Liberia Women Empowerment Project

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The project will integrate community-led livelihoods opportunities for women with social initiatives to improve accesses to health and education services, build voice and agency and change harmful norms. This approach aligns with the growing evidence that bundledinterventions are more impactful for women than singular ones, and that combined initiatives can be effective in both strengthening women’s economic position and improving gender attitudes, violence prevention and women’s agency, resulting in improvements in women's empowerment. Integrating these concepts is a promising pathway for both women's empowerment and economic growth in Liberia. The project will also support capacity-building for the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection and other ministries that hold mandates for women's economic empowerment, gender-based violence and gender equality. The project will generate key learnings on “what works” to empower women, and how economic support and norm change activities can be implemented together at scale by government actors.