A synthesis of changes in women's empowerment from Cultivate Africa's Future agricultural development projects

There are few examples of assessments of project portfolios that aim to support women’s empowerment in agriculture and livestock in low- and middle-income countries and that employ a consistent framework and standardized, validated measures of women’s empowerment across the entirety of the projects...

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Main Authors: Malapit, Hazel J., Galiè, Alessandra, Njiru, Nelly, Ferguson, Nathaniel, Omondi, Immaculate A., Lecoutere, Els, Muchiri, Caroline
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform 2025
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174137
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author Malapit, Hazel J.
Galiè, Alessandra
Njiru, Nelly
Ferguson, Nathaniel
Omondi, Immaculate A.
Lecoutere, Els
Muchiri, Caroline
author_browse Ferguson, Nathaniel
Galiè, Alessandra
Lecoutere, Els
Malapit, Hazel J.
Muchiri, Caroline
Njiru, Nelly
Omondi, Immaculate A.
author_facet Malapit, Hazel J.
Galiè, Alessandra
Njiru, Nelly
Ferguson, Nathaniel
Omondi, Immaculate A.
Lecoutere, Els
Muchiri, Caroline
author_sort Malapit, Hazel J.
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description There are few examples of assessments of project portfolios that aim to support women’s empowerment in agriculture and livestock in low- and middle-income countries and that employ a consistent framework and standardized, validated measures of women’s empowerment across the entirety of the projects (see also Baltenweck et al. 2024). This brief synthesizes and presents lessons about women’s empowerment from the achievements of a portfolio of agricultural development projects, where empowerment was consistently measured across the portfolio using the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI). We address two key research questions: (i) What did the agricultural development projects achieve in terms of women’s empowerment? How does this aggregate at the project portfolio level? (ii) What is the significance and some of the key applications of the results to inform future policies, program implementation, extension work and other agriculture-related interventions that aim to support women’s empowerment?
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spelling CGSpace1741372025-11-06T04:21:28Z A synthesis of changes in women's empowerment from Cultivate Africa's Future agricultural development projects Malapit, Hazel J. Galiè, Alessandra Njiru, Nelly Ferguson, Nathaniel Omondi, Immaculate A. Lecoutere, Els Muchiri, Caroline gender empowerment gender equality agricultural development There are few examples of assessments of project portfolios that aim to support women’s empowerment in agriculture and livestock in low- and middle-income countries and that employ a consistent framework and standardized, validated measures of women’s empowerment across the entirety of the projects (see also Baltenweck et al. 2024). This brief synthesizes and presents lessons about women’s empowerment from the achievements of a portfolio of agricultural development projects, where empowerment was consistently measured across the portfolio using the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI). We address two key research questions: (i) What did the agricultural development projects achieve in terms of women’s empowerment? How does this aggregate at the project portfolio level? (ii) What is the significance and some of the key applications of the results to inform future policies, program implementation, extension work and other agriculture-related interventions that aim to support women’s empowerment? 2025-03-30 2025-04-11T05:38:59Z 2025-04-11T05:38:59Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174137 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform Malapit, H., Galiè, A., Njiru, N., Ferguson, N., Omondi, I., Lecoutere, E. and Muchiri, C. 2025. A synthesis of changes in women’s empowerment from Cultivate Africa’s Future agricultural development projects. Nairobi, Kenya: CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform.
spellingShingle gender
empowerment
gender equality
agricultural development
Malapit, Hazel J.
Galiè, Alessandra
Njiru, Nelly
Ferguson, Nathaniel
Omondi, Immaculate A.
Lecoutere, Els
Muchiri, Caroline
A synthesis of changes in women's empowerment from Cultivate Africa's Future agricultural development projects
title A synthesis of changes in women's empowerment from Cultivate Africa's Future agricultural development projects
title_full A synthesis of changes in women's empowerment from Cultivate Africa's Future agricultural development projects
title_fullStr A synthesis of changes in women's empowerment from Cultivate Africa's Future agricultural development projects
title_full_unstemmed A synthesis of changes in women's empowerment from Cultivate Africa's Future agricultural development projects
title_short A synthesis of changes in women's empowerment from Cultivate Africa's Future agricultural development projects
title_sort synthesis of changes in women s empowerment from cultivate africa s future agricultural development projects
topic gender
empowerment
gender equality
agricultural development
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174137
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