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Voice and agency, empowering women and girls for shared prosperity, Jeni Klugman, Lucia Hanmer, Sarah Twigg, Tazeen Hasan, Jennifer McCleary-Sills, Julieth Santamaria

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Jeni Klugman, Lucia Hanmer, Sarah Twigg, Tazeen Hasan, Jennifer McCleary-Sills, Julieth Santamaria

empowering women and girls for shared prosperity

1. Framing the challenge: Norms, constraints, and deprivations. Why agency? -- Why does agency matter for development? -- Our conceptual framework -- Overlapping disadvantages and deprivations. Overlapping disadvantages [and] Multiple deprivations. -- Focus on key drivers: Social norms and the law. Social norms [and] Norms and the law2. Enhancing women's agency: A cross-cutting agenda. The role of cross-cutting public actions -- Changing social norms. Changing norms by working with men and boys, households, and communities [and] Using broadcast media. -- A progressive legal framework. Evolving constitutions and principles of equality [and] Supporting effective implementation and enforcement [and] Expanding access to justice through customary processes. -- Increasing women’s agency through sectoral policies and programs. Expanding economic opportunities and training [and] Designing gender-responsive social protection [and] Increasing gender equality in education3. Freedom from violence: Gender-based violence as a development challenge. How large is the challenge? Prevalence of intimate partner violence [and] Reporting and responses. -- Costs of violence. Individual-level effects [and] Family-level effects [and] Economywide effects [and] Who is worst affected? -- The state of the evidence: What works? Boosting of positive gender norms [and] Legal reform and responses [and] Social support and services [and] Economic empowerment (plus) [and] Integration of violence prevention into other sectoral interventions4. Control over sexual and reproductive health and rights. The nature of the challenge -- How great is the challenge? Fertility choices [and] Early sexual activity and pregnancy [and] Child marriage. -- Program and policy evidence: What works? Engaging men and other gatekeepers [and] Improving access to and quality of information and services [and] Promoting alternatives to early marriage [and] Implementing legal responses5. Control over land and housing. Women’s control over land and housing as a development challenge. Potentially transformative effects [and] What do ownership and control mean? -- How large is the challenge? Existing disparities [and] Marital status and work [and] Laws and norms [and] Default marital property regimes. -- Weak implementation of laws -- The state of the evidence: What works? Ensuring gender equality under the law [and] Ensuring effective implementation of laws and land policies6. Amplifying voices. Why women’s voice and participation matter -- Driving social change for women’s agency: The role of ICTs. Using ICTs to increase voice and participation [and] Addressing the digital divide. -- Collective action as a catalyst for change -- The potential of women’s political voice and participation. Underrepresentation and biased gender norms [and] Attitudes toward female leadership that affect women’s political participation [and] Quotas that reduce barriers to women’s participation. -- Implications for policy. Increasing access to ICTs and making content relevant [and] Supporting collective action [and] Increasing accountability [and] Finding opportunities to expand women’s political participation