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End-term Evaluation of Women’s Economic Empowerment through Strengthening Market Systems (“WEESMS”) project, Bangladesh

End-term Evaluation of Women’s Economic Empowerment through Strengthening Market Systems (“WEESMS”) project, Bangladesh

Final Report

  • År: 2021

  • Publikationstyp: Decentraliserad utvärdering

  • Författare: Daniel Ticehurst, Eric Derks, Kimiko Hibri Pedersen, Reza Patwary, Shamima Aktar

Sammanfattning

WEESMS is a market system development project focusing on the economic empowerment of women in two division of Bangladesh,
working with women MSMEs in rural areas and off-farm sectors. In line with its objective of assessing systemic change, the
evaluation concludes that WEESMS has shown some manifestation of systemic change primarily in relation to its model of integrating
rural women businesses in online business to consumer platforms that gained visibility and seem to have triggered crowding-in. Its
intervention on market linkages particularly its support to the participation of women businesses in fairs in and outside their regions,
and the upskilling of workers on jute production, a skill that not many had, improved women’s access to resources and opportunities.
The ability to make own decisions regarding their economic participation remains a challenge for many, particularly workers. A more
targeted, tailored, integrated and differentiated approach would benefit the project in the future.

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  • Tematik: Ekonomisk utveckling

  • Geografiskt område: Bangladesh

  • Språk: Engelska

  • Publikationsnummer: 2021:36

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