The women's leadership assessment framework and associated tools were developed as part of UN Women’s signature intervention, the Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) programme, through consultation with key actors, in addition to building on existing approaches to measuring women’s leadership and participation in COVID-19 responses and localization.
The purpose of the framework and tools is to assess women's transformative leadership at the national, subnational, or organizational level by measuring women's safe and meaningful participation, collective influencing and advocacy, enabling partnerships, capacity for supporting leadership and funding. Application of the framework and tools can assess progress, gaps, barriers and opportunities to women’s leadership and meaningful participation in disaster and climate resilience building.
The framework and tools can be applied at the start of an intervention or programme (to provide a baseline against which to measure progress), during an intervention of programme to take stock of progress and to identify barriers and opportunities for strengthening women’s leadership in disaster and climate resilience, or as an end line or evaluation tool.