Search Results - "Agriculture Indexes."

Empowerment and Climate Resilience in Nandi, Kenya: Insights from a Mixed Methods Approach Using Pro-WEAI by DuttaGupta, Tanaya, Kariuki, Eunice, Omondi, Immaculate A., Ewell, Hanna, Kibet, Walter, Bullock, Renee, Rietveld, Anne, Mwambi, Diana, Habermann, Birgit

“…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. …”
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Power as agency: a critical reflection on the measurement of women’s empowerment in the development sector by O'Hara, C., Clement, Floriane

“…We examine the results of a household survey conducted in Nepal using the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), which was developed as a monitoring and evaluation tool for the Feed the Future Initiative. …”
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The women’s empowerment in livestock index by Galiè, Alessandra, Teufel, Nils, Korir, Luke, Baltenweck, Isabelle, Girard, Amy W., Domínguez Salas, Paula, Yount, K.M.

“…One quantitative measure is the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI). Despite its reliability in certain agricultural contexts, the WEAI requires adaptation in settings where livestock farming is the dominant form of livelihood. …”
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Identifying pathways that affect the relationship between empowerment and economic outcomes by Paz, Florencia, Heckert, Jessica, Seymour, Greg, Raghunathan, Kalyani

“…We measure empowerment for a woman and man in each household using the projectlevel Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index for Market Inclusion. We measure household-level economic outcomes using total household income from all sources, and agricultural yield and revenues for specific crops. …”
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Are empowered women more resilient to agricultural shocks? Evidence from women smallholder farmers in Uganda by Sanya, Losira Nasirumbi, Muhanguzi, Florence Kyoheirwe, Kavuma, Susan Namirembe, Boonabaana, Brenda, Kyomuhendo, Grace Bantebya, Ludgate, Nargiza, Meinzen-Dick, Laura, Lubyayi, Lawrence

“…Using a mixedmethods approach involving the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Index (pro-WEAI) tool and an add-on module on resilience, our research explored the relationship between women’s empowerment and resilience. …”
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Nexus among agricultural extension services, women’s empowerment in agriculture, and farm income in Bangladesh by Begum, Ismat Ara, Alam, Mohammad Jahangir, Sarma, Paresh Kumar, Cooper, Bethany, Crase, Lin, Sayem, Sheikh Mohammad

“…We find that participation in agricultural extension services resulted in a 16.36% increase in the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index over three years, rising from 0.605 in 2015 to 0.704 to 2018. …”
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Understanding women farmers’ empowerment in climate- stressed smallholder systems: Evidence from a climate-smart cropping system intensification initiative in Indian Sundarbans by Sen, Poulami, Misra, Sanchayeeta, Goswami, Rupal, Sarkar, Sukamal, Ray, Krishnendu, Roy, Kalyan, Mallick, Kousik, Brahmachari, Koushik, Nanda, Manoj K., Monjardino, Marta, Mainuddin, Mohammed

“…To understand the climatesociety-innovation-gender nexus, we measure women farmers’ empowerment and the existing gender gap by employing the comprehensive Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index and gender analyses. WEAI evaluates the domains of women farmers’ empowerment and gender analyses help to understand the gender gap in the system. …”
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Women Empowerment and Children’s Dietary Diversity in Eastern Uganda by Shimali, Fred, Mangheni, Margaret Najjingo, Sanya, Losira Nasirumbi

“…The project-level women’s empowerment in agriculture index tool (Pro-WEAI) with an add-on module on dietary diversity was used to collect data to measure the different dimensions of women’s empowerment. …”
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Women’s empowerment in Rwandan agriculture: A baseline assessment in the context of Rwanda’s gender and youth mainstreaming strategy and the fourth strategic plan for agricultural... by Rosenbach, Gracie, Benimana, Gilberthe Uwera, Ingabire, Chantal, Spielman, David J., Tumukunde, Ritha

“…The findings from the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey conducted in 2019 for the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI), indicated that women and men in Rwanda both have relatively high levels of empowerment across different agricultural do mains, and most women are as empowered as men in their households. …”
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Women’s empowerment in agriculture and nutritional outcomes: Evidence from six countries in Africa and Asia by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Sproule, Kathryn, Martinez, Elena M., Malapit, Hazel J.

