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Reducing Barriers to Women’s Economic Empowerment in El Salvador and Honduras – Final Evaluation Report

The Reducing Barriers to Women’s Economic Empowerment in El Salvador and Honduras Initiative (RBI), under the leadership of Grameen Foundation USA (Grameen), was the first initiative under the Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) program funded by the US Department of State, Secretary’s Office for Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI). With the support of financial service providers (FSP), RBI sought to examine and create an enabling environment for women entrepreneurs by addressing gender and social norms, exogenous shocks and stresses, and other barriers that inhibit women’s abilities to start up, finance, and/or grow their businesses, including threats of gender-based violence (GBV). The RBI initiative conducted a mixed-methods evaluation of the Kiva-supported line of credit for the FSPs, the Resilient Life, Resilient Business (RLRB) curriculum, the Gender, Conflict, and Power Dynamics (GCPD) workshop, linkage to CuéntaNos (a GBV-support organization), and Social Performance Management (SPM) Gender Assessment activities to better understand whether RBI project activities achieved their intended outcomes. The report summarizes the findings from the final evaluation.

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