Women face barriers that limit their access to political and representative resources, their potential to exercise political agency, and their ability to achieve political goals.  Socio-cultural norms and lack of economic opportunities inhibit women’s ability to build skillsets and become political leaders. To address these challenges, interventions must lead with thorough analyses of the core problems and their root causes that hinder women’s political empowerment. While there are many gender frameworks that you could use, the MEL team uses Naila Kabeer’s Women’s Empowerment Framework to analyze the core problems and their root causes and design an intervention that addresses them.