Stangl, Anne; Farley, Kathryn; Sievwright, Kirsty; Brady, Laura; Fritz, Katherine, 2015, Enhancing women’s entrepreneurship in Kenya: Initial qualitative assessment of the ILO’s GET Ahead business training programme

2.4 APPROACHES TO ENHANCE LIVELIHOODS, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

2.4.5. Strengthening IE with attention to gender issues

Recommendation: 4) Include in project design attention to women’s empowerment within the household and community. Household and community empowerment can also be the result of economic empowerment but is best specifically stimulated in conjunction with economic empowerment.

Reference: Stangl, Anne; Farley, Kathryn; Sievwright, Kirsty; Brady, Laura; Fritz, Katherine, 2015, Enhancing women’s entrepreneurship in Kenya: Initial qualitative assessment of the ILO’s GET Ahead business training programme (Kenya), Impact evaluation, ILO, Geneva.

Evidence sample: Business training leads to a broad range of positive outcomes among women, from improved business practices to increased skills and higher empowerment.