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Training Session 3 – Malapit – Intro to the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)
1. The Women’s Empowerment in
Agriculture Index (WEAI)
Hazel Malapit
Research Coordinator, IFPRI-A4NH
A4NH Gender-Nutrition Methods Workshop II
December 2-4, 2014 – Bioversity International – Rome, Italy
2. What’s new about the WEAI?
• New survey-based index designed by USAID,
IFPRI & OPHI as a M&E tool for the US
Government’s Feed the Future (FTF) Initiative
• Not based on secondary data or aggregate stats
• Men and women from the same household are
interviewed
• Focus on men’s and women’s empowerment in
agriculture
• Decomposable by domain/indicator, region, etc
3. How is the Index constructed?
WEAI is made up of two sub indices
Five domains
of
empowerment
(5DE)
A direct measure of
women’s
empowerment in 5
dimensions
Gender parity
Index (GPI)
Women’s
achievement’s
relative to the
primary male in hh
Women’s
Empowerment
in Agriculture
Index
(WEAI)
All range from zero to one;
higher values = greater empowerment
10. Limitations
• Women engaged in non-agriculture decisions
only may appear disempowered
• Female-only HHs more likely to appear
empowered because of focus on
decisionmaking questions
• Focus on agriculture may not capture other
domains of empowerment that may be more
relevant to specific desired outcomes
• Nuances behind domains not fully captured
11. How is the WEAI being used?
1. As a monitoring indicator for FTF to evaluate
whether programs are having intended effect on
women's empowerment
2. As a diagnostic tool to help identify areas in
which women and men are disempowered, so
that programs and policies can be targeted to
those areas
3. Conducting more research: testing new
indicators/assessing validity in different
contexts, etc.
12. Baseline Findings
• Global report released last
May 2014 with findings from
13 of the 19 countries, as well
as cross-country comparisons
• Suggestive evidence that
women’s empowerment is
strongly correlated with
several outcomes (EBF, MAD),
but not with others (WDDS,
children’s nutritional status)
14. What gets measured, gets done!
• USAID-Bangladesh responded to WEAI baseline
findings by:
– Retrofitting existing programs
– Encouraging partners to take up activities focused on
promoting women’s empowerment in the FTF zone
– Funding US$6 million worth of new programs that aim
to improve women’s empowerment in the 5 domains
• IFPRI working with the Bangladesh government
Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) to orient agriculture
toward nutrition and women’s empowerment
(RCT to test alternative approaches)
15. Using the WEAI for analysis in
different socio-cultural contexts:
Ghana, Bangladesh and Nepal
Hazel Malapit and Agnes Quisumbing
Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division
International Food Policy Research Institute
Supported by the US Agency for International Development through the
Bangladesh Policy Research and Strategy Support Program and the WEAI
16. Main messages (spoiler alert!)
• Patterns of (dis)empowerment vary across
country and context
• Indicators and policy instruments will
therefore vary
• Domains of empowerment are not equally
important in determining different outcomes
at the household, mother, and child level
17. The WEAI as an analytical tool
“…the Swiss army knife by itself is a very blunt instrument if you don’t open it up.
Try opening a bottle of wine with an unopened Swiss army knife – failure!”
Agnes Quisumbing speaking at the WEAI Learning Event, November 21, 2013
18. What’s next for WEAI?
• Piloted new questions based on lessons learned from
baseline surveys to improve
• Many organizations have adopted and modified the WEAI
for their own use
– Modifications are ad hoc, not coordinated
– Cannot make comparisons across different types of projects
with different objectives and approaches, so difficult to know
“what works”
• Develop a project-level WEAI as part of 2nd phase of
Gender, Agriculture and Assets Project (GAAP2)
– Refined, tested and minimal set of core indicators
– Flexibility to add-on modules relevant for particular project
types (eg, crops, livestock) and dimensions of empowerment
relevant to health and nutrition outcomes
19. Any questions? Contact Hazel Malapit: h.malapit@cgiar.org
FOR MORE INFORMATION
• Alkire, S., Meinzen-Dick, R., Peterman, A., Quisumbing, A. R., Seymour, G. and A.
Vaz. 2012. The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index.World Development
52: 71-91.
• WEAI Resource Center: http://www.ifpri.org/book-9075/ourwork/program/weai-resource-
center
Editor's Notes
Roadmap
Basic methodology of the WEAI
What it measures
How it is constructed
Advantages and limitations
Using WEAI for understanding agriculture-nutrition linkages
Baseline findings
WEAI as a diagnostic tool
WEAI as an analytical tool
What is empowerment? Similar to Kabeer (2001), we define empowerment as the expansion of people’s ability to make strategic life choices, within their households and their communities, particularly in contexts where this ability has been limited
Scope of the WEAI
Focus is strictly on empowerment in agriculture, distinct from:
Economic status
Education
Empowerment in other domains
This enables clear analysis of external determinates of empowerment in agriculture
WEAI is international; Local adaptation possible
5DE Methodology
The 5DE is based on the Alkire Foster methodology and reflects:
Incidence of Empowerment - The percentage of women who are empowered
Adequacy among the Disempowered - The weighted share of indicators in which disempowered women enjoy adequate achievements
Based on each woman’s empowerment profile
Identifies who is empowered
Shows how women are disempowered
Rigorous properties
GPI reflects two things:
1. The percentage of women who enjoy gender parity. A woman enjoys gender parity if
she is empowered or
if her empowerment score is equal to or greater than the empowerment score of the primary male in her household.
2. The empowerment gap - the average percentage shortfall that a woman without parity experiences relative to the male in her household.
The GPI adapts the Foster Greer Thorbecke Poverty Gap measure to reflect gender parity.
Production: decisions about agricultural production, including sole or joint decisionmaking power over food or cash-crop farming, livestock, and fisheries, as well as autonomy in agricultural production
Resources: access to and decisionmaking power over productive resources, including ownership of, access to, and decisionmaking power over productive resources such as land, livestock, agricultural equipment, consumer durables, and credit
Income: sole or joint control over income and expenditures
Leadership: Leadership in the community, including membership in economic or social groups and being comfortable with speaking in public
Time: allocation of time to productive and domestic tasks and satisfaction with the time available for leisure activities
CK
Leadership and resources biggest domain; asset ownership, credit decisions, decisions on sale/purchase; group membership most important indicators
How can we use the WEAI
To diagnose patterns of disempowerment and identify areas for policy intervention?
To understand the relationship between empowerment and desired outcomes in different socio-cultural contexts?
Two neat features of the WEAI:
Decomposable into its component domains and indicators
Based on extremely detailed individual- and household-level data
Use the WEAI to diagnose areas where gaps in empowerment exist for women in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Ghana, three very different socio-cultural contexts
See how outcomes related to food security and nutrition are correlated with indicators that contribute most to disempowerment using regression analysis
Learn from similarities and differences in the results to hypothesize how empowerment “works” in different social and cultural contexts