Locally Led Approaches for Women's Empowerment Programs

August 9, 2023 10:00 am - 11:30 am (US Eastern)
To advance our Learning Agenda, the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative's (ABA ROLI) Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) program convened a panel that featured its initiatives and contributed to two Learning Agenda to questions.
Question 2a - What are some of the most promising practices in measuring women’s empowerment, including but not limited to WEE at the institutional, family and individual levels? And how do these practices manifest differently or similarly comparatively across regions?
Question 6 - How does wide stakeholder consultation and inclusion as well as targeted private sector engagement and public-private partnerships improve the development impact, local ownership and sustainability of project results and project learning for women’s empowerment programs?
Moderated by WAGE Director, Muthoni Kamuyu-Ojuolo (ABA ROLI), the panel included Dr. Aisalkyn Botoeva, Research Evaluation and Learning Specialist (Search for Common Ground), Bindi Jhaveri, Senior Technical Advisor Financial Services (Grameen Foundation), Armand Perry Project Coordinator and Legal Advisor (ABA ROLI), and Natalia Otel Belan, Regional Director Europe and Eurasia (CIPE). The panel explored local perspectives of what women’s empowerment means, how should these perspectives inform program design, and lessons learned from localized approaches implemented in sensitive political and cultural contexts.