Women's Empowement Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS): A lean instrument to measure women’s empowerment in nationally representative, multitopic surveys

Monitoring progress toward SDG 5—achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls— remains challenging without incorporating women’s empowerment metrics into nationally representative and multitopic surveys. To address this problem, we designed the Women’s Empowerment Metric for National...

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Autores principales: Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Seymour, Greg, Heckert, Jessica, Quisumbing, Agnes R., Malapit, Hazel J., Paz, Florencia, Faas, Simone, Myers, Emily, Doss, Cheryl, Sinharoy, Sheela S., Johnson, Erin R., Yuk Fai Cheong, Yount, Kathryn M., Hassan, M. Zahidul, Hassan, M. Imrul, Sharma, Sudhindra, Pokhrel, Pankaj, Sagastume, Mónica Dardón, Kanyanda, Shelton S. E., Vundru, Wilbert D., Kilic, Talip, Moylan, Heather
Formato: Póster
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137077
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author Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
Seymour, Greg
Heckert, Jessica
Quisumbing, Agnes R.
Malapit, Hazel J.
Paz, Florencia
Faas, Simone
Myers, Emily
Doss, Cheryl
Sinharoy, Sheela S.
Johnson, Erin R.
Yuk Fai Cheong
Yount, Kathryn M.
Hassan, M. Zahidul
Hassan, M. Imrul
Sharma, Sudhindra
Pokhrel, Pankaj
Sagastume, Mónica Dardón
Kanyanda, Shelton S. E.
Vundru, Wilbert D.
Kilic, Talip
Moylan, Heather
author_browse Doss, Cheryl
Faas, Simone
Hassan, M. Imrul
Hassan, M. Zahidul
Heckert, Jessica
Johnson, Erin R.
Kanyanda, Shelton S. E.
Kilic, Talip
Malapit, Hazel J.
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
Moylan, Heather
Myers, Emily
Paz, Florencia
Pokhrel, Pankaj
Quisumbing, Agnes R.
Sagastume, Mónica Dardón
Seymour, Greg
Sharma, Sudhindra
Sinharoy, Sheela S.
Vundru, Wilbert D.
Yount, Kathryn M.
Yuk Fai Cheong
author_facet Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
Seymour, Greg
Heckert, Jessica
Quisumbing, Agnes R.
Malapit, Hazel J.
Paz, Florencia
Faas, Simone
Myers, Emily
Doss, Cheryl
Sinharoy, Sheela S.
Johnson, Erin R.
Yuk Fai Cheong
Yount, Kathryn M.
Hassan, M. Zahidul
Hassan, M. Imrul
Sharma, Sudhindra
Pokhrel, Pankaj
Sagastume, Mónica Dardón
Kanyanda, Shelton S. E.
Vundru, Wilbert D.
Kilic, Talip
Moylan, Heather
author_sort Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
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description Monitoring progress toward SDG 5—achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls— remains challenging without incorporating women’s empowerment metrics into nationally representative and multitopic surveys. To address this problem, we designed the Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) as a short empowerment module for the 50×2030 Initiative, a global partnership that aims to build capacity and close the agricultural data gap in 50 countries by 2030. We aimed to design a measure of women’s and men’s empowerment in urban and rural areas, with the flexibility to be relevant to a variety of livelihood strategies across countries in different stages of rural and structural transformation (e.g., farming, wage labor). WEMNS is a multidimensional index composed of four domains—intrinsic agency, instrumental agency, collective agency, and agency-enabling resources— measured by binary indicators. In this paper we describe the development and validation of the WEMNS index using the Alkire-Foster approach, including: (1) WEMNS’s distinctiveness from other empowerment metrics, (2) the iterative approach to the development and piloting of WEMNS in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Malawi, and Nepal, using cognitive interviewing, phone surveys, and face-to-face surveys, (3) analysis of quantitative pilot data, including intrahousehold patterns of empowerment/disempowerment, and (4) a summary of the findings from the qualitative work. The paper concludes with a discussion of lessons learned and possibilities for further development of empowerment metrics.
