Women S Empowerment In Agrifood Governance Weagov Assessment Framework A Pilot Study In Nigeria

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
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Release : 2024-01-24
Category : Political Science
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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 : Kyle, Jordan,Ragasa, Catherine,Carrillo, Lucia
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 13 pages
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Release : 2023-08-04
Category : Political Science
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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
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 15 pages
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Release : 2024-01-26
Category : Political Science
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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
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Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Political Science
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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
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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 : Malapit, Hazel J.,Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Seymour, Gregory,Martinez, Elena M.,Heckert, Jessica,Rubin, Deborah,Vaz, Ana,Yount, Kathryn M.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Political Science
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Development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) by Malapit, Hazel J.,Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Seymour, Gregory,Martinez, Elena M.,Heckert, Jessica,Rubin, Deborah,Vaz, Ana,Yount, Kathryn M. Pdf

In this paper, the authors describe the adaptation and validation of a project-level WEAI (or pro-WEAI) that agricultural development projects can use to identify key areas of women’s (and men’s) disempowerment, design appropriate strategies to address identified deficiencies, and monitor project outcomes related to women’s empowerment. The 12 pro-WEAI indicators are mapped to three domains: intrinsic agency (power within), instrumental agency (power to), and collective agency (power with). A gender parity index compares the empowerment scores of men and women in the same household. The authors describe the development of pro-WEAI, including: (1) pro-WEAI’s distinctiveness from other versions of the WEAI; (2) the process of piloting pro-WEAI in 13 agricultural development projects during the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, phase 2 (GAAP2); (3) analysis of quantitative data from the GAAP2 projects, including intrahousehold patterns of empowerment; and (4) a summary of the findings from the qualitative work exploring concepts of women’s empowerment in the project sites. The paper concludes with a discussion of lessons learned from pro-WEAI and possibilities for further development of empowerment metrics.

Author : Ganesh Thapa,Anjani Kumar,P.K. Joshi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813296480

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Agricultural Transformation in Nepal by Ganesh Thapa,Anjani Kumar,P.K. Joshi Pdf

This book addresses some key strategic questions related to agriculture in the context of major contemporary developments and emerging challenges in Nepal such as the changing role of agriculture with economic growth, structural transformation in reducing poverty, improving nutritional outcomes, and addressing the challenges of climate change. The book also suggests policy measures to improve the delivery of critical inputs and services and ensure the participation of marginal and smallholders in high-value chains. Further, it discusses how the new federal system and governance structure will affect the delivery of agricultural technology and services. The book is divided into five parts. Part I discusses macro-issues in the agriculture sector, while Part II focuses on agricultural productivity growth and its main drivers. The third part explores diversification in the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors by farmers and other rural people for livelihood improvement, while the fourth part deals with agricultural trade and marketing issues, highlighting policy implications and recommendations in the areas of immediate focus and further research. Lastly, Part V addresses institutions and governance issues, which are vital for agricultural development. In the final chapter, the editors summarize and synthesize the book’s main findings and develop a policy agenda for addressing the many challenges faced by the agriculture sector in Nepal, so as to make it more productive, competitive, sustainable, and inclusive. The book offers a rich source of analytical information on various aspects of agricultural development in Nepal and will be of immense value to policymakers, development partners, civil society, students, and those interested in the economic and agricultural development of not only Nepal, but also other developing countries.

Author : Siddiqur Rahman Osmani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198283962

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Nutrition and Poverty by Siddiqur Rahman Osmani Pdf

This volume deals with an ongoing debate relating to the definition and measurement of nutritional status. It focuses on the problems of measuring undernutrition and its links with poverty, both as a cause and an effect.

Author : Malapit, Hazel J.,Sproule, Kathryn,Kovarik, Chiara,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Ramzan, Farzana,Hogue, Emily,Alkire, Sabina
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Social Science
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Measuring progress toward empowerment by Malapit, Hazel J.,Sproule, Kathryn,Kovarik, Chiara,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Ramzan, Farzana,Hogue, Emily,Alkire, Sabina Pdf

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative. These poverty, health, and nutrition outcomes include both factors that might affect empowerment and outcomes that might result from empowerment. The analysis includes thirteen countries from five regions and compares their baseline survey scores. WEAI scores range from a high of 0.98 in Cambodia to a low of 0.66 in Bangladesh.

