Tools for measuring gender equality and women's empowerment (GEWE) indicators in humanitarian settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective measurement of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (GEWE) is challenging in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), and even more so in humanitarian settings. Conflict, natural disasters, and epidemics may increase gender inequities, but also present an opportunity to address them. This scoping review describes and identifies gaps in the measurement tools, methods, and indicators used to measure GEWE in humanitarian settings, and presents a dashboard that can be used by researchers, organizations and governments to identify GEWE measurement tools.

Methods

Scientific articles published between January 2004 and November 2019 were identified using Embase, Medline, PsycInfo, CINAHL, Scopus, and PAIS index. Relevant non peer-reviewed literature was downl

SUBMITTER: Goulart CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8127307 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature