This paper explores the impact of a livestock transfer program, that targeted small-holder female farmers with high … confirm that program participation improve households’ food security through higher income from livestock sales and home … greater protein intake. Moreover, positive impacts on women’s empowerment and gender parity within the household are found …

Forty-five years ago, the first Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social … Conference of the International Women’s Year (Mexico City, 1975). This meeting culminated in the adoption by the governments of … the region of the Regional Plan of Action for the Integration of Women into Latin American Economic and Social Development …

Middle East and North Africa region by examining the effects of aid to Women's Equality Organizations and Institutions on … women's political empowerment, measured by the proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments. We use panel data … planning and reproductive health. The econometric results suggest that official development assistance ... to women' equality …

-disaggregated data set on India. Empowerment is measured by women's decision-making ability, mobility, financial autonomy, reproductive …Electrification has been shown to accelerate opportunities for women by moving them into more productive activities …. This paper investigates the causal link between electricity access and women's empowerment, using a large gender …

We conduct a synthetic review of the literature examining relationships between domains of women’s empowerment and food … system outcomes. Many studies report significant positive associations between women’s empowerment and intrahousehold gender … empowerment indicators and women’s dietary diversity scores. The findings suggest women’s empowerment contributes to improved …