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spelling CGSpace1370772025-11-06T06:55:54Z Women's Empowement Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS): A lean instrument to measure women’s empowerment in nationally representative, multitopic surveys Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Seymour, Greg Heckert, Jessica Quisumbing, Agnes R. Malapit, Hazel J. Paz, Florencia Faas, Simone Myers, Emily Doss, Cheryl Sinharoy, Sheela S. Johnson, Erin R. Yuk Fai Cheong Yount, Kathryn M. Hassan, M. Zahidul Hassan, M. Imrul Sharma, Sudhindra Pokhrel, Pankaj Sagastume, Mónica Dardón Kanyanda, Shelton S. E. Vundru, Wilbert D. Kilic, Talip Moylan, Heather gender agriculture research women's empowerment Monitoring progress toward SDG 5—achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls— remains challenging without incorporating women’s empowerment metrics into nationally representative and multitopic surveys. To address this problem, we designed the Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) as a short empowerment module for the 50×2030 Initiative, a global partnership that aims to build capacity and close the agricultural data gap in 50 countries by 2030. We aimed to design a measure of women’s and men’s empowerment in urban and rural areas, with the flexibility to be relevant to a variety of livelihood strategies across countries in different stages of rural and structural transformation (e.g., farming, wage labor). WEMNS is a multidimensional index composed of four domains—intrinsic agency, instrumental agency, collective agency, and agency-enabling resources— measured by binary indicators. In this paper we describe the development and validation of the WEMNS index using the Alkire-Foster approach, including: (1) WEMNS’s distinctiveness from other empowerment metrics, (2) the iterative approach to the development and piloting of WEMNS in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Malawi, and Nepal, using cognitive interviewing, phone surveys, and face-to-face surveys, (3) analysis of quantitative pilot data, including intrahousehold patterns of empowerment/disempowerment, and (4) a summary of the findings from the qualitative work. The paper concludes with a discussion of lessons learned and possibilities for further development of empowerment metrics. 2023-10-10 2024-01-04T12:47:15Z 2024-01-04T12:47:15Z Poster https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137077 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; Seymour, Greg; Heckert, Jessica; Quisumbing, Agnes; Malapit, Hazel; Paz, Florencia; Faas, Simone; Myers, Emily; Doss, Cheryl; Sinharoy, Sheela S.; Johnson, Erin R.; Yuk Fai Cheong; Yount, Kathryn M.; Hassan, M. Zahidul; Hassan, M. Imrul; Sharma, Sudhindra; Pokhrel, Pankaj; Sagastume, Mónica Dardón; Kanyanda, Shelton S.E.; Vundru, Wilbert D.; Kilic, Talip; Moylan, Heather. 2023. Women's Empowement Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS): A lean instrument to measure women’s empowerment in nationally representative, multitopic surveys. Poster. Presented at the CGIAR GENDER Conference 'From Research to Impact: Towards just and resilient agri-food systems', New Delhi, India, 9-12 October 2023. International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137077
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agriculture
research
women's empowerment
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
Seymour, Greg
Heckert, Jessica
Quisumbing, Agnes R.
Malapit, Hazel J.
Paz, Florencia
Faas, Simone
Myers, Emily
Doss, Cheryl
Sinharoy, Sheela S.
Johnson, Erin R.
Yuk Fai Cheong
Yount, Kathryn M.
Hassan, M. Zahidul
Hassan, M. Imrul
Sharma, Sudhindra
Pokhrel, Pankaj
Sagastume, Mónica Dardón
Kanyanda, Shelton S. E.
Vundru, Wilbert D.
Kilic, Talip
Moylan, Heather
Women's Empowement Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS): A lean instrument to measure women’s empowerment in nationally representative, multitopic surveys
title Women's Empowement Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS): A lean instrument to measure women’s empowerment in nationally representative, multitopic surveys
title_full Women's Empowement Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS): A lean instrument to measure women’s empowerment in nationally representative, multitopic surveys
title_fullStr Women's Empowement Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS): A lean instrument to measure women’s empowerment in nationally representative, multitopic surveys
title_full_unstemmed Women's Empowement Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS): A lean instrument to measure women’s empowerment in nationally representative, multitopic surveys
title_short Women's Empowement Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS): A lean instrument to measure women’s empowerment in nationally representative, multitopic surveys
title_sort women s empowement metric for national statistical systems wemns a lean instrument to measure women s empowerment in nationally representative multitopic surveys
topic gender
agriculture
research
women's empowerment
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137077
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