Review: What do We Know About Interventions to Increase Women’s Economic Participation and Empowerment in South Asia? Asset Transfers and Property Law (2022)

• Evidence Review: How Well Do Economic Empowerment Efforts Prevent Child Marriage in South Asia (2022)

• Evidence Review: How Well do Economic Empowerment Efforts Prevent Intimate Partner Violence in South Asia? (2022)

• Girls' Lived Experiences of School Closures : Insights from Interviews with Girls and Mothers in Punjab, Pakistan (2022)

• Addressing Gender-Based Occupational Segregation : Experimental Evidence from the Republic of Congo (2022)

• Household Demand and Community Perceptions of Community-Based Childcare (2022)

• New Insights on Women’s Employment in Ethiopia’s Industrial Parks (2022)

Working Papers

• The Social Tax : Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply (2022)

• The Effects of Childcare on Women and Children: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Burkina Faso (2022)

• Caring for Children and Firms? The Impact of Preschool Expansion on Firm Productivity (2022)

• Child Care Subsidies, Employment Services and Women's Labor Market Outcomes in Egypt : First Midline Results (2022)

• Addressing Gender-Based Segregation through Information : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Republic of Congo (2022)

• A Seat at the Table: The Role of Information, Conditions, and Voice in Redistributing Intra-Household Property Rights (2022)

• Uneven Recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean : Are Women Being Left Behind? (2022)

• Two Heads Are Better Than One: Agricultural Production and Investment in Côte d’Ivoire (2022)

• Two Sides of Gender: Sex, Power, and Adolescence (2022)

• Gender Differences in Socio-Emotional Skills and Economic Outcomes: New Evidence from 17 African Countries (2022)

• Empowering Women to Engage in Commercial Agriculture (2022)

• Increasing Women’s Empowerment: Implications for Family Welfare (2022)

Reports

• Enterprising Women: Toward Equal Business Opportunity in Southeast Asia (2022) Photobooklet

• Breaking Barriers : Female Entrepreneurs Who Cross Over to Male-Dominated Sectors (2022)

• Closing Gaps, Increasing Opportunities : A Diagnostic on Women’s Economic Empowerment in Nigeria (2022)

Journal Articles

• Understanding child support arrangements in Colombia: A social exchange theory perspective (2022)

• Development of the South Sudan Mental Health Assessment Scale (2022)

• Empowering Women to Engage in Commercial Agriculture (2022)

• Women Farm What They Can Manage: How Time Constraints Affect the Quantity and Quality of Labor for Married Women’s Agricultural Production in Southwestern Nigeria (2022)

• Tackling psychosocial and capital constraints to alleviate poverty (2022)

• The Role of Skills and Gender Norms in Sector Switches Experimental Evidence from a Job Training Program in Nigeria (2022)

• The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica (2022)

Guidance Notes

• How to Assess Gender Data Gaps in the Economic Domain: Guidance and Baseline Results for the Strengthening Gender Statistics Project’s Partner Countries (2022)

Knowledge Notes

• Knowledge Note: Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment in Payment Projects: A Short Module to Complement Context-Specific Measures (2022)

• Knowledge to Action note: Supporting Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Economies Mexico (2022)

Case Studies

• Zain Iraq - Fostering Family-Friendly Policies for Women in the Workplace (2022)

• Ashur International Bank for Investment - Advancing Women in Business Leadership & Management (2022)

• Nafith Logistics Co. - Supporting Women in Non-Traditional Roles (2022)

Policy Briefs

• In Search of Equity : Exploring Africa’s Gender Gap In Start-Up Financing (2021)

• Measuring Women’s Control Over Assets (2021)

• Coping with COVID-19 Shocks in Western Uganda (2021)

• Measuring Women’s Sense of Control and Efficacy (2021)

• Measuring Women’s Goal Setting and Decision-Making (2021)

• Women's Employment and Safety Perceptions: Evidence from Low-income Neighbohoods of Dhaka, Bangladesh (2021)

