Introduction to the WEEGE Wiki

Greater women’s economic empowerment and gender equality (WEEGE) can reduce poverty, promote prosperity and improve development outcomes for future generations. This wiki is intended to help USAID staff, implementing partners and development practitioners to understand, address constraints to, and advance women’s economic empowerment and gender equality in their work

What is a wiki?

A wiki is an online collection of resources that provides information in an easy-to-follow format. New resources and guidance will be added to this wiki as research on WEEGE evolves in order to ensure that the information presented on the wiki is up-to-date and relevant to the user.

Who should use this wiki?

This wiki and its content were primarily developed for USAID staff and implementing partners but can be used by anyone looking to deepen their knowledge of women’s economic empowerment and gender equality. 

What will you find?

This wiki provides research and practical tools, resources and other documents to help USAID staff, implementing partners and development practitioners better understand and integrate WEEGE considerations into their work. The wiki is divided into four sets of documents:

How do you use this wiki?

Use the left-hand navigation links to navigate to a specific set of documents, or feel free to explore them in any order.

 

DISCLAIMER

The authors’ views expressed in this wiki do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government. This wiki was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by Banyan Global for the Women’s Economic Empowerment and Equality Technical Assistance task order under the Advancing the Agenda of Gender Equality (ADVANTAGE) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) Contract No. AID-OAA-I-14-00050/7200AA18F00018. In addition, components of the Women’s Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality Technical Guide incorporate and build upon work previously prepared by FHI 360 under (USAID) Cooperative Agreement No. AID-OAA-A-14-00097, under Leader Award No. EEM-A-00-06-00001.