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To fully realise gender equality and women’s empowerment, companies must move beyond strategies and policies that focus exclusively on the ‘business case’ for gender work.

How development programmes choose to measure the empowerment of women and girls impacts whether an intervention ultimately contributes to or impedes their empowerment. In a new paper, KIT Royal Tropical Institute provides insight and guidance on the value of participatory approaches, those that ground the measurement of empowerment in the lives and perspectives of women and girls.