Strengthening Women‘s Economic Empowerment

Sweden, 2008-2010, Sida

Development of a two-year work plan for Sida (WEE). Our consultant worked as a gender expert for Sida to strengthening focus on women's economic empowerment (WEE) in Swedish development cooperation in large and to elaborate the main WEE issues.

The project developed a concept paper for women's economic empowerment, an action plan for implementation of WEE in Sida's work and defined priorities for Sida's work on WEE.

Main outputs were :

• Conceptualization of WEE. Six discussion papers were produced by various researchers as a basis for the conceptualization. The concept is elaborated in the new Sida publication.
• A Sida's scope of engagement on Women's Economic Empowerment. Sida working paper. The project also resulted in Integration of WEE into other policy areas works.
• Portfolio analysis of five country programs; Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Zambia and Ethiopia. Action Plans developed in all countries to be implemented during 2010. Workshop on WEE for partners and stakeholders in Macedonia.
• Workshop in Zambia for donor partners on how to strengthen work on WEE in Zambia. Resulted in specific recommendations on how to integrate a WEE perspective into the next World Bank; Public Expenditure Review on Agricultural sector.
• Development of a WEE tool kit and Quick Guides on: Equal access to land and property, Gender and unpaid care work, EU Gender Acquis, and WEE in relation to the EU enlargement process.