• How to Escape the Microfinance Lending Squeeze: Evidence from Ethiopia (2021)

• Improving Gender Wage Equality Reduces Intimate Partner Violence in Brazil : Policy Implications for Mothers (2021)

• How to Better Capture Women’s Agency Through Decision-making Measures : Five Tips from Research in the Philippines (2021)

• Evidence to Inform Policy: What Works to Close the Gender Gaps in Middle East & North Africa (2021)

• Impacts of COVID-19 on Labor Markets and Household Well-Being in Pakistan: Evidence from an Online Job Platform (2021)

• Diez mensajes sobre COVID-19 y trabajo femenino en Chile: Impactos y Desafíos (Ten messages on COVID-19 and women's labor in Chile: Impacts and Challenges, 2021)

• The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 on Labor Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean (2021)

• Effects of a Multifaceted Education Program on Enrollment, Learning, and Gender Equity : Evidence from Rajasthan, India (2021)

• The Short-Run Economic Impact of Summer 2020 Protests in Addis Ababa: A Brief Look at the Evidence from a High-Frequency Phone Survey of Firms

• Tell Us How We are Doing: Motivating Teams Through Feedback Versus Public Recognition (2021)

• Engaging Men to Transform Gender Attitudes and Prevent Intimate-Partner Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Working Papers

• Childcare and Mothers’ Labor Market Outcomes in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries (2021)

• Occupational Sex Segregation in Agriculture : Evidence on Gender Norms and Socio-Emotional Skills in Nigeria (2021)

• Sharing Responsibility through Joint Decision Making and Implications for Intimate-Partner Violence : Evidence from 12 Sub-Saharan African Countries (2021)

• Does the Gender Wage Gap Influence Intimate Partner Violence in Brazil? Evidence from Administrative Health Data (2021) 

• Motivating Teams : Private Feedback and Public Recognition at Work (2021)

• Individual Wealth and Time Use : Evidence from Cambodia (2021)

• Women’s Economic Participation, Time Use, and Access to Childcare in Urban Bangladesh (2021)

• Pathways out of Extreme Poverty : Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a Multi-faceted Social Protection Program in Niger (2021)

• Public Work Programs and Gender-Based Violence : Evidence from Lao PDR (2021)

• The Silenced Women: Can Public Activism Stimulate Reporting of Violence against Women ? (2021)

• Are growth mindset, mastery orientation, and grit promising for promoting achievement in the Global South? Psychometric evaluations among Indonesian adolescents (2021)

• In Light of What They Know : How do Local Leaders Make Targeting Decisions? (2021)

• Business Training and Mentoring: Experimental Evidence from Women-Owned Microenterprises in Ethiopia (2021)

• Long-Term Impacts of a Short Exposure to CCTs in Adolescence: Evidence from the Philippines (2021)

• Can Youth Empowerment Programs Reduce Violence against Girls during the COVID-19 Pandemic ? (2021)

Reports

• How Have Firms Fared in Times of COVID-19 in Addis Ababa : Evidence from Eight Rounds of High-Frequency Phone Surveys (2021) 

• Women's Economic Empowerment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo : Obstacles and Opportunities (2021)

• The Status of Women in Lebanon : Assessing Women's Access to Economic Opportunities, Human Capital Accumulation and Agency - English (2021)

• The Status of Women in Lebanon : Assessing Women's Access to Economic Opportunities, Human Capital Accumulation and Agency - Arabic (2021)

• In Search of Equity : Exploring Africa’s Gender Gap In Start-Up Financing (2021)

• Chad : The Economic Benefits of a Post-COVID-19 Gender-Equitable Society (2021)

• Childcare is key to Chile’s post-pandemic economic recovery: Policy considerations (Spanish) 2021

• Enhancing Female Entrepreneurship through Cash Grants Experimental Evidence from Rural Tunisia (2021)

