Empowerment and Climate Resilience in Nandi, Kenya: Insights from a Mixed Methods Approach Using Pro-WEAI
What is the relationship between empowerment and capacities to cope with and adapt to climate-related shocks? Using the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (Pro-WEAI) alongside qualitative data from focus group discussions and interviews, the study adopts a mixed methods approach...
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| author | DuttaGupta, Tanaya Kariuki, Eunice Omondi, Immaculate A. Ewell, Hanna Kibet, Walter Bullock, Renee Rietveld, Anne Mwambi, Diana Habermann, Birgit |
| author_browse | Bullock, Renee DuttaGupta, Tanaya Ewell, Hanna Habermann, Birgit Kariuki, Eunice Kibet, Walter Mwambi, Diana Omondi, Immaculate A. Rietveld, Anne |
| author_facet | DuttaGupta, Tanaya Kariuki, Eunice Omondi, Immaculate A. Ewell, Hanna Kibet, Walter Bullock, Renee Rietveld, Anne Mwambi, Diana Habermann, Birgit |
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| description | What is the relationship between empowerment and capacities to cope with and adapt to climate-related shocks? Using the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (Pro-WEAI) alongside qualitative data from focus group discussions and interviews, the study adopts a mixed methods approach to provide both standardized measures and context-specific insights. Findings reveal women and men are similarly disempowered in this context. Inadequacy was observed across indicators of self-efficacy, autonomy in income, and control over use of income, with women having greater inadequacy in work balance and visiting important locations compared to men. Measures of empowerment varied only slightly by value chain, with persistent intra-household gender gaps. In relation to climate resilience, a statistically significant association was found between empowerment and whether survey participants changed their practices in response to climate shocks. Those who are empowered are less likely to change their practices, which may indicate greater absorptive capacity to cope with and buffer from immediate effects of shocks. Similar findings emerged for livestock keepers who grow tea and horticultural crops. Their diversified portfolio in a mixed crop-livestock system may serve as an internal cushion, reducing the urgency to change practices in the aftermath of a shock. Future research using longitudinal data and mixed methods approach would be important for a deeper understanding of the causal mechanisms linking empowerment and resilience. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1788392025-12-17T02:09:37Z Empowerment and Climate Resilience in Nandi, Kenya: Insights from a Mixed Methods Approach Using Pro-WEAI DuttaGupta, Tanaya Kariuki, Eunice Omondi, Immaculate A. Ewell, Hanna Kibet, Walter Bullock, Renee Rietveld, Anne Mwambi, Diana Habermann, Birgit empowerment resilience value chains What is the relationship between empowerment and capacities to cope with and adapt to climate-related shocks? Using the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (Pro-WEAI) alongside qualitative data from focus group discussions and interviews, the study adopts a mixed methods approach to provide both standardized measures and context-specific insights. Findings reveal women and men are similarly disempowered in this context. Inadequacy was observed across indicators of self-efficacy, autonomy in income, and control over use of income, with women having greater inadequacy in work balance and visiting important locations compared to men. Measures of empowerment varied only slightly by value chain, with persistent intra-household gender gaps. In relation to climate resilience, a statistically significant association was found between empowerment and whether survey participants changed their practices in response to climate shocks. Those who are empowered are less likely to change their practices, which may indicate greater absorptive capacity to cope with and buffer from immediate effects of shocks. Similar findings emerged for livestock keepers who grow tea and horticultural crops. Their diversified portfolio in a mixed crop-livestock system may serve as an internal cushion, reducing the urgency to change practices in the aftermath of a shock. Future research using longitudinal data and mixed methods approach would be important for a deeper understanding of the causal mechanisms linking empowerment and resilience. 2025-11-30 2025-12-16T09:05:30Z 2025-12-16T09:05:30Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178839 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR System Organization DuttaGupta, T., Kariuki, E., Omondi, I., Ewell, H., Kibet, W., Bullock, R., Rietveld, A., Mwambi, D. and Habermann, B. 2025. Empowerment and Climate Resilience in Nandi, Kenya: Insights from a Mixed Methods Approach Using Pro-WEAI. Montpellier, France: CGIAR System Organization. |
| spellingShingle | empowerment resilience value chains DuttaGupta, Tanaya Kariuki, Eunice Omondi, Immaculate A. Ewell, Hanna Kibet, Walter Bullock, Renee Rietveld, Anne Mwambi, Diana Habermann, Birgit Empowerment and Climate Resilience in Nandi, Kenya: Insights from a Mixed Methods Approach Using Pro-WEAI |
| title | Empowerment and Climate Resilience in Nandi, Kenya: Insights from a Mixed Methods Approach Using Pro-WEAI |
| title_full | Empowerment and Climate Resilience in Nandi, Kenya: Insights from a Mixed Methods Approach Using Pro-WEAI |
| title_fullStr | Empowerment and Climate Resilience in Nandi, Kenya: Insights from a Mixed Methods Approach Using Pro-WEAI |
| title_full_unstemmed | Empowerment and Climate Resilience in Nandi, Kenya: Insights from a Mixed Methods Approach Using Pro-WEAI |
| title_short | Empowerment and Climate Resilience in Nandi, Kenya: Insights from a Mixed Methods Approach Using Pro-WEAI |
| title_sort | empowerment and climate resilience in nandi kenya insights from a mixed methods approach using pro weai |
| topic | empowerment resilience value chains |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178839 |
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