This tools for measuring gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) indicators in humanitarian settings: Effective measurement of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) is challenging in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), and even more so in humanitarian settings. Conflict, natural disasters, and epidemics may increase gender inequities, but also present an opportunity to address them. This scoping review describes and identifies gaps in the measurement tools, methods, and indicators used to measure GEWE in humanitarian settings, and presents a dashboard that can be used by researchers, organizations and governments to identify GEWE measurement tools

Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment are key components of improving the wellbeing of all people [1]. Goal five of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focuses on achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls (Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls). Key targets of this goal include ending discrimination against women and girls, eliminating violence/harmful practices that target women and girls, recognizing the unpaid care/domestic labor performed by women, ensuring equal opportunities for women’s participation and leadership, and securing universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all women and girls [1]. It is estimated that more than 80 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide due to conflict, persecution, and other human rights violations at mid-2020 [2]. These crises disproportionately affect the wellbeing of women and children as a result of pre-existing biological and sociocultural factors [3, 4]. Women may have less access to finances, goods and training to protect themselves during crises [3]. They also bear the majority of the caregiving responsibilities in many of these settings [4]. Women and girls represent just over 50% of the global refugee and IDP populations, yet only 4% of projects in the UN inter-agency appeals targeted women and girls in 2014 [5]. Furthermore, these crises can exacerbate gender inequalities and risks for women and girls [6], making it important to employ gender-appropriate tools when collecting data about women and girls in humanitarian settings. Gender appropriate tools are crucial when seeking to understand gender equality, as they provide sex-disaggregated indicators, along with indicators that are specific to the sociocultural, health and safety needs of women and girls [7