Banyan Global implemented the global Women’s Economic Empowerment and Equality Technical Assistance (WE3 TA) task order, awarded through the Advancing the Agenda of Gender Equality (ADVANTAGE) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract. Under the direction of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation’s Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Hub (DDI/GenDev), Banyan Global provided advisory services to stakeholders to better analyze, design, implement, and monitor interventions addressing women’s economic empowerment and equality constraints and opportunities in support of USAID’s Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy. Banyan Global promoted WE3 in USAID programming by improving WE3-related USAID staff capacity, creating WE3 tools and resources, and enabling E3/GenDev to respond to Mission and operating unit requests for WE3 support. In addition, the WE3 TA addressed capacity gaps among USAID’s development partners, including other U.S. Government agencies, counterpart government agencies, private sector associations, and civil society organizations.

Under the WE3 TA, Banyan Global carried out the following work:

• Women’s Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality Technical Guide
• Peace Corps Digital Literacy for Women and Girls Tip Sheet
• WE3 Analysis of the Solid Waste Management and Recycling Sector
• Technical Assistance to USAID W-GDP and Private Sector Engagement Activities
• Training on WE3 in the Fisheries Sector
• WE3 Assessment on Integrating WE3 Into Labor, Small and Medium Enterprise Development, and The Enabling Environment in Sri Lanka
• Technical Assistance to the USAID W-GDP Fund Community of Practice Launch 
• Gender Digital Divide
• Women’s Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality in Trade Facilitation: The Role of Customs and Border Services
• Gender Inequality Causes Poverty
• USAID Clean Air Catalyst: Gender Analysis of Air Pollution and Vehicle Transport, India
• Supporting Women’s Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality Through Trade Briefer
• The Time Is Now To Accelerate Women’s Public Procurement: A Toolbox And Call To Action

Several of the products produced through WE3 TA, including the Women’s Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality Technical Guide, the Gender Digital Divide documents, and the WEEGE in Trade Facilitation: the Role of Customs and Border Services report, are also available on the Women’s Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality (WEEGE) Wiki on Marketlinks.