Women’s empowerment and value chains: Experiences of women in Cambodia, Palestine and Uganda

This paper presents findings of an evaluation undertaken by ActionAid Australia and local partners in Uganda, Palestine and Cambodia to understand how changes in economic participation affect women’s lives, and how women value these changes. The projects were supported through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP). It is timely to revisit women’s empowerment as aid agencies around the world recognise the importance of supporting women and increasingly focus on economic empowerment as a means to achieve this. The study confirmed the significance of economic empowerment for women and highlighted that economic empowerment is more than a question of money.