Empowerment in WASH Index (SEI Discussion brief)

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This brief presents a new Empowerment in WASH Index (EWI) that is designed to measure empowerment in the WASH sector. The Empowerment in WASH Index (EWI) is a new survey-based tool to measure women’s empowerment and gender outcomes in the WASH sector. EWI can help to fill key gender data gaps in the sector. EWI can be used to inform better design of WASH interventions, and to monitor and evaluate WASH-related gender outcomes. We describe how the EWI tool is constructed using a series of indicators, and a case study applying the EWI in Burkina Faso.

Authors: Dickin, S; Bisung, E

• Publication status: Published
• Publisher: Stockholm Environment Institute
• Publication date: 2019-09-01
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-6qrnk21zj
• Language: English
• Keywords: sanitation; water security; Burkina Faso; WASH; gender; 201880; water; REACH; hygiene