Stakeholder Workshop Report Women S Empowerment In Agrifood Systems Governance Weagov Technical Workshop Nigeria Pilot Study

Author : Kyle, Jordan,Ragasa, Catherine,Carrillo, Lucia
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Stakeholder workshop report: Women’s empowerment in agrifood systems governance (WEAGov) technical workshop: Nigeria pilot study by Kyle, Jordan,Ragasa, Catherine,Carrillo, Lucia Pdf

Inclusive governance and policies can promote adaptation to climate change as well as resilience of women in the agrifood system. The Women's empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) is a diagnostic tool developed by IFPRI to help evaluate the extent to which women are empowered across the policy cycle related to agrifood systems. WEAGov provides a way to identify gaps and opportunities to raise women’s voice and agency at different stages of the policy cycle, and provides a basis for monitoring progress in women’s empowerment in agrifood systems governance over time. The workshop described here took place on May 11, 2023 in Abuja, Nigeria and included policymakers, researchers, and private sector representatives. The workshop familiarized stakeholders with the WEAGov assessment framework and collected valuable inputs and feedback on a recent WEAGov pilot study conducted in Nigeria. While participants largely validated the WEAGov indicators, they recommended key areas for improved measurement which will be incorporated into the assessment framework.

Author : Ragasa, Catherine,Kyle, Jordan,Onoja, Anthony Ojonimi,Achika, Anthonia I.,Adejoh, Stella O.,Onyenekwe, Chinasa S,Koledoye, Gbenga,Ujor, Gloria C.,Nwali, Perpetual Nkechi
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) assessment framework: A pilot study in Nigeria by Ragasa, Catherine,Kyle, Jordan,Onoja, Anthony Ojonimi,Achika, Anthonia I.,Adejoh, Stella O.,Onyenekwe, Chinasa S,Koledoye, Gbenga,Ujor, Gloria C.,Nwali, Perpetual Nkechi Pdf

Women’s equal participation and leadership in political and public life can boost a country’s long-run economic growth, foster social inclusion, and help countries reach the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Beyond these important outcomes, women’s inclusion in public life is a basic human right: women deserve a role in making decisions, controlling resources, and shaping policies. Despite the importance of women’s voices and their empowerment in policy and decision-making processes, it is far easier to lament their absence than to define and measure them. We know that political empowerment, measured in terms of the share of women in government ministries and parliament, is low and is the weakest dimension in the Global Gender Gap. Yet such national statistics, while important and informative, risk mismeasuring women’s participation and influence in public life and do not give policymakers and advocacy organizations traction on specific gaps and opportunities for increasing women’s voice in policymaking. With this situation in mind and focusing on agrifood systems, which are crucial for delivering the SDGs, we developed an assessment framework—Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov)— to assess women’s voice and empowerment in national policy processes in agrifood systems. This paper presents the first pilot-testing of WEAGov in Nigeria. In this paper, we present how the WEAGov tool works in the Nigerian context, analyze the data, and provide diagnostic on the status of women’s voice and empowerment in the agrifood policy process. As discussed in this paper, the pilot-testing in Nigeria provides useful lessons toward improving the measurement for future use and provides valuable policy insights on critical entry points for increasing women’s voice and empowerment in the national agrifood policy process.

Author : Ragasa, Catherine,Kyle, Jordan
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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WEAGov Nigeria pilot study: Findings and policy implications by Ragasa, Catherine,Kyle, Jordan Pdf

WEAGov assesses the state of women’s voice and agency in national agrifood policymaking. Like IFPRI’s Kaleidoscope Model, it adopts a policy process approach, looking at every stage of the policy cycle — from why certain issues become salient and how policy solutions to address them are designed, to the organizational strategies and budgetary outlays that shape policy implementation, to how policies are assessed against their objectives. Within each of these stages, WEAGov examines whether women are being considered, whether their voices are included, and whether they are influencing actions and decisions.

