The 2015 adoption of Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG5)—achieving women’s empowerment and gender equality—prompted a growth in metrics to monitor global progress toward this goal. With the February 22 launch of the Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS), IFPRI Director General Johan Swinnen noted, “we are seeing a major step in the long-running strategy to come up […]
Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)
Women's Empwoerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) The two-day Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) event is the soft launch of a streamlined tool for measuring women’s empowerment, which is suitable for use by national statistical systems in large-scale, multitopic surveys. WEMNS is being developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Emory […]
Policy seminar: New pro-WEAI modules gauge women’s empowerment in nutrition and health, market inclusion
Since the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) launched in 2012, at least 247 organizations in 59 countries have used its various versions and tools for measuring women’s empowerment and gender equity. This uptake demonstrates a growing demand for validated tools focusing on these issues across geographic contexts and livelihoods. A March 2 IFPRI policy seminar marked […]
Measuring What Matters: 10 Years of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, why has it mattered, and what’s next?
Measuring What Matters: 10 Years of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, why has it mattered, and what’s next? Women are key to agricultural transformation around the world, but various obstacles and economic constraints limit their contributions to their households and communities. The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is an innovative tool that seeks to identify […]
Choosing the right WEAI
Though they all measure empowerment, different versions of WEAI exist for different uses, including the original WEAI, which is reported at the country or regional level, the Abbreviated WEAI (A-WEAI), and a version for project use, pro-WEAI. Pro-WEAI also has specialized modules related to health and nutrition, livestock, and market inclusion. But which WEAI instrument […]