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The Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Measurement Learning Collaborative

About the Project
How we measure women's economic empowerment matters. A new learning collaborative from the Center for Global Development and Data2x will work to advance understanding and informed use of WEE-related measures for research and action.
Featured Work
Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment
Mayra Buvinic et al.
Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment during COVID-19
Megan O'Donnell et al.
Gender and Social Protection in the COVID-19 Context
Megan O'Donnell et al.
Gender Equity in Development Finance Survey
Nancy Lee et al.
Women’s Economic Empowerment in West Africa
Mayra Buvinic et al.





Featured Work
The Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Measurement Learning Collaborative, launched in May 2021 by CGD and Data2X, convenes WEE experts across sectors to improve the quality and relevance of WEE measurement tools and indicators and advance understanding and informed use of WEE-related measures for research and action. The Learning Collaborative leverages the WEE measurement-related knowledge and expertise of its members around three objectives:
- Exploring reliable, practical and comparable WEE indicators for use in project results frameworks.
- Proposing quality and transparency standards for WEE population monitoring tools
- Creating a methodology for tracking developing finance institutions’ gender lens investing performance, building on CGD’s Gender Equity in Development Finance Survey
If you are interested in joining the Women’s Economic Empowerment Measurement Learning Collaborative, please contact Alba Loureiro (aloureiro@CGDEV.ORG).
Contact
For more information, email Lara Abiona at modonnell@cgdev.org.

Contact
For more information, email Lara Abiona at modonnell@cgdev.org.
Experts

Mayra Buvinic
Mayra Buvinic, an internationally recognized expert on gender and development and social development, is a senior fellow emeritus at the Center for Global Development and a senior ...

Megan O'Donnell
Megan O'Donnell is a policy fellow at the Center for Global Development and co-director of CGD's gender equality & inclusion research program. Her work focuses on the care econ...
Experts
Acknowledgments
CGD would like to acknowledge the generous support and engagement of the Gates Foundation and the Exxon-Mobil Foundation.
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