Measuring progress toward empowerment: Women's empowerment in agriculture index: Baseline report

Sabina Alkire, Emily Hogue, Chiara Kovarik, Hazel Jean Malapit, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, Farzana Ramzan and Kathryn Sproule

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Abstract: This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative. These poverty, health, and nutrition outcomes include both factors that might affect empowerment and outcomes that might result from empowerment. The analysis includes thirteen countries from five regions and compares their baseline survey scores. WEAI scores range from a high of 0.98 in Cambodia to a low of 0.66 in Bangladesh.

Keywords: Bangladesh; Cambodia; Ghana; Haiti; Honduras; Kenya; Liberia; Malawi; Nepal; Rwanda; Tajikistan; Uganda; Zambia; West Africa; Central Africa; East Africa; South Asia; Caribbean; Central America; Latin America; Africa south of Sahara; Africa; Asia; North America; gender; women; poverty; health; nutrition; income; households; agricultural development; food production; social indicators; empowerment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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