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Strengthening women’s empowerment and gender equality in fragile contexts

Across the globe, women face tremendous challenges when it comes to equitable access to resources, exercising meaningful agency and decision-making power and aspiring to and accomplishing achievements. Despite gains made in recent decades towards inclusion and empowerment, significant challenges still remain for women, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected settings where these challenges are exacerbated. To help identify what approaches can improve women’s empowerment in fragile settings with high levels of gender inequality, this systematic review synthesises the evidence on the effects of 14 different types of gender-sensitive and gender-transformative interventions. Our systematic review includes 104 unique studies covering 55 identified programmes and 32 linked impact evaluations papers, in addition to 90 linked qualitative and process evaluations. These studies took place in 29 countries identified as being particularly fragile and having a high level of gender inequality and all were published between 2009 and 2021. Of the quasi-experimental studies included, almost half were deemed as having a high risk of bias, and we assessed nearly all remaining quasi-experimental studies as having some risk of bias concerns. Among the studies using an experimental design, only around one third were assessed as having a high risk of bias. For more information please visit: