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    • About The Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP) project is jointly led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). The GAAP initiative works with agricultural development projects in South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa to identify how development projects impact women’s assets and to clarify which strategies have been successful in reducing gender gaps in asset access, control and ownership.  In Round 1 of the GAAP initiative eight different agricultural development projects were chosen to be a part of the GAAP portfolio (see Round 1 portfolio for specific project information).  The GAAP team from IFPRI and ILRI is working with project M&E and implementation focal points to review existing baseline surveys and develop new targeted qualitative and quantitative studies to document men’s and women’s assets and the change in those levels over the life of the project in question.  As part of GAAP, each partner project will receive trainings and technical assistance in methods to identify and address gender disparities in assets based on their own needs. You can read the final GAAP proposal here The following is an overview of key questions and concepts related to collection of gender and assets. Q. How…
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    • Portfolio After a competitive process, we are pleased to announce the 8 participating projects in the Gender Agriculture and Assets Project round 1 portfolio.   This portfolio represents a diverse array of agricultural and dairy interventions from throughout South Asia, East Africa and West Africa 1)  Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR), BRAC , Bangladesh The goal of the CFPR program is to assist the ultra poor in graduating from the ultra poverty level and accessing mainstream development programming.  The CFPR program provides small grants to female members of ultra poor households in rural Bangladesh.  Participating households are  provided assets (including cattle, goats, poultry birds or land for horticulture) and intensive training on how to utilize the assets (including improved technology and management practices).  The first phase of the CFPR went from 2002 to 2006.  The second phase of the program was launched in 2007 and will end in 2011.  Thus far the program has reached 400,000 ultra poor women and their families from the poorest regions of Bangladesh. 2) Enhanced Homestead Food Production (E-HFP), Helen Keller International (HKI), Burkina Faso The goal of the E-HFP program is to improve the nutritional status of infants, young children and mothers through…
      • BRAC (Bangladesh)The goal of the CFPR program is to assist the ultra poor in graduating from the ultra poverty level and accessing mainstream development programming.  The CFPR program provides small grants to female members of ultra poor households in rural Bangladesh.  Participating households are  provided assets (including cattle, goats, poultry birds or land for horticulture) and intensive training on how to utilize the assets (including improved technology and management practices).  The first phase of the CFPR went from 2002 to 2006.  The second phase of the program was launched in 2007 and will end in 2011.  Thus far the program has reached 400,000 ultra poor women and their families from the poorest regions of Bangladesh.
      • CARE (Bangladesh)Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain in Bangladesh (SDVC), CARE Bangladesh, Bangladesh The goal of the SDVC project is to improve the dairy-related incomes of 35 000 smallholder farmers in northwest Bangladesh. The project seeks to achieve its goal by addressing the major challenges to improving smallholder participation in the value chain, namely farmer mobilization and education, access to markets for their milk, and access to productivity-enhancing inputs.  The project assists in the formation of dairy farmer groups, selection of farmer group leaders, selection of dairy collectors and livestock health workers and training of all those involved.
      • CSISA (South Asia)Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA), South Asia The CSISA project was launched in 2009 with a goal to reduce food and income security in South Asia through accelerated development and deployment of new cereal varieties, sustainable crop and resource systems management practices and better access to information.  The project includes widespread delivery and adaptation of production and postharvest technologies to increase cereal production and raise income; and promotion of (i) crop and resource management practices, (ii) high-yielding, stress tolerant and disease-and insect resistant rice, wheat and maize varieties and hybrids.
      • EADD (East Africa)
      • Harvest Plus (Uganda)Reaching End Users Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato Project (REU), Harvest Plus, Uganda The goal of the HarvestPlus Reaching End Users (REU) orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) project is to increase vitamin A intake among vulnerable populations in rural Uganda.  The project introduced betacarotene- rich OFSP and related messages concerning agronomy, nutrition and marketing, in order to induce broad OFSP adoption, increase vitamin A intakes and reduce vitamin A deficiency for children and women in Uganda.  OFSP vines were disseminated through already existing farmers groups which were composed largely or entirely of women. This project and evaluation were intended to provide a “proof of concept” of a multi-million dollar effort to support biofortification as a strategy to reduce micronutrient deficiency.
      • HKI (Burkina Faso)Enhanced Homestead Food Production (E-HFP), Helen Keller International (HKI), Burkina Faso The goal of the E-HFP program is to improve the nutritional status of infants, young children and mothers through improved access to nutritious foods year round and the adoption of optimal nutritional practices. The E-HFP program helps  young mothers establish homestead gardens in the Fada region of Burkina Faso.  The project provides inputs (hens, seeds) and trainings in gardening, irrigation and small livestock rearing to beneficiary women.  In addition, the project establishes and trains a system of community level trainers who in turn train beneficiary women in improved nutrition practices using behavior change communications. The project was started in 2010 and will run until 2012.
      • KickStart International (Tanzania & Kenya)Kickstart International,Tanzania and Kenya The objective of the KickStart project is to indirectly improve hygiene, sanitation, health and nutrition in rural East Africa through promotion of Kickstart International’s manually operated, economically affordable, locally manufactured treadle pumps.  Information about the pumps is disseminated via radio, TV, printed media and public demonstrations. Pumps are marketed through local businesses and NGOs.  Kickstart collects detailed information about sex and location of pump buyers and is collaborating with IFPRI to better understand the gender dynamics of who purchases and controls pumps.
      • Landesa (India)Micro-land ownership for India’s Landless Agricultural Laborers, Landesa, India The micro-land ownership program strives to reduce poverty through improved homestead development in Odisha and West Bengal.  The project works through local communities and government to assist with allocation or regularization of land and also provides assistance with housing and basic inputs (seeds), capacity building in homestead food production and promotes local development of roads, water, terrain leveling etc.
      • Land O’ Lakes (Mozambique)Mozambique Smallholder Dairy Development Program (MSDDP), Land O’ Lakes, Mozambique The Mozambique Smallholder Dairy Development Program (MSDDP) in Manica Province has two primary objectives: 1) rebuilding Mozambique’s dairy industry to meet market demand and 2) increasing incomes for smallholder farmers by participating in a sustainable dairy value chain.  The program provides inputs (dairy cows), trainings (fodder crop and pasture management, animal husbandry), and assistance in establishment of producer cooperatives, milk collection centers and marketing campaigns.
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    • Toolkit As part of the GAAP project we will develop a gender and assets toolkit to help practitioners, policymakers and researchers integrate gender and assets into quantitative and qualitative evaluations.  This toolkit is a work in progress.  It will be developed over the lifespan of the project and modified based on what we learn from partner organizations throughout the project. What follows is the start of the toolkit, including a selection of resources to help incorporate gender and assets into evaluations. _____________________________________________________________________ Background Information on Evaluation Design, Methods & Data Collection ILRI Gender, Livestock and Livelihood Indicators Guide (Jan 2011).  This guide is an attempt to systematize the collection of gender disaggregated assets, technologies and income data. Access it here LSMS – ISA web resources on general questionnaire design.  Access it here The following are a selection of presentations from the GAAP inception workshop on data collection and evaluation methods: Gender Strategies and Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation Qualitative Methods for Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment Quantitative Impact Evaluation Methods Data Needs on Measuring Impacts on Women’s Assets and Asset Disparities Conceptual Framework for Identifying Gendered Impacts of Agricultural Programs _____________________________________________________________________ Examples The following are examples of past quantitative and qualitative…
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        • Quantitative There are a variety of methods for undertaking quantitative impact evaluations (see Ravallion 2007, Todd 2007, Duflo et al. 2007, for examples).  This toolkit does not discuss these methods but focuses on how to collect gender-disaggregated data that can be used in quantitative impact evaluations. Household and individual-level data are typically collected using quantitative household surveys with a standardized questionnaire, typically with fixed coded responses, although some may allow open-ended responses to be coded later. Data for quantitative analyses may include panel data for the same households over a number of years, which allow for analysis of changes over time. Some of the surveys collect data at the level of the individual household member, which allows for comparison between men and women, and also helps to capture the full range of livelihood strategies within the household. Sampling to cover the range of wealth/poverty categories is critical for these types of surveys. Although some qualitative data are included in the surveys, researchers analyze most survey data—including qualitative responses–using statistical or econometric techniques in statistics packages such as SPSS, Stata or SAS. Examples of quantitative instruments with good gender and assets modules Demographic & Health Surveys (DHS) 2008 Module on domestic violence…
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        • Q Squared: Combined Qualitative & QuantitativeBy using data from a variety of sources and qualitative and quantitative methods, it is possible to cover a wide range of issues and topics relatively efficiently. Rather than seeing this as a second-best solution, such a combined approach can actually provide a more convincing analysis than any single method. This is because studies have found that people respond differently to quantitative and qualitative information. Numbers are required to convince some audiences, while others will be unimpressed by numbers, but relate more to in-depth and contextual information gathered using qualitative techniques.  Triangulation, where several types of data are used in a single study, and used to cross-check and compare results, enables any weaknesses in one method to be offset by the strengths of another. An assessment of 57 mixed method studies identified five purposes for mixing methods: (1) triangulation—seeking convergence of results; (2) complementarities—examining overlapping and different facets of a phenomenon; (3) initiation—discovering paradoxes, contradictions, fresh perspectives; (4) development—using the methods sequentially, such that results from the first method inform the use of the second method; and (5) expansion—adding breadth and scope to a project.[1] [1] Greene, Caracelli, and Graham (1989), cited in Adato (2007).
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Event: Soft launch of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

