A Practical Guide to Measuring Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment in Impact Evaluations
Gathers insights from the experiences of J-PAL affiliated researchers around the world and offers practical tips for how to measure women’s and girls’ empowerment in impact evaluations. It is designed to support the work of monitoring and evaluation practitioners, researchers, and students. Throughout the guide, we emphasize the importance of conducting in-depth formative research to understand gender dynamics in the specific context before starting an evaluation, developing locally tailored indicators to complement internationally standardized ones, and reducing the potential for reporting bias in our instruments and data collection plan.