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Table 6.1. Example of outputs, output indicators, and activities for a programme/project to enhance women’s economic empowerment
in a crisis or post-crisis situation
Outputs Output indicators Activities
Women’s employability
in crisis and
post crisis situation
enhanced
Capacity of institutions
that support
women’s economic
empowerment
strengthened
Women’s participation
in the development
of policies
for their economic
empowerment
expanded.
• Number of women benefitting
from immediate job creation
initiatives
• Number of women with established
small, micro and medium
enterprises
• Number of women and men
involved in domestic energy
enterprises and/or promotion
• Number of service providers
effectively enhancing women’s
economic empowerment
• Number of women with registered
businesses
• Time required to register a business
• Number of women entrepreneurs
participating in groups
• Number of women actively
engaged in advocacy for an
enabling policy environment for
women entrepreneurs
• Policy changes towards
women’s economic empowerment
• Design cash-for-work, start-up grants/packages, or cash transfer projects for women in
areas such as domestic energy, infrastructure, agriculture, and child care
• Provide business and vocational skills training to women, including training of trainers so
women entrepreneurs can provide counseling and skills training in their communities;
provide functional literacy and numeracy training to women entrepreneurs.
• Establish linkages with credit and savings groups that can help to stabilize newly created
and existing enterprises; promote public-private microfinance partnerships led by
women; encourage marginalized and poor women to save for income-generating investments
and unforeseen expenses.
• Promote market access for women entrepreneurs, e.g., opportunities to participate in
trade fairs.
• Provide alternative domestic energy sources that enhance access.
• Provide capacity development support for service providers (women entrepreneurs’
associations, microfinance institutions, local government, training institutions, business
development services, etc.), including management training, training of trainers, market
research, and “learning by doing” opportunities.
• Assist the implementing partner and responsible parties to mainstream gender into their
activities.
• Provide capacity development support for local and national government bodies involved
in registration, licensing, and regulation of businesses.
• Assist women entrepreneurs to organize themselves into groups (e.g. self-help groups,
associations, cooperatives) that facilitate their access to resources and service providers.
• Support “Start and Improve Your Business” (SIYB) projects that enable informal networks
of women entrepreneurs to evolve into business associations that effectively represent
their interests.
• Advocate for improvements in the legal and policy environment for women entrepreneurs.
• Raise awareness about women’s rights and gender roles and help to build self-confidence
among women, including women with disabilities; this may include training
women with disabilities to become members of the project management committee.
Addressing security issues. The vulnerability of women and children to sexual and
gender-based violence and other security threats usually increases sharply in crisis and
post-crisis situations. In some cases, when relief operations and rehabilitation support
services are designed without adequate attention to security concerns, such support
services can create security problems. . The following are some of the areas in which
livelihoods and economic recovery programming can be designed to enhance security
and avoid creating security risks:
• Strengthening the role of women’s groups and networks vis-à-vis providing financial,
physical, and psychosocial support to victims of violence and to women and children
who are particularly vulnerable to violence.
• Engaging men and boys regarding issues of violence against women and children.
• Providing training and otherwise raising awareness of women’s groups, police and
security forces, and other stakeholders vis-à-vis women’s security issues and concerns
and related human rights instruments and U.N. Security Council Resolutions. (See
Box 6.1 for a summary of international frameworks supporting gender equality and
women’s empowerment in crisis situations.)
Partnerships. Key partners for working effectively to support gender equality and
women’s economic empowerment through programmes for livelihoods and economic
Livelihoods & Economic Recovery in Crisis Situations