"This toolkit is designed for development practitioners, government officials, academics, monitoring and evaluation specialists, and researchers who are interested in measuring empowerment. The learning objectives of this toolkit are: Users gain a general understanding of empowerment and empowerment indices, the importance of measuring empowerment and how a framework can help to measure empowerment. Users understand the various dimensions of COL’s Three-Dimensional Empowerment Framework and how it aligns with the definition of empowerment. Users learn what Likert questions are and some best practices for developing them. Users are able to use the framework to develop a range of Likert questions that address the various facets of empowerment. Users are able to enter data, calculate the index scores and do basic preliminary/ descriptive analysis in Microsoft Excel." (Page 1)