Can skills-based programs promote women’s economic inclusion? This study randomizes access to a program teaching entrepreneurship skills in rural Uganda. The program covers record-keeping, identifying...
An experiment using behavioral sciences significantly increased the number of applications to a natural resource management program from women in harder-to-reach localities, showing that rural women in...
Un experimento que aplicó ciencias del comportamiento logró aumentar de manera significativa el número de aplicaciones a un programa de gestión de recursos naturales de mujeres en localidades de difícil...
Does it matter whether poverty reduction programs target the female or male spouse? A randomized controllled trial in Ethiopia is used to study the differential impacts of easing information and financial...
Natural resources management (NRM) helps protect forests and promote sustainable development. Although women are key in strengthening activities in NRM, they are dramatically underrepresented in public...
This project is part of IFC’s continued investment in empowering women farmers, who play a vital role in smallholder agriculture, yet remain a major source of untapped human potential in developing economies...