Employment
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- Evidence digest, Policy paper
This policy note explores the barriers women entrepreneurs face in scaling their businesses and presents evidence-based findings on effective strategies to support women-led firms. Lessons from the Africa and East Asia Pacific Gender Innovation Labs…
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- Fact sheet
This key sheet synthesises existing evidence, good practice, and key resources for integrating gender and disability inclusion in the finance sector and broader economic development programmes. It highlights approaches for ensuring financial…
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- Policy paper
This policy paper presents key lessons on closing the gender productivity gaps in agriculture, drawn from impact evaluations. The research shows that when women manage cash crop plots and have equal access to agricultural inputs and resources, they…
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- Evidence/literature review, Report
This article examines how social protection systems have supported women and girls during COVID-19 and highlights the need for gender-responsive approaches in recovery efforts. It calls for greater investment in social protection systems that…
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- Graphic resource, Multimedia
Despite progress, women still face widespread inequality, and no country has achieved full gender parity. With global commitments to achieve gender equality by 2030, the Equalities Resource Hub highlights where we stand today.With this one-page…
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- Tools and templates
This resource shows employers how to make their workplaces inclusive of people with intellectual disabilities. It includes clear guidance on accessible recruitment, hiring, communication at work, and organisational policies. It provides templates…
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- Report
This resource from the Work and Opportunities for Women helpdesk (WOW helpdesk) provides key facts relating to the case for promoting women’s economic empowerment in development programming and business planning. It explains what companies can do to…
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- Evidence digest, Policy paper
This resource summarises the findings from the Africa Gender Innovation Lab’s work on women’s property rights. It shares examples from Benin, Ghana, Rwanda and Uganda, providing lessons learned from various interventions related to improving women’s…
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- Guidance document
This resource provides advice on how to design a national disability-inclusive social protection system. It is aimed at policy makers and practitioners, offering examples from work of the governments and development organisations in different…
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- Evidence/literature review
This report from the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk (DI HD) highlights the benefits of prioritising gender equality, disability, and social inclusion (GEDSI) while working in the area of poverty reduction, trade and economic development, peace and…
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- Policy paper
This resource sets out how a lack of digital skills increases the challenges already faced by women. It provides recommendations on how to overcome barriers to women participating in businesses relying on digital activities. It uses examples from…
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- Guidance document
This resource provides guidance on how companies can consider gender equality and social inclusion in the clean energy business. This guide is aimed at the companies who want to make sure their operations are inclusive. It provides step-by-step…
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- Tools and templates
This resource provides indicators which can be used to measure the effectiveness of activities related to women’s economic empowerment. It explains what economic empowerment is and is not, and how it should be measured. It states that tailoring…
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- Evidence digest
This paper examines the gender dimensions of taxation, particularly in lower-income contexts, and explores how tax policy and administration impact women's economic participation and care responsibilities. It reviews existing literature, identifies…
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- Policy paper
This policy paper presents findings from Young Lives research on skills development and the gender employment gap across four study countries. It highlights key barriers to women’s participation in the workforce and provides policy recommendations…
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- Evidence digest, Guidance document
This evidence digest from the Disability Inclusion Helpdesk (DI HD) compiles key evidence, practical guidance and lessons learnt on engaging with organisations of people with disabilities (OPDs) in development and humanitarian settings. It includes…
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- Evidence/literature review
This resource from the Knowledge, evidence and learning for development (K4D) helpdesk is a rapid review that sets out how poverty, gender and inclusion are impacted by business environment reforms in middle-income countries.This review illustrates…
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- Multimedia, Podcast
This podcast explores gender inequalities and exclusion faced by women in Africa, with particular focus on experiences of low-income urban residents. It examines how women are impacted by issues related to:economic opportunitiesurban development and…
This guidance document and tool describes practices that Nigerian States can adopt to develop and implement gender equitable and socially inclusive (GESI) budgets. It provides step-by-step directions and tools to make the task easier, alongside…
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- Evidence/literature review
This resource from the from the Knowledge, evidence and learning for development (K4D) programme is literature review that looks at who are the bottom billion in Africa and which groups have the largest inequalities. The review explores who is most…
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- Evidence/literature review
This evidence review explores the relationship between urbanisation and extreme poverty. It provides a high-level summary of measures to address extreme poverty in urban areas and to identify areas where further research could add value. The…