Gender Tools and Resources

Business Enabling Environment

IFC helps governments understand the gender dimensions of business reform and growth. Work includes assessments on barriers that women face in doing business, surveys, and capacity building for women's groups to advocate for change.

Global

• Gender Equal Land Laws: Driving Businesses Forward (PDF, 414kb)

• Gender and Growth Assessment Approach (2005) (PDF, 86kb)

• Engaging Women in Public-Private Dialogue (2005) (PDF, 114kb)

Africa Region

• Making the Investment Climate Work for Women (PDF, 89kb)

Angola

• A Situação das Mulheres Empresárias de Luanda (Portuguese only) (November 2007) (PDF, 481kb)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Voices of Women Entrepreneurs in Bosnia and Herzegovina (PDF, 3.8mb)

Ghana

• Gender and Economic Growth Assessment for Ghana 2007 (PDF, 2.34mb)

• Voices of Women Entrepreneurs in Ghana (April 2007) (PDF, 3.8mb)

Indonesia

• Voices of Women in the Private Sector (PDF, 9.11mb)

Kenya

• Gender and Economic Growth in Kenya: Unleashing the Power of Women (2007) (PDF, 1.09mb)

• Voices of Women Entrepreneurs in Kenya (May 2006) (PDF, 2.16mb)

Middle East and North Africa Region

• Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa: Characteristics, Contributions and Challenges (June 2007)
  • Full Report: English (1.85mb) | (1.12mb) عربي
  • Executive Summary: English (715kb) | (883kb) عربي

• What (Business)Women Want — Employing Surveys to Expand our Knowledge about the State of Female Entrepreneurship in MENA Region

• PEP MENA Gender Entrepreneurship Markets Analysis Tool (August 2005) (PDF, 1.84mb)

Mozambique

• Survey on the Status of Business Women in Mozambique
  • Full Report (PDF, 448kb)
  • Appendix I: Survey Questionnare (PDF, 125kb)
  • Appendix II: Profile of ACTIVA's members (PDF, 59kb)
  • Appendix III: Profile of ACTIVA's potential members (PDF, 129kb)

Senegal

• Women Entrepreneurs Guide for Senegal, in French (June 2006) (PDF, 825kb)

Tanzania

• Gender and Economic Growth in Tanzania (2007) (PDF 1.04mb)

• Voices of Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania (August 2007) (PDF, 986kb)

Tunisia

• Les Femmes Chefs d'Entreprises en Tunisie (June 2008) (PDF, 381kb)

Uganda

• Gender and Economic Growth in Uganda (2005) (PDF, 1.4mb)

• Public Private Partnerships — Promoting Gender Equity — The Gender and Growth Assessment for Uganda (PDF, 184kb)

United Arab Emirates

• Women Business Owners in the United Arab Emirates (December 2007) (PDF 1.74mb)

Vietnam

• MPDF/IFC GEM Survey of Women Business Owners in Vietnam (March 2006) (PDF, 533kb)

• Voices of Vietnamese Women Entrepreneurs (September 2006) (PDF, 1.22mb)