October 23, 2018 by GAAP2

Earlier this year, the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2) launched the pilot version of the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI), a new survey-based index for measuring empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agriculture sector. On October 25th, the GAAP2 team will introduce the latest version of the pro-WEAI at a special event at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: event, launch, pro-WEAI, WEAI

Using pro-WEAI to learn broader lessons about women’s empowerment in Nepal

October 23, 2018 by Alex Russell

In this blog, Alex Russell of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access describes the Heifer International SLVC program, a program intended to help poor rural women in Nepal create a sustainable pathway out of poverty. As part of their impact evaluation, the program piloted the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture >> Read more

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: empowerment, goat, Heifer, Nepal, pro-WEAI, self-help groups, WEAI, women

Introducing pro-WEAI: A tool for measuring women’s empowerment in agricultural development projects

April 27, 2018 by Elena Martinez and Greg Seymour

Photo credit: Farha Khan/IFPRI

In April 2018, the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2), launched the pilot version of the Project-Level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI). Pro-WEAI is a new survey-based index for measuring empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agriculture sector. Developed jointly by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Oxford >> Read more

Filed Under: GAAP2, WEAI Tagged With: A-WEAI, empowerment, gender, men, pro-WEAI, WEAI, women

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What is GAAP2?

The Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP), led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is currently in its second phase. Working with a portfolio of agricultural development projects, GAAP2 will adapt and validate a measure of women’s empowerment for use by agricultural development agencies and project implementers to diagnose key areas of disempowerment, design appropriate strategies to address deficiencies, and monitor project outcomes related to women’s empowerment. GAAP2 will also develop evidence-based strategies to target, engage and empower women through agricultural development projects.

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