Kamwaba Mtethiwa Jean

Development of a Women’s Empowerment metric for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WE-WASH)

• Author(s): Heckert, Jessica, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Myers, Emily, Ramani, Gayathri V., Faas, Simone, Ferguson, Nathaniel, Seymour, Greg, Malapit, Hazel J., Paz, Flor, Chiwasa, Febbie, Chilalika, Joan, Kamwaba-Mtethiwa, Jean, Chirwa, Gowokani Chijere, Simkoko, Abigail, Chilungo, Abdallah, Upadhyaya, Rachana, Pradhan, Meeta S., Joshi, Nira, Shrestha, Sanish

• Categories: Political Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2023-12-04
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• Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

There is a growing focus on gender-sensitive approaches and women’s empowerment in the water, sanitation, and hygiene sectors. At the same time, there is a lack of metrics to measure women’s empowerment in the WASH sector. Such metrics are important for understanding the types of programmatic interventions that are most needed for addressing women’s empowerment, as well as for assessing their impacts on women’s empowerment. In this report, we describe the development of a Women’s Empowerment metrics for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WE-WASH). We collected data from individual women and men in 812 households in Malawi and 826 households in Nepal. Using the data, we develop 14 indi...