Gender, Voice, and Agency - Multilateral Development Banks Sponsored Workshop

The workshop focuses on women’s and girls’ “agency” – the ability to make decisions about their life, voice out their needs, and act upon them.

It will discuss and share key conceptual frameworks, research findings, and promising approaches in the following five expressions of voice and agency:

• freedom from violence;
• access to and control over productive assets and resources;
• freedom of movement;
• voice and participation in national and local governance structure, and decision-making processes; and
• decision making over family formation.

The workshop will also explore the overarching legal frameworks and institutions including civil registration and legal identify to enhance women's agency.