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CARE’s Strategic Impact Inquiry: From Women’s Empowerment to Girls’ Empowerment

CARE’s Strategic Impact Inquiry: From Women’s Empowerment to Girls’ Empowerment. 2007 Gender & Education Symposium Engaging our Differences – CIES 2007 Baltimore, Maryland: February 26, 2007. Margaret Meagher Basic & Girls’ Education.

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CARE’s Strategic Impact Inquiry: From Women’s Empowerment to Girls’ Empowerment

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  1. CARE’s Strategic Impact Inquiry: From Women’s Empowerment to Girls’ Empowerment 2007 Gender & Education Symposium Engaging our Differences – CIES 2007 Baltimore, Maryland: February 26, 2007 Margaret Meagher Basic & Girls’ Education

  2. CARE’s Strategic Impact Inquiry (SII) on Women’s EmpowermentPhase I (2005-2006) • Research in a handful of sites • Used empowerment model (agency-structure- • relations) to guide research • Identified appropriate indicators for locally-identified • most relevant sub-dimensions of women’s • empowerment to measure impact • No attempt to hold empowerment measures • constant

  3. Key Questions • What contributions have CARE programs made, if any, to the empowerment of women and the advancement of gender equity? We will explore this through changes in women’s own agency, in the power structures around them, and through the nature of relationships in which they engage. • What evidence (pro and con) exists regarding the link between (a) CAREs program approaches and principles, (b) CARE’s internal gender equity and diversity practices and (c) the advancement of gender equity and empowerment? We will explore this through comparing the effectiveness of different approaches CARE has pursued, and the implications of CARE’s own institutional form.

  4. CARE’s Strategic Impact Inquiry (SII) on Women’s EmpowermentPhase II (2006-2007) • Expanded to 30 research sites & secondary data • from 1,000 projects • Continue local generation of empowerment • evidence categories that most matter to women • Added exploration of structural and relational • changes systematically across contexts • Began to identify core sub-dimensions of • empowerment & corresponding indicators

  5. From Adult to Child-Centric ApproachesGirls’ Empowerment through Education

  6. PCTFI Indicators

  7. ATTAINMENT (Increase Basic Education Attainment)

  8. EQUALITY (Improve Gender Equality in Basic Education)

  9. QUALITY (Enhance Quality of Basic Education)

  10. EMPOWERMENT

  11. Girls’ Education & Empowerment SII2007-2008 • Model Women’s Empowerment SII research process • Focus on Girls’ Education and Empowerment • Operationalized through Regional Education Networks

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