Author : Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity (MAPSA)
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Political Science
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Livelihoods, poverty, and food insecurity in Myanmar: Survey evidence from June 2020 to December 2021 by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity (MAPSA) Pdf

Ten rounds of the Rural-Urban Food Security Survey (RUFSS) have been conducted between June 2020 and December 2021 to assess the impacts of Myanmar’s economic, political, and health crises on various dimensions of household welfare. RUFSS interviews about 2000 mothers of young children per round from urban Yangon, the rural Dry Zone, and recent migrants from these areas.

Author : Ragasa, Catherine,Malapit, Hazel J.,Rubin, Deborah,Myers, Emily,Pereira, Audrey,Martinez, Elena M.,Heckert, Jessica,Seymour, Greg,Mzungu, Diston,Kalagho, Kenan,Kazembe, Cynthia,Thunde, Jack,Mswelo, Grace
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Political Science
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"It takes two": Women’s empowerment in agricultural value chains in Malawi by Ragasa, Catherine,Malapit, Hazel J.,Rubin, Deborah,Myers, Emily,Pereira, Audrey,Martinez, Elena M.,Heckert, Jessica,Seymour, Greg,Mzungu, Diston,Kalagho, Kenan,Kazembe, Cynthia,Thunde, Jack,Mswelo, Grace Pdf

Inclusive agricultural value chains (VCs) are potential drivers for poverty reduction, food security, and women’s empowerment. This report assesses the implementation of the Agricultural Technical and Vocational Education Training for Women Program (ATVET4Women) that aims to support women with vocational training and market linkages in priority agricultural value chains. This report focuses on Malawi, one of the six pilot countries of the ATVET4Women; and focuses on vegetable value chains in which some non-formal training sessions have been conducted as of October 2019. This report presents (1) program experience of stakeholders; (2) evidence of program benefits and challenges among ATVET4Women non-formal training graduates; and (3) baseline data on value chain and empowerment indicators, using a pilot household survey-based instrument for measuring women’s empowerment in agricultural value chains (pro-WEAI for market inclusion) and supplementary qualitative research. Results show graduates’ satisfaction and appreciation of the training provided, and some graduates reported having access to more lucrative markets as a result of the training. However, positive changes in several outcome indicators were reported by only some graduates: 30 percent of graduates reported increased production and sales. There is no significant difference in the reported changes and levels of vegetable production and income between graduates and non-graduates. Qualitative findings suggest that constraints to accessing agricultural inputs and funds to upgrade their production may be why there are no measured differences. Results on empowerment status reveal that 73 percent of women and 85 percent of men in the sample are empowered, and 73 percent of the sample households achieved gender parity. The main contributor of disempowerment among women and men is lack of work balance and autonomy in income. Fewer women achieved adequacy in work balance than men. Adequacies in attitudes about domestic violence, respect among household members, input in productive decisions, and asset ownership are generally high for both women and men, but significantly lower for women. While this report is mainly descriptive and further analysis is ongoing, it offers some lessons and practical implications for improving ATVET4Women program implementation and its outcomes on women’s market access, incomes, and empowerment.

Author : Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Sproule, Kathryn,Martinez, Elena M.,Malapit, Hazel J.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Political Science
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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. Pdf

Although women’s empowerment and gender equality are associated with better maternal and child nutrition outcomes, recent systematic reviews find inconclusive evidence. 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. We examine the relationship between women’s empowerment and household-level food security and dietary diversity; women’s dietary diversity and BMI; and child-related outcomes, controlling for woman, child, and household characteristics. We also test whether women’s empowerment has differential associations for boys and girls. We do not find consistent associations between dimensions of empowerment and food security and nutrition outcomes across countries, but some patterns emerge. Overall empowerment scores are more strongly associated with nutritional outcomes in the South Asian countries in our sample compared to the African ones. Where significant, greater intrahousehold gender equality is associated with better nutritional outcomes. However, different domains have different associations with nutritional outcomes, suggesting that tradeoffs exist: higher workloads are associated with more diverse diets but lower women’s BMI and child anthropometric outcomes. Identifying the overlap between the top contributors to disempowerment and those most strongly related to nutrition outcomes can inform the design and implementation of nutrition-sensitive agricultural programs.

