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How can we understand the impacts our programs are having on women's empowerment? It’s a question without a simple answer – because understanding social change is not a simple thing. The resources and tools in this collection provide one answer, based on the struggles and lessons from CARE International’s Strategic Impact Inquiry on Women’s Empowerment.
This Compendium seeks to consolidate the best of many practical resources and lessons that staff and consultants working on the SII generated, including theoretical frameworks, analysis techniques, quantitative questionnaires, interview guides, participatory reflective techniques, and more. It is intended for CARE colleagues, partners and allies who are interested in topics of gender, power, and social justice, and in assessing the impact in these arenas of programs that are either under way or in the planning stages. It is not a manual, or the final word on measuring women’s empowerment. Rather, we hope it can be a useful resource to which people can turn, and contribute, over time. |
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You may be just starting to learn what empowerment means, or you may be designing a new project and need specific indicators of women’s empowerment, or you may want to review all of your programming to determine what impact you are having on women’s empowerment. This collection is organized in a series of modules, so that you can plot your own course through a learning process. You will find many hyperlinks – those terms in RED you see on this page – that allow you to navigate from theme to theme, subject to subject, following your own discovery process.
For longer documents, a summary is provided along with the complete document. For each module, there are short descriptions of every document and tool that is relevant to that particular subject. Many documents are listed under more than one module. The tools can be downloaded and adapted for immediate use. In all of your reading, you will want to refer back to the Case Studies, which include Bangladesh, Burundi, Ecuador, Ethiopia, India (CASHE), India (STEP) Mali, Tanzania, and Yemen in addition to the Empowerment and HIV Multi-country Process Note (Coming soon!).
The modules are as follows:
Module 1: The Strategic Impact Inquiry: Why CARE wants to measure women’s empowerment
Module 2: What is empowerment? Definitions and theoretical frameworks
Module 3: Understanding local context
Module 4: Research design and methods
Module 5: Towards appropriate indicators of empowerment
Module 6: Analysis: Making sense of data and drawing conclusions about impact
Module 7: Implications for program design
Module 8: How do we change internal CARE behavior, attitudes and practices?
To make this resource as accessible as possible, we have posted the entire collection on the web for open access, in Strategic Impact Inquiry library of CARE’s Program Quality Digital Library (pqdl.care.org). CD-Rom versions can be requested from the PQDL librarian (PQDlibrarian@care.org).
Our intent is for this to be a resource of key methods tested and found useful in the SII. Please help us improve it, by sending your feedback or any material we missed which you think should be included to the PQDL librarian (PQDlibrarian@care.org).
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