Measuring Women’s Agency, Empowerment, and Norms in Impact Evaluations
Online
About the Event
Gender outcomes—agency, empowerment, and norms—can often seem nebulous and hard to capture through concrete quantitative and qualitative indicators. What does it mean for women to have agency? Can women’s empowerment be measured? How can we know if social norms have changed? These are some of the questions to consider when designing and evaluating a program aimed at transforming gender outcomes.
J-PAL’s Gender sector aims to address inequality by objectively measuring outcomes that are often socially-embedded and seemingly abstract. J-PAL affiliates and staff from all over the world have also produced a Practical Guide to Measuring Women’s Empowerment in Impact Evaluations for this purpose.
In this lecture-based webinar, Shagun Sabarwal will draw on this body of work to discuss strategies to measure gender outcomes. Join us to explore ways in which we can apply measurement tools to generate rich evidence on improving gender outcomes.
J-PAL’s Gender sector aims to address inequality by objectively measuring outcomes that are often socially-embedded and seemingly abstract. J-PAL affiliates and staff from all over the world have also produced a Practical Guide to Measuring Women’s Empowerment in Impact Evaluations for this purpose.
In this lecture-based webinar, Shagun Sabarwal will draw on this body of work to discuss strategies to measure gender outcomes. Join us to explore ways in which we can apply measurement tools to generate rich evidence on improving gender outcomes.
Speakers
| Nome | Título | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Shagun Sabarwal | Director - Policy, Training and Communications | Shagun Sabarwal is Director of Policy, Training and Communications at J-PAL South Asia, and Director of the CLEAR South Asia Centre. Shagun provides strategic oversight and leads the capacity building portfolio under CLEAR South Asia where she works on strengthening M&E capacity in the region. |
Resumo
The constructs of empowerment, agency, and norms are often seen as nebulous and difficult-to-measure, and there are many challenges involved in measuring them. Yet it is critical to develop tools and strategies to do so, as these constructs are often some of the key outcomes in gender programming. Through this webinar, J-PAL/CLEAR South Asia presented concrete methods to measure empowerment, agency, and norms in impact evaluations. Participants were keen to dive deeper into specific measurement techniques, the relationships between norms, attitudes, and behaviours, and the role context plays in measurement of gender outcomes.
Participants received a link to the recording as well as the resources discussed during the webinar. If there is interest, we also hope to continue conversations with the participants who found the information discussed in the webinar useful, and explore possibilities for research and knowledge partnerships. The content from this webinar is likely to be translated into a longer workshop, that provides a more in-depth perspective on measurement of gender outcomes in impact evaluations.
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