Vulnerability mapping: A conceptual framework towards a context-based approach to women's empowerment

Christie M Gressel; Tarek Rashed; Laura Aswati Maciuika; Srividya Sheshadri; Christopher Coley; Sreeram Kongeseri; Rao R Bhavani

doi:10.1016/j.wdp.2020.100245

Vulnerability mapping: A conceptual framework towards a context-based approach to women's empowerment

World Dev Perspect. 2020 Dec:20:100245. doi: 10.1016/j.wdp.2020.100245. Epub 2020 Aug 18.

Authors

Christie M Gressel¹, Tarek Rashed¹, Laura Aswati Maciuika¹, Srividya Sheshadri¹, Christopher Coley¹, Sreeram Kongeseri¹, Rao R Bhavani¹

Affiliation

¹ Center for Women's Empowerment & Gender Equality, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, India.

Abstract

•Women's empowerment interventions are not as effective as hoped or intended.•Could be an issue with intervention design and implementation.•Research reveals that there are several limitations to existing women's empowerment approaches.•These include disregard of context, a non-holistic approach, difficulty measuring variables, etc.•Vulnerability mapping may be able to address these limitations; we present an adapted framework.