Empowering women builds a sustainable future for all

What is different about the W+ Standard?

The W+ Standard, created by WOCAN, is the first women-specific standard that measures women’s empowerment in a transparent and quantifiable manner, gives a monetary value to results and creates a new channel to direct financial resources to women.

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Financing Women's Organizations & Entrepreneurs Using Climate Finance & Markets

Women’s Empowerment for Climate Action: the W+ Standard

How the W+ Standard works

Provides a framework

to measure results of women’s empowerment activities and report on SDG 5

Translates independently

verified results into W+ certification, generating W+ units or a label

A share of the value

of W+ units or label goes to women engaged in the projects

What gets measured becomes visible and valued

The W+ Standard measures six domains that are critical for women’s empowerment: Time savings, Income & Assets, Health, Leadership, Education & Knowledge and Food Security. These were determined together with rural women from Nepal and Kenya. Methods were developed to measure and quantify progress for each of these domains.

W+ domains

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