Replication Data for: Designing for Empowerment Impact in Agricultural Development Projects

Author(s)
  • International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Release Year 2018
Regions
  • Southern Asia
  • Asia
  • World
Themes
  • Women's empowerment
  • Crops and technologies
  • Nutrition and health
Source HARVARD Dataverse
Data collection period -
Usage Rights
Access Open
License CC-BY
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The data are provided ‘as is’ and in no event shall IFPRI be liable for any damages resulting from the use of the data. While great effort was taken to obtain high-quality data, the accuracy or reliability of the data is not guaranteed or warranted in any way.
Methodology
Instrument Structured questionnaire
Sampling We aimed to construct a sample size that gave an 80% chance of rejecting the null hypothesis of zero change in outcome indicators at the 0.05 level of significance. For our power calculations, we used parameters derived from the 2011–2012 round of the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS), which is statistically representative of national rural Bangladesh. For outcome indicators, we used per capita daily calorie availability for food security and the household Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index score (collected as part of BIHS) for empowerment. These showed that, relative to the control group, 25 clusters and 500 households were needed in each treatment arm to detect a 10% increase in empowerment. Based on these calculations, we next worked with officials at the Ministry of Agriculture to identify rural upazilas (sub-districts) that were agro-ecologically suitable for agricultural diversification and had good market connectivity. From a list of 484 such upazilas, we collaborated with the Ministry to purposively select 16 upazilas, such that each of the administrative divisions of Bangladesh were represented. Each upazila is divided into “blocks”; each block has an AEA. There were 525 blocks in these 16 upazilas. We randomly selected 10 blocks from each upazila, yielding 160 blocks. These were randomly assigned as follows: 25 blocks to each treatment arm described above; 35 blocks to the control group; and 25 blocks to the second BCC intervention described in footnote 2. We randomly selected one village from each block, then conducted a 100 percent census of households in each of the 160 selected villages. Thereafter, we listed all farm households with at least one child under 24 months from the village census lists. We randomly selected 25 farm households for each of the 160 blocks from village census lists of farm households with at least one child under 24 months, because child nutrition was also an outcome of interest. This yielded 625 households in each treatment arm (2,500 households in total) and 875 households in the control group, for a total sample of 3,375 households. Baseline data were collected between November 2015 and January 2016. Endline data were collected between January and March 2018. In each household, both the primary female beneficiary and primary male beneficiary were interviewed. Although the male and female beneficiaries were interviewed separately, some modules were answered by only the male (e.g., household demographics, assets and wealth, agricultural production, non-food consumption and expenditures), some were answered by only the female (e.g., food consumption and food security indicators, dietary data, anthropometry, women’s status and decision-making autonomy, experience of IPV), and some were answered separately by each (e.g., data needed to construct the WEAI, gender attitudes, time preferences, agency). Several modules related to empowerment, gender attitudes, IPV, and experience with the program were administered only at endline. In the case of empowerment, the pro-WEAI (see below) was administered at endline but was not available at baseline as it was still under development; instead, at baseline, the abbreviated WEAI (A-WEAI, see Malapit et al. 2017) was fielded. Questions on gender attitudes and IPV were motivated in part by the Nurturing Connections curriculum, which was made available after baseline, thus were included only at endline
Unit of analysis Household
Universe Farm households with at least one child under 24 months
Contact point IFPRI-Data
DOI https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KPGQGH
Funding Organisations United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
Projects CRP - Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)
Providers International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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full citation International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2021. Replication Data for: Designing for Empowerment Impact in Agricultural Development Projects. Washington, DC: IFPRI [dataset]https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KPGQGH. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

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Abstract

The dataset consists of the replication files from the analysis of the empowerment impact of the Agriculture, Gender, and Nutrition Linkages (ANGeL) project in Bangladesh. ANGeL was a cluster-randomized controlled trial implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Bangladesh, with IFPRI as its evaluation partner. ANGeL aimed to assess interventions that can leverage agricultural growth to increase farm household incomes, improve nutrition, and enhance women’s empowerment in Bangladesh. There were three types of interventions: (1 ) Agriculture Production: Facilitating the production of the high-value food commodities that are rich in essential nutrients; (2) Nutrition Knowledge: Conducting high-quality behavior change communication (BCC) to improve the nutrition knowledge of women and men; (3) Gender Sensitization: Undertaking gender sensitization activities that lead to the improvement in the status/empowerment of women and gender parity between women and men. We implemented a clustered randomized controlled trial with the following arms: T-A: Agricultural Production training; T-N: Nutrition Behavior Change Communication (BCC); T-AN: Agricultural Production training and Nutrition BCC; T-ANG: Agricultural Production training, Nutrition BCC, and Gender Sensitization; and C: Control. Details on sampling can be found in Quisumbing et al. (2021). Baseline data were collected between November 2015 and January 2016. Endline data were collected between January and March 2018. In each household, both the primary female beneficiary and primary male beneficiary were interviewed. Although the male and female beneficiaries were interviewed separately, some modules were answered by only the male (e.g., household demographics, assets and wealth, agricultural production, non-food consumption, and expenditures), some were answered by only the female (e.g., food consumption and food security indicators, dietary data, anthropometry, women’s status and decision-making autonomy, the experience of IPV), and some were answered separately by each (e.g., data needed to construct the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), gender attitudes, time preferences, agency). Several modules related to empowerment, gender attitudes, IPV, and experience with the program were administered only at endline. In the case of empowerment, the pro-WEAI (Malapit et al. 2019) was administered at endline but was not available at baseline as it was still under development; instead, at baseline, the abbreviated WEAI (A-WEAI, see Malapit et al. 2017) was fielded. Questions on gender attitudes and IPV were motivated in part by the Nurturing Connections curriculum, which was made available after baseline, thus were included only at endline.