Meital Kupfer

Meital Kupfer
Designation: Former Research Associate, 3ie
Meital worked on the production of systematic reviews, evidence gap maps and contributes to the Development Evidence Portal. She supported the production of a systematic review of gender and women's empowerment. Meital's background is in refugee and migration response, gender and women's empowerment programming and community-based development in East and Central Africa as well as the Middle East.

Blogs by author

Why we need qualitative evidence in systematic reviews: the case of the Gender SR

Meital Kupfer, Nkululeko Tshabalala, Promise Nduku, Laurenz Langer, Etienne Lwamba, Shannon Shisler 07 October 2021 blog  
We recently completed a new systematic review, ‘Strengthening women’s empowerment and gender equality in fragile contexts towards peaceful and inclusive societies’. This systematic review, also called the Gender SR, examined 14 gender-specific and gender-transformative interventions focusing on women’s empowerment in fragile contexts.

What works to empower women in fragile settings?

Will Ridlehoover, Etienne Lwamba, Meital Kupfer, Shannon Shisler 29 July 2021 blog  
Across the globe, women face tremendous challenges when it comes to equitable access to resources, exercising meaningful agency and decision-making power and aspiring to and accomplishing achievements. In fragile and conflict-affected settings, those challenges are often exacerbated, as women are particularly vulnerable and often left out of decision-making.

A systematic approach to building the evidence base for gender equality and women’s empowerment in fragile contexts

Meital Kupfer, Will Ridlehoover, Etienne Lwamba, Shannon Shisler, Ada Sonnenfeld 03 February 2021 blog  
In 2020, 23 per cent of the world’s population lived in fragile contexts, including 76.5 per cent of all those living in extreme poverty. While women comprise about half of the population in fragile and conflict-affected contexts (FCAS), there are often major gaps in how interventions in these settings consider their inclusion and empowerment.