“…This paper applies a comparable methodology to data on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), a recent internationally-validated measure based on interviews of women and men within the same household, from six countries in Africa and Asia to identify which dimensions of women’s empowerment are related to household-, women-, and child-level dietary and nutrition outcomes. …”
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Bangladesh Agricultural Value Chain (AVC) Impact Evaluation: Endline Survey by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Group 2 households also completed a series of modules as part of the Project-Level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (Pro-WEAI).…”
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Women Empowerment Status in the Coastal Fishing Communities of Bangladesh by Rahman, M. Wakilur, Haque, A.B.M., Zaman, Tasnuva, Nahiduzzaman, Md, Palash, Md Salauddin, Nazia, Tanzina

“…Pro-WEFI, which is a modified and refined version of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) was utilized for fishing community to determine women’s empowerment and disempowerment status across three domains of empowerment (3DE): intrinsic, instrumental, and collective agency. …”
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Task or time? Comparing methods for measuring the gender distribution of work by Banerjee, Archis, Kumar, Neha, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…In this paper, we compare data collected using the task allocation module in the Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) integrated household survey and the time-use module in the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) survey. We begin by describing the methods used to collect the data in each of the surveys. …”
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Women’s empowerment and gender equity in agriculture: A different perspective from Southeast Asia by Akter, Sonia, Rutsaert, Pieter, Luis, Joyce, Htwe, Nyo Me, San, Su Su, Raharjo, Budi, Pustika, Arlyna

“…Using the framework recommended by the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), 37 focus group discussions were conducted with 290 women farmers in the above mentioned countries. …”
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Exploring women’s empowerment in livestock: A qualitative study in Caquetá, Colombia by Rodriguez, Luz A., Vanegas Cubillos, Martha, Buitrago, Juliana, Mesa, Aana María, Santamaria Ruiz, Juliana, Correal, Antonia

“…This report presents the results of applying the qualitative protocols of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) in La Montañita, Caquetá, Colombia, with women’s associative groups in livestock farming. …”
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Measuring women’s empowerment in aquaculture in northwestern Bangladesh using a project level women’s empowerment in fisheries index (pro-WEFI) by Adam, Rahma, Rajaratnam, Surendran, Sufian, Farha, Njogu, Lucy

“…We applied the project level Women’s Empowerment in Fisheries and Aquaculture Index (pro-WEFI), which is based on the project-level women’s empowerment in agriculture index (pro-WEAI) to standardize the measurement of women’s agency and empowerment in fisheries and aquaculture. …”
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From bargaining power to empowerment: Measuring the unmeasurable by Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…Since 2010, several measures of women's empowerment have been developed, including the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and its variants. A distinct feature of the WEAI, like other counting-based measures, is its decomposability into its component indicators, which makes identifying sources of disempowerment possible. …”
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Lessons on methodologies to assess women’s empowerment from two agricultural and livestock project portfolios by Malapit, Hazel J., Galiè, Alessandra, Ferguson, Nathaniel, Njiru, Nelly, Omondi, Immaculate A., Muchiri, Caroline, Lecoutere, Els

“…We draw lessons from the constraints and opportunities of using standardized tools for measuring women’s empowerment, such as the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) and the Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index (WELI) tools. …”
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Investigating women’s agency and achievements in agriculture: Insights from APART, Assam by Varkey, Lisa Mariam, Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan, Singh, Kanwar, Borgohain, Rupam, Bhattachrya, Ashok, Singh, Sudhanshu

“…In this study, using plot-level data from the 2022 impact evaluation study under Agribusiness and Rural Transformation Project (APART), we first measure women’s empowerment under six dimensions for the beneficiary women farmers using Abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index. Thereafter, we proceed to estimate a stochastic frontier production function model, which includes women’s empowerment in agriculture as an exogenous determinant of technical inefficiency. …”
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Does the UN Joint Program for Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment (JP RWEE) deliver on its empowerment objectives? by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Gerli, Beatrice, Faas, Simone, Heckert, Jessica, Malapit, Hazel J., McCarron, Catherine, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Paz, Florencia

“…This paper compares the empowerment impacts of the UN Joint Program for Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment (JP RWEE) in Ethiopia, Niger, Nepal, and Kyrgyzstan using the Abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI). We assess the extent of empowerment and gender parity, and decompose the sources of disempowerment, separately for men and women and for beneficiary and control groups. …”
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