TITLE: Measurement properties of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index ABSTRACT: Given the need for valid measures of women’s empowerment to monitor SDG5 and design advantages of pro-WEAI, an assessment of its measurement properties is warranted. This paper has three aims: 1) to assess in two GAAP2 projects the measurement properties of survey question >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Perceived tenure (in)security in the era of rural transformation: Gender-disaggregated analysis from Mozambique
TITLE: Perceived tenure (in)security in the era of rural transformation: Gender-disaggregated analysis from Mozambique ABSTRACT: This study examines the drivers of tenure insecurity in Mozambique using data from the National Agricultural Survey (TIA) 2014 as well as a follow-up supplemental survey with detailed land tenure gender-disaggregated data from three groups: namely, principal male, principal female, and female >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI)
TITLE: Development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) ABSTRACT: In this paper, the authors describe the adaptation and validation of a project-level WEAI (or pro-WEAI) that agricultural development projects can use to identify key areas of women’s (and men’s) disempowerment, design appropriate strategies to address identified deficiencies, and monitor project outcomes related to women’s >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Women’s empowerment in agriculture: Lessons from qualitative research
TITLE: Women’s empowerment in agriculture: Lessons from qualitative research ABSTRACT: There is growing recognition of the importance of women’s empowerment in its own right and for a range of development outcomes, but less understanding of what empowerment means to rural women and men. The challenge of measuring empowerment, particularly across cultures and contexts, is also garnering attention. >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: How do agricultural development projects empower women? Linking strategies with expected outcomes
Happy New Year! TITLE: How do agricultural development projects empower women? Linking strategies with expected outcomes AUTHORS: Nancy Johnson, Mysbah Balagamwala, Crossley Pinkstaff, Sophie Theis, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Agnes Quisumbing Increasing numbers of development agencies and individual projects espouse objectives of women’s empowerment, and there is a growing body of conceptual and empirical work on how >> Read more
WEB RESOURCES + NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Gender equality to accelerate the achievement of SDG2
Hazel Malapit gave a keynote presentation "Gender equality to accelerate the achievement of SDG2" at the Accelerating the end of Hunger and Malnutrition event in Bangkok last November. Conference organizers have since released a recording of Hazel's keynote, which you may view here. Hazel also wrote a complementary blog, which you may read here.
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Does empowering women benefit household members equitably? An analysis of women’s empowerment and dietary quality in Bangladesh
Sneak peek: "In this blog, we talk with Agnes Quisumbing, a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute about her recent article on women’s empowerment and dietary quality across the life course in Bangladesh. Quisumbing and her co-author, Esha Sraboni, a PhD candidate at Brown University, use nationally-representative data from Bangladesh to >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Does empowering women benefit household members equitably? An analysis of women’s empowerment and dietary quality in Bangladesh
There is a new blog from IFPRI authors..."Does empowering women benefit household members equitably? An analysis of women’s empowerment and dietary quality in Bangladesh" A4NH: What is women’s empowerment and how is it connected to what people eat? Agnes Quisumbing: We define women’s empowerment using Naila Kabeer’s definition — the ability to make strategic life choices, particularly in >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Considering gender when promoting small-scale irrigation technologies: Guidance for inclusive irrigation interventions
ABSTRACT: Many actors promoting irrigation technologies in low- and middle-income countries want to ensure that men, women, and different social groups have equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from irrigation but are uncertain how to do so. This tool provides a guide and structured set of questions to assess gender dynamics in irrigation in a >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI AUTHORS: Gender empowerment gaps in agriculture and children’s well-being in Bangladesh
TITLE: Gender empowerment gaps in agriculture and children’s well-being in Bangladesh AUTHORS: Hazel Malapit, Esha Sraboni, Agnes Quisumbing, Akhter Ahmed ABSTRACT: Development programs that reduce gender gaps are expected to not only improve women’s well-being, but also their children’s. This draws on a growing body of literature that shows a strong positive association between women’s status and >> Read more
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