Relevance of sharing the results and positive findings of the randomised-control trial and the intervention, as well as the recommendations for practitioners, including robust evidence of the heterogeneous effect of the project.

Timing of funding might significantly affect the results of this project. Funding follows short periods of only 1-2 years. Not enough time to implement actual transformation. Must focus on not doing short rounds of funding for this level of expected outcomes (women’s empowerment).

Important to consider targeting differently the beneficiaries based upon their own characteristics before launching the project. In this project, there was a single standardised gender intervention for all, which did not take into account that women have different levels of empowerment. Some beneficiaries had a level of empowerment, which allowed them to benefit better from the project’s interventions, others were already empowered, consequently the intervention did not change their status, and meanwhile the least empowered might have improved their empowerment, but did not reached the project’s goals. Based on these findings, this study concludes the need for tailored interventions based on different levels of individual characteristics at baseline.