This project is a multidisciplinary overview and synthesis of current scholarship on strategies to increase women’s civic and political participation in the developing world and to assess the risks of these strategies to women. Using a systematic method for meta-analysis, we identify points of consensus, debates and gaps where future research on strengthening women's participation is needed. The meta-analysis is compiled in a Rapid Knowledge Map (a searchable excel file) that we created as part of our research strategy (to be published online). A secondary goal is to provide a useful guide to the current English language literature on women’s civic and political participation for an international women's studies audience. This dataset contains the Rapid Knowledge Map and Codebook. This project and the related rapid knowledge map were developed from an interdisciplinary research group with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).