• Women and E-Commerce in Africa (2021)

• Women and E-Commerce in Southeast Asia (2021) 

• LSMS+ Program : Overview and Recommendations for Improving Individual-Disaggregated Data on Asset Ownership and Labor Outcomes (2021)

• LSMS+ Program in Cambodia : Findings from Individual-Level Data Collection on Labor and Asset Ownership (2021)

• LSMS+ Program in Sub-Saharan Africa : Findings from Individual-Level Data Collection on Labor and Asset Ownership (2021)

• Closing the Gap : Gender, Transport, and Employment in Mumbai (2021)

Systematic Reviews

• Systematic Review on Women's Economic Empowerment: What Do We Know About Interventions to Increase Women’s Economic Participation and Empowerment in South Asia? (2021)

Journal Articles

• Gender biases in resettlement processes in Vietnam: examining women’s participation and implications for impact assessment (2021)

• Investment impacts of gendered land rights in customary tenure systems: Substantive and methodological insights from Malawi (2021)

• Getting the (Gender-Disaggregated) lay of the land: Impact of survey respondent selection on measuring land ownership and rights (2021)

• Motivating teams: Private feedback and public recognition at work (2021)

Case Studies

• Umniah - Safe and Respectful Workplaces (2021)

• Estarta Solutions Supporting women in non-traditional role (2021)

• The Business Case for Investing in Women’s Employment in Jordan : Amin Kawar and Sons (AKS) - Reaping the Benefits of Family-Friendly Policies (2021)

Policy Briefs

• What Factors Exacerbate and Mitigate the Risk of Gender-Based Violence During COVID-19? : Insights From a Phone Survey in Indonesia (2020)

• Can We Capture Exposure to Gender-based Violence (GBV) through Phone Surveys during a Pandemic? (2020)

• Adolescence in the time of COVID-19: Evidence from Bangladesh (2020)

• Care Work and Intra-Household Tensions during COVID-19: Evidence from an Online Survey of Gig Workers in India (2020)

• COVID-19 Pandemic Through a Gender Lens (2020)

• Fostering Skills for Young Women in Argentina (2020)

• Gender-Specific Impacts of Road Improvement: What Can Be Done to Ensure that Better Roads Expand Economic Opportunities for All (2020)

• How Selection Criteria and Preconditions Potentially Disadvantage Farming Women: An Example from the Western Balkans (2020)

• Improving Statistics and Survey Data to Highlight the Contribution of Women in Farming: An Example from the Western Balkans (2020)
  

• Looking at Gender and Socio-Emotional Skills Signaling in Turkey (2020)

• Women Entrepreneurs in Mexico: Breaking Sectoral Segmentation and Increasing Profits (English, 2020)

• Women Entrepreneurs in Mexico: Breaking Sectoral Segmentation and Increasing Profits (Spanish, 2020)

• Supporting Women Throughout the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Emergency Response and Economic Recovery (2020)

• Testing Gender Discrimination in the Tunisian Labor Market: A Field Experiment (2020)
  

Academic and Working Papers

• In Light of What They Know : How do Local Leaders Make Targeting Decisions? (2020)

• TV-Based Learning in Bangladesh : Is it Reaching Students? (2020)

• The Effects of Land Title Registration on Tenure Security, Investment and the Allocation of Productive Resources : Evidence from Ghana (2020)

• Demand for Safe Spaces (2020)

• In It to Win It ? Self-Esteem and Income-Earning among Couples (2020)

• Measurement of intra-household resource control: Exploring the validity of experimental measures (2020)

• Engaging men to transform inequitable gender attitudes and prevent intimate partner violence (2020)

• 'Fear is What Weighs Most...' Experiences of Women in Situations of Violence in Accessing Support Services in Brazil (2020)
  

• Looking at Gender and Socio-Emotional Skills Signaling in Turkey (2020)

• Method Matters: Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence in Nigeria and Rwanda (2020)