Author : Ragasa, Catherine,Kyle, Jordan,Kristjanson, Patricia,Eissler, Sarah
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Conceptualizing women’s empowerment in agrifood systems governance: A new framework by Ragasa, Catherine,Kyle, Jordan,Kristjanson, Patricia,Eissler, Sarah Pdf

This paper develops a new framework to measure and track women’s empowerment in governance of countries’ agrifood systems. All too often, women’s needs, priorities, and voices are missing from the policy process, even when women may be disproportionately affected by shocks or have distinct policy preferences. The Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Systems Governance (WEAGov) is an assessment framework to help countries and stakeholders measure the extent of inclusion and leadership of women in agrifood systems governance and to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement. WEAGov looks across three stages of the policy cycle: policy design, policy implementation, and policy evaluation. At each stage of the policy cycle, WEAGov asks three questions central to women’s empowerment in governance: Are women considered? Are women included? And are women influencing? This paper describes the process of conceptualizing and developing the WEAGov assessment framework by drawing together evidence, experience, and lessons from the literature and from over 30 stakeholder consultations across several countries and sectors to develop a practical and theoretically grounded framework.

Author : Catherine Ragasa,Jordan Kyle,Patricia M. Kristjanson,Sarah Eissler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1383768682

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Conceptualizing Women's Empowerment in Agrifood Systems Governance by Catherine Ragasa,Jordan Kyle,Patricia M. Kristjanson,Sarah Eissler Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251378144

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The status of women in agrifood systems by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

The status of women in agrifood systems report uses extensive new data and analyses to provide a comprehensive picture of women’s participation, benefits, and challenges they face working in agrifood systems globally. The report shows how increasing women’s empowerment and gender equality in agrifood systems enhances women’s well-being and the well-being of their households, creating opportunities for economic growth, greater incomes, productivity and resilience. The report comes more than a decade after the publication of the State of food and agriculture (SOFA) 2010–11: Women in agriculture – Closing the gender gap for development. SOFA 2010–11 documented the tremendous costs of gender inequality not only for women but also for agriculture and the broader economy and society, making the business case for closing existing gender gaps in accessing agricultural assets, inputs and services. Moving beyond agriculture, The status of women in agrifood systems reflects not only on how gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to the transition towards sustainable and resilient agrifood systems but also on how the transformation of agrifood systems can contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the available evidence on gender equality and women’s empowerment in agrifood systems that has been produced over the last decade. The report also provides policymakers and development actors with an extensive review of what has worked, highlighting the promise of moving from closing specific gender gaps towards the adoption of gender-transformative approaches that explicitly address the formal and informal structural constraints to equality. It concludes with specific recommendations on the way forward. Last update 03/08/2023

Author : International Food Policy Research Institute
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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2023 annual report by International Food Policy Research Institute Pdf

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Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on Food Security for All as a Sustainability Challenge
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309222631

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A Sustainability Challenge by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,Committee on Food Security for All as a Sustainability Challenge Pdf

The National Research Council's Science and Technology for Sustainability Program hosted two workshops in 2011 addressing the sustainability challenges associated with food security for all. The first workshop, Measuring Food Insecurity and Assessing the Sustainability of Global Food Systems, explored the availability and quality of commonly used indicators for food security and malnutrition; poverty; and natural resources and agricultural productivity. It was organized around the three broad dimensions of sustainable food security: (1) availability, (2) access, and (3) utilization. The workshop reviewed the existing data to encourage action and identify knowledge gaps. The second workshop, Exploring Sustainable Solutions for Increasing Global Food Supplies, focused specifically on assuring the availability of adequate food supplies. How can food production be increased to meet the needs of a population expected to reach over 9 billion by 2050? Workshop objectives included identifying the major challenges and opportunities associated with achieving sustainable food security and identifying needed policy, science, and governance interventions. Workshop participants discussed long term natural resource constraints, specifically water, land and forests, soils, biodiversity and fisheries. They also examined the role of knowledge, technology, modern production practices, and infrastructure in supporting expanded agricultural production and the significant risks to future productivity posed by climate change. This is a report of two workshops.