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
Introducing pro-WEAI: A tool for measuring women’s empowerment in agricultural development projects
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
Using qualitative methods to understand the local meaning of women’s empowerment in Ethiopia
This blog was written by Dr. Susan Kaaria, Senior Gender Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy. Susan is member of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project Phase 2 (GAAP2) External Advisory Committee, and works on one of the projects in the GAAP2 portfolio, the UN Joint Programme >> Read more