The Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies joined the American University of Beirut and its Suliman S. Olayan School of Business to serve as the Yemen country partner for the regional project “The Knowledge is Power (KIP) Index: A Comparison of the Status of Women in the MENA Economies.” The Sana’a Center supported the project by providing data collection, technical analysis, and recommendations to assess the status of women’s recruitment, retention, and promotion in the formal labor market in Yemen.

The project aimed to develop a comprehensive data-driven index that provides economic stakeholders with knowledge and recommendations for improving women’s recruitment, retention, and promotion in the formal economies in the MENA region, with a specific focus on Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, and Iraq. The KIP index was visualized to compare the roles and challenges affecting women’s economic participation.