Toolkit theme: External Resources
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GET Ahead: Gender and Entrepreneurship Together (Implementation Guide 2017)
Comprehensive gender-responsive training program for women with basic literacy. Includes peer learning, hands-on activities, business plan development, and post-training coaching. Used in 30+ countries, helped 500,000+ women. Modules cover business basics plus gender norms, household demands, networking, mobility. Organisation: International Labour Organization
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Women’s Enterprises in a Changing Climate: Barriers and Opportunities
Documents women’s knowledge and capacity-building for climate adaptation among female entrepreneurs. Integrates value chain approach addressing livelihoods and climate resilience. Critical for energy/climate projects. Organisation: International Center for Research on Women
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Building Effective Women’s Economic Empowerment Strategies
Helps companies focus WEE strategies across four sectors: ICT, healthcare, financial services, and consumer products. Corporate engagement approach. Organisation: International Center for Research on Women
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Women’s Economic Empowerment: A Smart Investment
Explores how U.S. government can make effective WEE investments. Goes beyond earnings to address agency and decision-making over economic resources and institutions. Organization: International Center for Research on Women
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Understanding and Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment
Fundamental resource providing clear WEE definitions, a measurement framework to guide program design/implementation/evaluation, and illustrative indicators. Essential for practitioners designing measurable interventions. Organizations: International Center for Research on Women
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CARE Farmer Field and Business School (FFBS) Approach
Teaches farming, business, and nutrition together. Uses climate-smart techniques, market access, and gender-transformative dialogue. Works through VSLAs and farmer collectives. Organisation: CARE
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Advancing Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion – Policy Options
10 policy options for advancing women’s digital financial inclusion. Covers DFS enablers, regulatory reform, sex-disaggregated data, and digital literacy. Organisation: G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI)
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Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs)
Seven principles for business to advance women in workplace, marketplace and community. Includes CEO Statement of Support, implementation guidance, and self-assessment tools. Organisation: UN Global Compact & UN Women
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UNDP Gender and Recovery Toolkit
Seven guidance notes for putting gender equality at the core of recovery processes. Covers crisis response, climate change, peacebuilding, and gender equality. Organisation: UNDP
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Training for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
Transformative training processes providing knowledge, techniques and tools for skills development and attitude changes. Includes self-paced online courses. Organisation: UN Women
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Farmer Field and Business School Toolkit
Comprehensive toolkit covering facilitation, collectives, gender, sustainable agriculture, marketing, nutrition, and M&E. Aims to reach 25 million producers by 2027. Organisation: CARE International
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A Data-Driven Path to Women’s Financial Inclusion
Shows how sex-disaggregated data can accelerate women’s financial inclusion. Covers data collection, analysis, and use in product design and policy. Organisation: Data2X & World Bank