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Economic Empowerment: A Potential Pathway for Women and Girls to Gain Control Over Their Sexual and Reproductive Health

This brief summarizes the current evidence on interventions used by family planning programs that sought to improve women’s or girls’ economic empowerment and that measured key family planning outcomes.

The interventions cluster in three primary focus areas:

  • Vocational training
  • Microfinance
  • Cash transfers

Last modified: November 11, 2020

Language: English