This document discusses measuring gender results and impacts under the Feed the Future initiative. It outlines Feed the Future's goals of reducing poverty and hunger through inclusive agricultural sector growth and improved nutrition. It describes developing a Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index to measure empowerment across five domains: decision making, access to resources, control over use of income, leadership roles, and time allocations. The index was piloted in 2011 in several countries and will be used for monitoring and evaluating gender impacts under Feed the Future starting in 2012.

1. Using Research to Inform Policy
Gender Asset Gap Lessons for FTF Monitoring
and Evaluation
• Definition of Households
• Source of Information – is interviewing one
person sufficient?
• From income to assets (physical and financial)

2. Measuring Gender Results
and Impacts under FTF

3. Feed the Future Goal: Sustainably Reduce Global Poverty and Hunger
Indicators: Prevalence of poverty & Prevalence of underweight children
First Level Objective: First Level Objective:
Inclusive agriculture sector growth Improved nutritional status esp. of women & children
Indicators: -Agriculture sector GDP Indicators: -Prevalence of stunted children
- Women’s and men’s incomes in rural households -Prevalence of wasted children
-Prevalence of underweight women
Second-Level
Objectives
Improved Expanding Increased private Increased Increased Improved Improved Improved use
agriculture Markets and investment in agricultural resilience of access to nutrition- of maternal
productivity Trade agriculture and value chain vulnerable diverse and related and child
nutrition-related on- and off- communities and quality foods behaviors health and
-Gross Value of intra- activities farm jobs households nutrition
margins per regional Women’s Exclusive services
unit of land exports of % national budget Jobs created Prevalence of Dietary breast-
targeted invested in by invest- households with Diversity feeding Prevalence of
or animal of
agriculture & ment in moderate to under six anemia
selected commodities Percent of
nutrition agricultural severe hunger months among
product Children 6-23
Value of new value chains women of
Value of months that
private sector reproductive
incremental received a
investment in age
# of has of sales (farm- MAD
natural agriculture sector
level)
resources or value chain
showing # of local firms &
improved CSOs engaged in
biophysical food security
conditions operating
sustainability

4.  Engendered Performance
Monitoring Measuring Gender
 Sex disaggregation Results and Impacts
 Gendered HH type under FTF
 Impact Evaluations on different
gender approaches
 Women’s Empowerment in
Agriculture Index

5.  FTF first-level objective --
Inclusive Agricultural Sector
Growth Women’s Empowerment
in Agriculture Index
 “Inclusion” means “empowered”
 Empowerment is a Multi-
dimensional Concept
 Tool to measure several
dimensions

6. Five domains to be measured:
1. Women’s role in household decision-making
related to agricultural production
Women’s Empowerment
2. Women’s access to productive capital, such
as credit or land in Agriculture Index
3. Women’s use of income after household needs
are met
4. Women’s access to leadership roles within the
community
5. Women’s labor time allocations

7.  Index developed in partnership with:
 International Food Policy Research
Institute (IFPRI) Women’s Empowerment
 Oxford Poverty and Human Development in Agriculture Index
Initiative (OPHI)
 Performance Monitoring in all FTF
countries and for Impact Evaluations

8. Pilots
 Piloted Summer 2011
 Interviewed adult male and adult female (+18)
in up to 350 households in
– Bangladesh
– Uganda
– Guatemala

9. Next Steps
• Construct the Index using Alkire-Foster Method
• Ready to launch March 2012
– Roll out in FTF baselines (20 countries)
– Report based on data from pilots

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with the participants at today’s meeting to
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