Women's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from peste des petits ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana
Healthy livestock provide meaningful opportunities to enhance women’s empowerment (WE) in low- and middle-income countries. Animal vaccines are important to keep livestock healthy and productive. However, gender-based restrictions limit women’s access to animal health services, thereby affecting the...
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| author | Omondi, Immaculate A. Galiè, Alessandra Teufel, Nils Loriba, Agnes Kariuki, Eunice Baltenweck, Isabelle |
| author_browse | Baltenweck, Isabelle Galiè, Alessandra Kariuki, Eunice Loriba, Agnes Omondi, Immaculate A. Teufel, Nils |
| author_facet | Omondi, Immaculate A. Galiè, Alessandra Teufel, Nils Loriba, Agnes Kariuki, Eunice Baltenweck, Isabelle |
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| description | Healthy livestock provide meaningful opportunities to enhance women’s empowerment (WE) in low- and middle-income countries. Animal vaccines are important to keep livestock healthy and productive. However, gender-based restrictions limit women’s access to animal health services, thereby affecting the potential of livestock to enhance their empowerment. While growing empirical evidence reveals that women-controlled livestock (e.g., small ruminants) have important implications for WE and support better household nutrition outcomes, little empirical evidence exists from rigorous analyses of the relationship between WE and animal vaccines for women-controlled livestock species. Our analysis explores the relationship between WE and involvement with PPR vaccination in Ghana. Data collected using the Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index (WELI) tool from 465 women and 92 men farmers (who keep goats) from northern Ghana, and analyzed using PLS-SEM, revealed a significant direct positive association between knowledge about animal health and PPR vaccines and a significant indirect positive association between access to PPR vaccines and empowerment. The empowerment of women goat farmers, as revealed by our model’s results for the relationship between empowerment and vaccine facets, was significantly represented by asset ownership and input into decisions concerning livestock. These study results reveal important considerations in designing effective and equitable livestock vaccine systems. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1172282025-12-08T10:29:22Z Women's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from peste des petits ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana Omondi, Immaculate A. Galiè, Alessandra Teufel, Nils Loriba, Agnes Kariuki, Eunice Baltenweck, Isabelle women vaccination ruminants livelihoods Healthy livestock provide meaningful opportunities to enhance women’s empowerment (WE) in low- and middle-income countries. Animal vaccines are important to keep livestock healthy and productive. However, gender-based restrictions limit women’s access to animal health services, thereby affecting the potential of livestock to enhance their empowerment. While growing empirical evidence reveals that women-controlled livestock (e.g., small ruminants) have important implications for WE and support better household nutrition outcomes, little empirical evidence exists from rigorous analyses of the relationship between WE and animal vaccines for women-controlled livestock species. Our analysis explores the relationship between WE and involvement with PPR vaccination in Ghana. Data collected using the Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index (WELI) tool from 465 women and 92 men farmers (who keep goats) from northern Ghana, and analyzed using PLS-SEM, revealed a significant direct positive association between knowledge about animal health and PPR vaccines and a significant indirect positive association between access to PPR vaccines and empowerment. The empowerment of women goat farmers, as revealed by our model’s results for the relationship between empowerment and vaccine facets, was significantly represented by asset ownership and input into decisions concerning livestock. These study results reveal important considerations in designing effective and equitable livestock vaccine systems. 2022-03-12 2021-12-24T08:53:18Z 2021-12-24T08:53:18Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/117228 en Open Access MDPI Omondi, I.A., Galiè, A., Teufel, N., Loriba, A., Kariuki, E. and Baltenweck, I. 2022. Women's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from peste des petits ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana. Animals 12(6): 717 |
| spellingShingle | women vaccination ruminants livelihoods Omondi, Immaculate A. Galiè, Alessandra Teufel, Nils Loriba, Agnes Kariuki, Eunice Baltenweck, Isabelle Women's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from peste des petits ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana |
| title | Women's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from peste des petits ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana |
| title_full | Women's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from peste des petits ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana |
| title_fullStr | Women's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from peste des petits ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Women's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from peste des petits ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana |
| title_short | Women's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from peste des petits ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana |
| title_sort | women s empowerment and livestock vaccination evidence from peste des petits ruminants vaccination interventions in northern ghana |
| topic | women vaccination ruminants livelihoods |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/117228 |
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