Can Agricultural Development Projects Reach, Benefit, and Empower Women? Results from South Asia and Africa using the Project-Level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro WEAI)

This panel session includes eight papers evaluating the impact of gender sensitive agricultural development programs using the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI), co-developed with 13 agricultural development projects in 9 countries in Africa and South Asia. The objective of this session is to compare findings related to women’s empowerment across program components and contexts and demonstrate the pro-WEAI as an evaluation tool.

Moderator/organisers:
Agnes Quisumbing, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Brooke Krause, The College of Wooster, USA

Agnes Quisumbing, IFPRI

Designing for empowerment impact in agricultural development projects: Experimental evidence from the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) Project, Bangladesh

Agnes Quisumbing, IFPRI

Introduction to pro-WEAI

Bobbi Gray, Grameen Foundation

Understanding women’s empowerment in Burkina Faso through use of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI): A mixed methods study

Brooke Krause, The College of Wooster, USA 

Pastoralists and Power: The Impact of a Food Security Program on Women’s Agency in Northern Tanzania

Greg Seymour, IFPRI

How well does pro-WEAI detect project impacts? A multi-country validation and sensitivity analysis

Jessica Heckert, IFPRI 

Can a gender-sensitive integrated poultry value chain and nutrition intervention in Burkina Faso impact women’s empowerment

Marya Hillesland, FAO

Did a microfinance ‘plus’ programme empower female farmers and pastoralists and improve intrahousehold equality in rural Ethiopia?

Nehar Kumar, IFPRI

Impacts of nutrition-intensification efforts integrated into a women’s self-help group-based livelihood project on women’s nutrition: evidence from India

Ruth Meinzen-Dick, IFPRI

Measuring empowerment in agricultural development projects using pro-WEAI