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Asking the Right Questions to Learn from our Program

In 2017, over 15,000 new women enrolled in WfWI’s core program to gain critical knowledge, skills, and resources to change their lives. But how can we know these women have benefitted from the program? Ask WfWI’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team.

Why We Are Investing in Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning in 2018

We believe their needs count, their experiences count, and their progress counts. We also believe that we must do everything we can to ensure women have access to the information, resources, and support they need to improve their economic and social well-being.

Can Women Save Their Way Out of Marginalization?

The problem of mandatory formalization in financial inclusion Saving up can be very powerful – there is liberation in the process of saving (“I can control my impulses and plan for the future”) and freedom in choosing outcomes enabled by savings (“I can buy that car”). In a 2014 review paper , I...

Reaching the Furthest Behind First

Breaking Silos: Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals A year ago September our world leaders committed us all to eradicate poverty by 2030, making a commitment in the Sustainable Development Goals to ‘leave no one behind’ and ‘reach the furthest behind first’. They explicitly recognized the...

Women Create and Connect to Networks for Support

Living in a village in rural Bosnia, Camila and other women in her community had few opportunities to leave their homes, and no say in public decisions. Patriarchal attitudes towards women reinforced Camila’s isolation and added to her family’s difficulties. Unable to leave her home to work, they...

Women Influence Decisions in the Home and Community

For years, Zainab suffered her husband’s beatings and abuse. Growing up in Nigeria, she was taught a woman’s rights came from her husband. When Zainab’s husband took a second wife, he often refused to give her money to feed their children. He became more violent towards her, and Zainab felt...

Women Develop Health and Well-being

Growing up in rural South Sudan, Regina never learned basic hygiene practices. She did not know that quickly rinsing utensils before serving food would not clean them. She did not realize that washing clothes with soap and sweeping her home were important to keeping her and her family healthy...

Nigeria Staff Urge #BringBackOurGirls

WfWI Nigerian Country Director Ngozi Eze calls for global action on social media to #BringBackOurGirls and ensure that the young women and girls kidnapped in Borno state are safely returned.

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