• Short-Run Welfare Impacts of Factory Jobs: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (2020)

• The Impact of Employer Discrimination on Female Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Tunisia (2020)
  

• The Relationship between Female Labor Force Participation and Violent Conflicts in South Asia (2020)

• Estimating the Demand for Business Training : Evidence from Jamaica (2020)

• Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills

Reports

• Partnering For Gender Equality : Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality - 2020 Annual Report

• Gender and Microfinance in Myanmar (2020)

• Gender Inclusion in Productive Investments in the Western Balkans (2020)
  

• Gender-Segregated Transportation in Ride-Hailing: Navigating the Debate (2020)

• Her Home – Housing Finance for Women (2020)

• Why Does She Move? A Study of Women's Mobility in Latin American Cities (2020)

• Women’s Economic Participation in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon (2020)

Policy Briefs

• Can Community-based Targeting Effectively Select Poorer Beneficiaries for a Large-scale Program? Insights from the LASED Project (2019)

• Empowering Women through Equal Land Rights: Experimental Evidence from Rural Uganda (2019)

• Africa Gender Innovation Lab Ethiopia Gender Diagnostic: Building the Evidence Base to Address Gender Inequality in Ethiopia (2019)

• What Are the Economic Costs of Gender Gaps in Ethiopia? (2019)

• Making It Easier for Women in Malawi to Formalize Their Firms and Access Financial Services (2019)

• Empowering Adolescent Girls in a Crisis Context: Lessons from Sierra Leone in the Time of Ebola (2019)

• Why do Indonesian Men and Women Choose Undocumented Migration? Exploring Gender Differences in Labor Migration Patterns (2019)

Working Papers

• Electrification and Women's Empowerment: Evidence from Rural India (2019)

• Full Esteem Ahead? Mindset-Oriented Business Training in Ethiopia (2019)

• How Should the Government Bring Small Firms into the Formal System? (2019)

• Gender in Waiting: Men and Women Asylum Seekers in European Reception Facilities (2019)

• Measuring Social Norms about Female Labor Force Participation in Jordan (2019)

• Tackling the Global Profitarchy: Gender and the Choice of Business Sector (2019)

• The Economic Lives of Young Women in the Time of Ebola: Lessons from an Empowerment Program (2019)

• What We Learn about Girls' Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls (2019)

Reports

• A Gender-Sensitive Insight of Poverty Mapping for Timor-Leste (2019)

• Africa's Pulse, No. 20, October 2019: An Analysis of Issues Shaping Africa’s Economic Future (2019)

• Board Gender Diversity in ASEAN (2019)

• Enhancing the Economic Participation of Vulnerable Young Women in Solomon Islands (2019)

• Ethiopia Gender Diagnostic Report: Priorities for Promoting Equity (2019)

• Gender Relations in Europe and Central Asia Results from the Life in Transition Survey III (2019)

• How to Ensure Better Outcomes for Women in Resettlement (2019)

• Kosovo Country Report: Findings from the Skills towards Employment and Productivity Survey (2019)

• Profiting from Parity: Unlocking the Potential of Women's Business in Africa (2019)

• Respectful Workplaces: Exploring the Costs of Bullying and Sexual Harassment to Businesses in Myanmar (2019)

• Rural Accessibility Mapping: Completion Report for the East Asia and Pacific Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (2019)

• Tackling Care: The Business Case for Employer-Supported Childcare in Myanmar (2019)

• The Problem Is They See Us as A Whole: Explaining Gender and Ethnicity-based Inequalities Among the Roma in Serbia (2019)

• Unequal Ventures: Results from an Endline Study of Gender and Entrepreneurship in East Java, Indonesia (2019)

• Using Behavioral Insights to Increase Safer Birth Deliveries in Haiti (2019)

• Voices to Choices: Bangladesh's Journey in Women's Economic Empowerment (2019)

• What Works for Working Women? Understanding Female Labor Force Participation in Urban Bangladesh (2019)