Author : Ruel, Marie T.,Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Balagamwala, Mysbah
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Political Science
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Nutrition-sensitive agriculture by Ruel, Marie T.,Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Balagamwala, Mysbah Pdf

A growing number of governments, donor agencies, and development organizations are committed to supporting nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) to achieve their development goals. Although consensus exists on pathways through which agriculture may influence nutrition-related outcomes, empirical evidence on agriculture’s contribution to nutrition and how it can be enhanced is still weak. This paper reviews recent empirical evidence (since 2014), including findings from impact evaluations of a variety of NSA programs using experimental designs as well as observational studies that document linkages between agriculture, women’s empowerment, and nutrition. It summarizes existing knowledge regarding not only impacts but also pathways, mechanisms, and contextual factors that affect where and how agriculture may improve nutrition outcomes. The paper concludes with reflections on implications for agricultural programs, policies, and investments, and highlights future research priorities.

Author : Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Ahmed, Akhter,Hoddinott, John F.,Pereira, Audrey,Roy, Shalini
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Political Science
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Designing for empowerment impact in agricultural development projects: Experimental evidence from the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project in Banglades by Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Ahmed, Akhter,Hoddinott, John F.,Pereira, Audrey,Roy, Shalini Pdf

The importance of women’s roles for nutrition-sensitive agricultural projects is increasingly recognized, yet little is known about whether such projects improve women’s empowerment and gender equality. We study the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) pilot project, which was implemented as a cluster-randomized controlled trial by the Government of Bangladesh. The project’s treatment arms included agricultural training, nutrition behavior change communication (BCC), and gender sensitization trainings to husbands and wives together – with these components combined additively, such that the impact of gender sensitization could be distinguished from that of agriculture and nutrition trainings. Empowerment was measured using the internationally-validated project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI), and attitudes regarding gender roles were elicited from both men and women, to explore potentially gender-transformative impacts. Our study finds that ANGeL increased both women’s and men’s empowerment, raised the prevalence of households achieving gender parity, and led to small improvements in the gender attitudes of both women and men. We find significant increases in women’s empowerment scores and empowerment status from all treatment arms but with no significant differences across these. We find no evidence of unintended impacts on workloads and we note inconclusive evidence of possible increases in intimate partner violence (IPV). Our results also suggest some potential benefits of bundling nutrition and gender components with an agricultural development intervention; however, many of these benefits seem to be driven by bundling nutrition with agriculture. While we cannot assess the extent to which including men and women within the same treatment arms contributed to our results, it is plausible that the positive impacts of all treatment arms on women’s empowerment outcomes may have arisen from implementation modalities that provided information to both husbands and wives when they were together. The role of engaging men and women jointly in interventions is a promising area for future research.

Author : Slavchevska, Vanya,Doss, Cheryl R.,Hillesland, Marya,Mane, Erdgin
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The impacts of rural outmigration on women’s empowerment: Evidence from Nepal, Senegal, and Tajikistan by Slavchevska, Vanya,Doss, Cheryl R.,Hillesland, Marya,Mane, Erdgin Pdf

Using primary survey data collected in Tajikistan, Nepal and Senegal, three countries with high male outmigration rates, this study analyzes the impacts of migration on the empowerment of women who remain in rural areas. The study uses indicators from the Abbreviate Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI) to measure women’s empowerment in five domains (decision-making autonomy around agricultural production, resources, control over income, group membership and workload) and instrumental variable approaches to address the endogeneity between the migration of a family member and women’s empowerment. It finds that male outmigration leads to women’s empowerment in agriculture in some domains and disempowerment in others. In Tajikistan, where women start with low levels of empowerment, women in households with a migrant are more likely to be involved in decisions in productive activities on the household farm, control income, own assets and achieve workload balance than women in non-migrant households. In Nepal and Senegal, women start at higher levels of empowerment and we see fewer differences in their empowerment based on whether they live in a migrant-sending household. The impacts of migration on empowerment depend on the context, whether the household receives remittances or owns land, and women’s position within the household.