Monthly Corner
IDH Publication, 2026
Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is not just a social issue, it’s a systemic challenge that undermines agricultural value chains.
In rural and isolated areas, GBV threatens women’s safety, limits their economic participation, and weakens food security. When women cannot work safely, entire communities lose resilience, and businesses lose productivity. Climate resilience strategies that overlook gendered risks leave communities exposed and women vulnerable.
Ending GBV is essential for building equitable, sustainable, and climate-resilient agri-food systems; and it’s not only a human rights imperative, but also central to climate adaptation and economic stability.
The good news? Solutions work. Programs like the Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund (WSAF) demonstrate that addressing GBV can enhance productivity and strengthen workforce morale and brand reputation. Safe, inclusive workplaces aren’t just good ethics, they’re smart business.
Gurmeet Kaur Articles
Luc Barriere-Constantin Article
This article draws on the experience gained by The Constellation over the past 20 years. It is also a proposal for a new M&E and Learning framework to be adopted and adapted in future projects of all community-focused organisations.
Devaka K.C. Article
Sudeshna Sengupta Chapter in the book "Dialogues on Development edited by Prof Arash Faizli and Prof Amitabh Kundu."
Events
Vacancies
- We’re Hiring: National Evaluation Consultant – Bangladesh
UN Women is recruiting a National Evaluation Consultant (Bangladesh) to support the interim evaluation of the Joint Regional EmPower Programme (Phase II).
This is a great opportunity to work closely with the Evaluation Team Leader and contribute to generating credible, gender-responsive evidence that informs decision-making and strengthens programme impact.
📍 Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh (home-based with travel to project locations)
📅 Apply by: 24 February 2026, 5:00 PM
🔗 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gar4ciRr
If you are passionate about feminist evaluation, gender equality, and rigorous evidence that drives change (or know someone who is) please apply or share within your networks.
- Seeking Senior Analyst - IPE Global
About the job
IPE Global Ltd. is a multi-disciplinary development sector consulting firm offering a range of integrated, innovative and high-quality services across several sectors and practices. We offer end-to-end consulting and project implementation services in the areas of Social and Economic Empowerment, Education and Skill Development, Public Health, Nutrition, WASH, Urban and Infrastructure Development, Private Sector Development, among others.
Over the last 26 years, IPE Global has successfully implemented over 1,200 projects in more than 100 countries. The group is headquartered in New Delhi, India with five international offices in United Kingdom, Kenya, Ethiopia, Philippines and Bangladesh. We partner with multilateral, bilateral, governments, corporates and not-for-profit entities in anchoring development agenda for sustained and equitable growth. We strive to create an enabling environment for path-breaking social and policy reforms that contribute to sustainable development.
Role Overview
IPE Global is seeking a motivated Senior Analyst – Low Carbon Pathways to strengthen and grow its Climate Change and Sustainability practice. The role will contribute to business development, program management, research, and technical delivery across climate mitigation, carbon markets, and energy transition. This position provides exceptional exposure to global climate policy, finance, and technology, working with a team of high-performing professionals and in collaboration with donors, foundations, research institutions, and public agencies.
Women empowerment: in which ways???
Many people including women leaders and social workers are excited about women empowerment in development and under developed country. It is true that in those countries, there have been created many opportunities to empowered women and now women especially poor women of those countries are empowered themselves than last decades. Access in Micro finance and borrowing microcredit and getting working opportunity in garment sectors and another big or small industries or business and other institutions make them financially solvent. Now Micro finance organizations help them to start a small or medium business and by getting these opportunities they can earn and help others to be solvent women. Now they can income money for themselves and able to contribute in families which wasn’t thinkable in few years ago in development and under developed countries. They also play a good roll in the economic growths of those countries.
However, is financially solvencies can only the factor of empowering someone?
Maybe not, especially when the person is uneducated.
In developing and non-developed countries, most of the poor women are uneducated or have little education. They have no clear idea about law and rights. They are deceived from modern technology in their own life. In addition, they are in the dark about modern and developed countries, societies, and cultures and status and situation of women of those arenas. For this reason, they can’t play a vital roll in decision-making process in their families. Also, can’t use their earned money as their willingness. Only education can change and improve their existing life and livelihood to a beautiful and brightening life.
The women business persons who have no education or little education and have no facility or opportunity to learn and use the modern knowledge and training, have also faced the same problem at their small and medium business institutions. Without taking proper education and useful training no one can empower own self. Also no one or any organization can empower others.
When Micro Finance organizations are lending micro credit to some people (most of them women) then they have only trained the borrowers about their proposed works or projects. However, it is same in garment sectors. But, there are no scopes to educate the workers about several matters that are helpful to smoothly lead their life and empowering themselves.
So we should to think, in which way women will be really empowered.
If we aren’t able to educate our poor women we can’t fully empowered them. We should teach and instruct them about several subjects that are valuable for their life. If they can’t read and write then teach them how to read and write. They have to aware about their rights and law and encourage playing a vital roll in family’s decision-making process. In this way, our women can really empower themselves.
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Comment by Passanna on August 25, 2014 at 9:56 -
My research focuses on empowerment in the micro credit/micro finance sector.
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Comment by Passanna on August 25, 2014 at 9:56
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Hi, Lately I have been reading alot on this whole empowerment issue...because working in the development sector for years I freak out when people say we have empowered women or through our interventions women are being empowered! It is shocking to see how loosely the word empowerment is used. I am doing a research to find out whether all development/donor initiatives are empowering women or double burdenin, over expoiting, and exposing them to social issues like GBV. Would any of you know how I can lay my hands on some really researches done, with research questions etc....
Mnay thanks
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