Annual Survey for Women’s Economic Empowerment through Strengthening Market Systems (“WEESMS”)

Client: iDE Bangladesh for the Embassy of Sweden

Period: April 2019 to May 2019

The WEESMS programme is a five-year initiative funded by the Embassy of Sweden, designed to increase women’s participation in the labour market in rural and peri-urban Bangladesh, with a significant focus on reducing gender inequality in the country’s entrepreneurship ecosystem. It aims to promote women’s entrepreneurship and strengthen the enabling environment for women to access formal and informal productive employment opportunities. CPL has been contracted to conduct the annual impact survey for the project. CPL measured annual changes in outcome indicators, gaps and challenges using Outcome Harvesting method, and WEE framework. The study used both qualitative and quantitative method with ODK based data collection.