Lessons Learned and Not Yet Learned from a Multicountry Initiative on Women's Economic Empowerment

The Results-Based Initiatives (RBI), launched in 2007, were a pioneering attempt to provide comprehensive, coherent, and rigorous evidence on effective interventions to foster the economic empowerment of women. The RBI comprised five small pilots with built-in impact evaluation designed to identify what works best in promoting better outcomes for women as entrepreneurs, wage earners or farmers, under different country contexts. The program was an innovative experiment in an important policy area. While there is a clear rationale for policy interventions to help remove constraints to women's ec

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Silva, Sara Johansson de
Other Persons:	Paci, Pierella (contributor) ; Posadas, Josefina (contributor)
Publisher:	Washington : World Bank Publications
Subject:	Frauen \| Women \| Frauenpolitik \| Women's politics \| Selbsthilfe \| Self help \| Welt \| World \| Weibliche Arbeitskräfte \| Women workers \| Geschlechterdiskriminierung \| Gender discrimination

Extent:	Online-Ressource (83 p)
Series:	World Bank Study
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Front Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Executive Summary; Background; Lessons on Impact; Tables; Table ES.1 Five Results-Based Initiatives: Objectives and Approaches; Lessons on Pilot Interventions; Note; Chapter 1 Background; Why Focusing on Women's Economic Empowerment and Why Using Pilots?; Boxes; Box 1.1 When Is an Intervention a "Pilot"?; The Nuts and Bolts of the RBI Pilots; Table 1.1 T he Result-Based Initiatives: Objectives, Approach, and Outcomes; Table 1.2 Commonalities and Differences in Design, Implementation, and Impact Evaluation Table 1.3 Impact Evaluation MethodsTable 1.4 E xamples of Female Economic Empowerment Questions; Notes; Chapter 2 What We Have Learned about RBI Intervention Impacts and What We Could Have Learned, But Did Not; Table 2.1 Impacts on Economic Opportunities; Table 2.2 Impacts on Human Capital Endowments and Resources; Table 2.3 Impacts on Agency; Economic Opportunities; Box 2.1 Key Findings on the Impact of the Interventions; Human Capital Endowments and Assets; Agency; Note; Chapter 3 Lessons Learned on Pilot Design, Implementation, and Evaluation; Risks at the Design Stage Box 3.1 Key Requirements for Successful Pilot ImplementationTable 3.1 Number of Beneficiaries; Table 3.2 Project Delays; Issues Surrounding Impact Evaluation Methodology; Box 3.2 Guidelines for Designing IE Pilots; Table 3.3 Budget and Time Constraints versus Quality of Impact Evaluation; Table 3.4 Female Economic Empowerment Indicators; Table 3.5 Observations in Treatment and Control Groups; Table 3.6 Intervention and Data Collection Levels; The Importance of Monitoring; Figure Figure 3.1 Alternative Policy Recommendations When Control Group Comparisons Find No Statistical Significant ImpactsNotes; Chapter 4 Conclusions; Appendix A Country Case Study Summaries; Box A.1 The World Bank's Gender Equity Model; Appendix B Technical Concepts in Impact Evaluation Design; Appendix C Power Calculations for Mekong RBI; Bibliography en_US
ISBN:	978-1-4648-0068-9 ; 978-1-4648-0070-2
Other identifiers:	hdl:10986/16377 [Handle]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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