Collective Action and Women’s Agency: Background paper | Women’s Voice, Agency, & Participation Research Series No.4

A component of this work is a review of evidence on the relationship between collective action and women’s agency: whether and how different forms of collective action enhance women’s ability to exercise agency in key domains (what the WDR 2012 terms “expressions of agency”) and the operational implications for Bank policies and programmes. This is the focus of this paper.