Resources

Practical tools and resources to improve gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Tool

Women's Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality (WEEGE) Wiki

Use this wiki intended to help USAID staff, implementing partners and development practitioners to understand, address constraints to, and advance women’s economic empowerment and gender equality in their work.

    Tags:
  • Economic Growth
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Gender Equality in the Workforce
  • Activity Design and Implementation
Summary

What We Do: Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

Understand USAID's commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment and its top priorities for shaping programming.

    Tags:
  • Economic Growth
  • Gender-Based Violence
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Gender Analysis
  • Policy
  • Women’s Leadership
  • Strategy
Summary

Fact Sheet: Empowering Women for Food Security

Review this factsheet which outlines Feed the Future's approach to empowering women in food security to overcome barriers and unleash their full potential, including in the wake of COVID-19.

    Tags:
  • Agriculture and Food Security
  • Adolescent Girls/Youth
  • Climate, Environment, and Natural Resource Management
  • Data and Decision-Making
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Engaging Men and Boys
  • Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion
  • Humanitarian Response, Crises and Conflict
  • Resilience and Food Security
  • Training
  • Strategy
Brief

Brief: Gender Inequality Causes Poverty

Explore research that establishes how unequal conditions for women and girls contribute to poverty and suffering around the world.

    Tags:
  • Economic Growth
  • Data and Decision-Making
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Inclusive Development
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
Tool

The Women’s Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality Technical Guide

Use this Women’s Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality Technical Guide that is designed to improve dialogue, coordination, and impact among USAID and its development partners as they seek to advance WEEGE.

    Tags:
  • Economic Growth
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
  • Project Design and Implementation
Communications Product

Infographic for Survivor-Centered Programming

Access this infographic which describes the survivor-centered approach to quality gender-based violence (GBV) programming.

    Tags:
  • Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
  • Gender-Based Violence
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Gender Analysis
  • Gender Equality in the Workforce
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Project Design and Implementation
Summary

Land Links: Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

Delve into the Land Links site, full of material in support of USAID's mission to secure and strengthen women’s land and resource rights across the developing world.

    Tags:
  • Land and Property Rights
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Gender Equality in the Workforce
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Partnerships
  • Policy Formation
Communications Product

United States to Announce Commitments to the Generation Equality Forum (Fact Sheet)

Read this factsheet to learn about the Biden Administration’s U.S. domestic and global priorities on gender equity and equality.

    Tags:
  • Economic Growth
  • Gender-Based Violence
  • Global Health
  • Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Gender-based Violence
  • Policy
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Policy Formation
Strategy

National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality

Review the first-ever U.S. national gender strategy which aims to ensure that a focus on gender is mainstreamed across the work of the federal government.

    Tags:
  • Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
  • Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion
  • Gender Equality in the Workforce
  • Inclusive Development
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Women’s Leadership
  • Policy Formation
  • Strategy
Research and Reports

USAID Transform WASH: Women as Business Leaders

Learn about the gender dynamics in the water, sanitation, and hygiene business and discover action points to enhance women's roles in the sector.

    Tags:
  • Water Security, Sanitation, and Hygiene
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion
  • Gender Equality in the Workforce