Trade can dramatically improve women's lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women … policy on both women and men and to develop appropriate, evidence-based policies to ensure that trade helps to enhance … connections among the economic roles that women play as workers, consumers, and decision makers. Building on new analyses and new …

Central America lags the rest of Latin America in outcomes related to women. The countries of Central America (Costa … of women and improving their social and economic outcomes. This report takes stock of this progress as well as continuing … challenges faced by women in the region. It assesses women's legal rights and protections, access to endowments and economic …

The Women Economic Empowerment report outlines the factors contributing to the persistently low economic participation … of Egyptian women and to identify "gender smart" policies and solutions to boost economic growth while at the same time …, narrowing relevant gender gaps. The study provides the context of women's share of the public space as reflected in their access …

The study aims to understand the constraints to women's equal participation in the roads sector inMalawi to inform the … identify and describe the barriers to career progression for women in the roads sector at each stage in the career cycle … focus group discussions with women and girls along the career cycle in the roads sector and key informant interviews. The …

The gender and justice study is to understand women's legal issues and justice seeking behaviors in four regions of … Afghanistan. It focuses on four main themes, including: a) women's main legal issues; b) women's justice-seeking choices and … rationale for those choices; c) the challenges women face when trying to access justice institutions; and d) women …

-disaster context, women's and girls' unequal access to social, political, and economic resources influences their access to post …-disaster assistance and compensation for damage and losses. While the post-disaster context presents a host of challenges for women, it is … important to recognize that women are not just victims of disasters. The strength of post-disaster recovery lies with how well …

, the continent has further to go to close gender digital divide. Four hundred million women in low- and middle …-income countries (LMICs) remain unconnected. The COVID-19 pandemic has further disproportionately impacted women's livelihoods and …), where women often face greater safety and security concerns, significant mobility constraints, and restrictive sociocultural …