Not just a drop in the bucket: Measuring women’s empowerment in water, sanitation, and hygiene

Download or read book Not just a drop in the bucket: Measuring women’s empowerment in water, sanitation, and hygiene written by Myers, Emily and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the lack of consensus around how to measure empowerment in WASH, mapping existing indicators to two frameworks frequently used in the empowerment literature illustrates knowledge gaps. We identified 290 gender-sensitive indicators across nine WASH themes that were mapped to the Reach-Benefit-Empower and Resources-Agency-Achievements frameworks. Most indicators measure “Benefit” and/or “Resources.” Existing gender-sensitive indicators capturing empowerment and agency in WASH are lacking; only 10.3% of indicators capture “Empower” and 24.8% of indicators capture “Agency.”