Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Email: elwamba 3ieimpact. We also aimed to identify barriers and facilitators that could affect the effectiveness of these interventions and to provide implications for policy, practice and research designs within the field of transitional aid. We used standard methodological procedures outlined by the Campbell Collaboration for the data collection and analysis, including quantitative and qualitative analyses, and completed the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations GRADE methodology to assess the certainty around each body of evidence.
Interventions supporting women's empowerment and gender equality in FCAS produced positive effects on the outcomes related to the primary focus of the intervention.
There are no significant negative effects of any included interventions. However, we observe smaller effects on behavioural outcomes further along the causal chain of empowerment. Qualitative syntheses indicated that gender norms and practices are potential barriers to intervention effectiveness, while working with local powers and institutions can facilitate the uptake and legitimacy of interventions. We observe gaps of rigorous evidence in certain regions notably MENA and Latin America and in interventions specifically targeting women as actors of peacebuilding.
Gender norms and practices are important elements to consider in programme design and implementation to maximise potential benefits: focusing on empowerment only might not be enough in the absence of targeting the restrictive gender norms and practices that may undermine intervention effectiveness. Interventions supporting women's empowerment and gender equality in FCAS produced, on average, positive effects on the outcomes related to the focus of the intervention.
Interventions do not achieve positive and significant effects for behavioural outcomes such as intimate partner violence IPV. Our SR includes unique studies covering 55 identified programmes and 32 linked impact evaluations papers, in addition to 90 linked qualitative and process evaluations. These studies took place in 29 countries identified as being particularly fragile and having a high level of gender inequality and all were published between and Most of the identified interventions have significant positive effects on empowerment and gender equality outcomes closely related to the purpose of the intervention.
