Understanding the organizational approaches of funders and project implementers to strengthen women’s empowerment through agricultural collectives
This paper reports on approaches for strengthening women’s empowerment that were implemented by project partners involved in the International Food Policy Research (IFPRI)-led Applying New Evidence for Women’s Empowerment (ANEW) project funded by the Walmart Foundation. The study explores the partne...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Artículo preliminar |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
International Food Policy Research Institute
2024
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155195 |
| _version_ | 1855534776456314880 |
|---|---|
| author | Rubin, Deborah |
| author_browse | Rubin, Deborah |
| author_facet | Rubin, Deborah |
| author_sort | Rubin, Deborah |
| collection | Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace) |
| description | This paper reports on approaches for strengthening women’s empowerment that were implemented by project partners involved in the International Food Policy Research (IFPRI)-led Applying New Evidence for Women’s Empowerment (ANEW) project funded by the Walmart Foundation. The study explores the partner organizations’ websites and publications, project materials, and selected staff interviews to better understand how each envisions women’s empowerment and the pathways for supporting it. The four implementing project partners are Grameen Foundation, Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN) in India, Root Capital in Mexico, and TechnoServe in Guatemala. Their programs and their organizational approaches vary in whether they primarily focus on women rather than more broadly targeting both women and men and their gender relationships. Some organizations are more “organic” in integrating attention to gender and empowerment into their programs, designing and implementing an approach on a case by case basis. Others are more intentional in establishing organization-wide policies, strategies, and monitoring systems. The organizations also differ in their positions on supporting “economic empowerment” and clear economic benefits such as prioritizing increased income or assets in contrast to those that also seek to actively change social norms and achieve other social dimensions of empowerment that encompass behaviors around decision-making, mobility, and self-confidence. Another variation is in the organizations’ attention to enterprise development and, consequently to entrepreneurship and upgrading, and what aspects of women's empowerment are most critical for achieving those goals. This paper offers implementers and their funders insight into organizational differences in approaches to women’s empowerment. The review demonstrates that both funders and implementers continue to focus on strengthening women’s economic empowerment by increasing women’s incomes and assets, often with good results. However, they often lack clear theories of change or explicit strategies to strengthen other dimensions of women’s empowerment. More nuanced, evidence-based theories of change and targeted actions could strengthen program design to expand and support women’s achievement of empowerment across all its dimensions. |
| format | Artículo preliminar |
| id | CGSpace155195 |
| institution | CGIAR Consortium |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 2024 |
| publishDateRange | 2024 |
| publishDateSort | 2024 |
| publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| publisherStr | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | CGSpace1551952025-12-08T10:11:39Z Understanding the organizational approaches of funders and project implementers to strengthen women’s empowerment through agricultural collectives Rubin, Deborah agriculture gender policies women women’s empowerment This paper reports on approaches for strengthening women’s empowerment that were implemented by project partners involved in the International Food Policy Research (IFPRI)-led Applying New Evidence for Women’s Empowerment (ANEW) project funded by the Walmart Foundation. The study explores the partner organizations’ websites and publications, project materials, and selected staff interviews to better understand how each envisions women’s empowerment and the pathways for supporting it. The four implementing project partners are Grameen Foundation, Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN) in India, Root Capital in Mexico, and TechnoServe in Guatemala. Their programs and their organizational approaches vary in whether they primarily focus on women rather than more broadly targeting both women and men and their gender relationships. Some organizations are more “organic” in integrating attention to gender and empowerment into their programs, designing and implementing an approach on a case by case basis. Others are more intentional in establishing organization-wide policies, strategies, and monitoring systems. The organizations also differ in their positions on supporting “economic empowerment” and clear economic benefits such as prioritizing increased income or assets in contrast to those that also seek to actively change social norms and achieve other social dimensions of empowerment that encompass behaviors around decision-making, mobility, and self-confidence. Another variation is in the organizations’ attention to enterprise development and, consequently to entrepreneurship and upgrading, and what aspects of women's empowerment are most critical for achieving those goals. This paper offers implementers and their funders insight into organizational differences in approaches to women’s empowerment. The review demonstrates that both funders and implementers continue to focus on strengthening women’s economic empowerment by increasing women’s incomes and assets, often with good results. However, they often lack clear theories of change or explicit strategies to strengthen other dimensions of women’s empowerment. More nuanced, evidence-based theories of change and targeted actions could strengthen program design to expand and support women’s achievement of empowerment across all its dimensions. 2024-10-04 2024-10-04T15:53:59Z 2024-10-04T15:53:59Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155195 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Rubin, Deborah. 2024. Understanding the organizational approaches of funders and project implementers to strengthen women’s empowerment through agricultural collectives. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2283. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155195 |
| spellingShingle | agriculture gender policies women women’s empowerment Rubin, Deborah Understanding the organizational approaches of funders and project implementers to strengthen women’s empowerment through agricultural collectives |
| title | Understanding the organizational approaches of funders and project implementers to strengthen women’s empowerment through agricultural collectives |
| title_full | Understanding the organizational approaches of funders and project implementers to strengthen women’s empowerment through agricultural collectives |
| title_fullStr | Understanding the organizational approaches of funders and project implementers to strengthen women’s empowerment through agricultural collectives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding the organizational approaches of funders and project implementers to strengthen women’s empowerment through agricultural collectives |
| title_short | Understanding the organizational approaches of funders and project implementers to strengthen women’s empowerment through agricultural collectives |
| title_sort | understanding the organizational approaches of funders and project implementers to strengthen women s empowerment through agricultural collectives |
| topic | agriculture gender policies women women’s empowerment |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155195 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT rubindeborah understandingtheorganizationalapproachesoffundersandprojectimplementerstostrengthenwomensempowermentthroughagriculturalcollectives |