Women’s Empowerment in Beyond Production Impact Assessment

AgricultureGender
Written By Cate Urban

Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment Activity

To understand the degree to which AgDiv contributed to those changes and how meaningful the changes were, the AWE team used Feed the Future’s Gender Integration Framework and select measurement guidance from the Project-Level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index for Market Inclusion (PRO-WEAI+MI) survey tool. AWE grouped findings by the WEAI’s five domains: decision-making, access to control over resources, control over income, time use, and leadership and social capital.

Women selected for the AgDiv soy kit intervention experienced changes in both their access to resources and agency. Specifically, the study found that AgDiv contributed to the following changes:

  • Increased decision-making power in agricultural processes

  • Increased control over, ownership of, and access to resources

  • Increased control over income

  • Increased time-use agency

  • Increased social capital and leadership

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Women’s Empowerment in Beyond Production Impact Assessment

Source: USAID
Year: 2022

Cate Urban

I founded Urban Web Renovations after 11 years of leading global marketing strategies for nonprofit organizations in Washington, DC. In each position I held, one thing remained the same – my passion for managing web sites and social media accounts for both organizations and major thought leaders.

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