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Women’s Economic Empowerment: Pushing the Frontiers of Inclusive Market Development

Authors:
USAID
Year Published:
2014
Resource Type:
Technical Guidance
Language:
English

Inclusive market systems development is increasingly recognized as an approach that empowers poor and marginalized people.  The Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) project aims to improve USAID programs, projects, and activities focused on creating inclusive market systems. To support this process, LEO has developed a framework that defines market systems and offers general guidelines for interventions. The framework presented in this paper identifies gender considerations and provides examples for facilitating women’s economic empowerment in inclusive market systems.