About GAAP2
The second phase of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP2), led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), worked with a portfolio of 13 agricultural development projects to adapt and validate a measure of women’s empowerment. This effort resulted in the development of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI), which agricultural development projects can use to diagnose key areas of women’s (and men’s) disempowerment. GAAP2 also designed strategies to address these deficiencies and monitored project outcomes related to women’s empowerment. GAAP2 was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health (A4NH). It built upon findings from the first phase of the program (2009–2013), which contributed to the development of the asset, social capital, and time use components of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI).
GAAP2 Portfolio
A portfolio of agricultural development projects from South Asia and Africa, south of the Sahara, that focused on nutrition and/or income was selected through a competitive call for proposals. The GAAP2 team worked with these individual projects to use qualitative and quantitative data to understand how interventions differentially affected men and women, develop a project-appropriate way of measuring women’s empowerment in agriculture, and build capacity to use this tool. The projects were diverse and were clustered according to their main objectives (nutrition and/or income) and intervention areas (crops and/or livestock).
| Intervention Area/ Project Objective |
Nutrition | Income and Nutrition |
| Crops | ANGeL (Bangladesh) TRAIN (Bangladesh) |
AVC (Bangladesh) iDE (Ghana) WorldVeg (Mali) |
| Livestock | Heifer (Nepal) Maisha Bora (Tanzania) MoreMilk (Kenya) SE LEVER (Burkina Faso) |
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| Crops and Livestock | FAARM (Bangladesh) WINGS (India) |
Grameen (Burkina Faso) JP-RWEE (Ethiopia) |