The bibliography below includes publications that have used the WEAI, A-WEAI, pro-WEAI, or pro-WEAI+MI tools, or a project-specific adaptation thereof.
The following publications are not related to IFPRI or the original WEAI, A-WEAI, pro-WEAI, or pro-WEAI+MI studies:
- ActionAid International. (2017). Promoting Opportunities for Women Empowerment and Rights (POWER): Baseline Report Summary. ActionAid International.
- Akter, S., Rutsaert, P., Luis, J., Htwe, N. M., San, S. S., Raharjo, B., & Pustika, A. (2017). Women’s empowerment and gender equity in agriculture: A different perspective from Southeast Asia. Food Policy, 69, 270-279.
- Bishop, D. (2012). Effectiveness Review: Copperbelt Livelihoods Project, Zambia.
- Bishop, D. (2012). Effectiveness Review: Improving Women’s Leadership and Effectiveness in Agricultural Governance, Nigeria.
- Caeyers, B., & Fuller, R. (2015). Women's Empowerment in Rwanda: Evaluation of women's economic leadership through horticulture planting material business.
- Caeyers, B., & Lombardini, S. (2015). Women's Empowerment in Indonesia: Evaluation of Papua women's empowerment.
- Crookston, B.T., West, J.H., Davis, S.F. et al. Understanding female and male empowerment in Burkina Faso using the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI): a longitudinal study. BMC Women's Health 21, 230 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-021-01371-9
- D’Souza, A., & Tandon, S. 2019. Intrahousehold nutritional inequities in rural Bangladesh. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 67(3), 625-657.
- Dupuis, S., Hennink, M., Wendt, A.S. et al. Women’s empowerment through homestead food production in rural Bangladesh. BMC Public Health 22, 134 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12524-2
- Feed the Future. 2018. “Bangladesh Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index Data Fact Sheet.” Washington, DC.
- Feed the Future. 2018. “Ethiopia Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index Data Fact Sheet.” Washington, DC.
- Feed the Future. 2018. “Feed the Future Northern Kenya Resilience and Economic Growth in Arid Lands (REGAL).” Washington, DC.
- Feed the Future. 2018. “Nepal Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index Data Fact Sheet.” Washington, DC.
- Feed the Future. 2018. “Uganda Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index Data Fact Sheet.” Washington, DC.
- Fuller, R. (2013). Effectiveness Review: Highlands Value Chain Development Alliance, Guatemala. Oxfam.
- Fuller, R. (2014). Effectiveness Review: Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods for Women and Vulnerable Groups in Chiradzulu District, Malawi.
- Fuller, R. (2014). Effectiveness Review: Safe Age of Marriage and Women’s Economic Empowerment, Yemen.
- Fuller, R. (2014). Effectiveness Review: Strengthening and Linking Women-Led Efforts to Promote Women’s Property and Literacy Rights in Sierra Leone.
- Fuller, R. (2014). Women’s Empowerment in Ethiopia: Evaluation of women’s beekeeping and access to financial services.
- Gupta, S., Pingali, P. L., & Pinstrup-Andersen, P. (2017). Women’s empowerment in Indian agriculture: does market orientation of farming systems matter?. Food Security, 9(6), 1447-1463.
- Hannan, Anika; Heckert, Jessica; James‐Hawkins, Laurie; and Yount, Kathryn M. 2020. Cognitive interviewing to improve women's empowerment questions in surveys: Application to the health and nutrition and intrahousehold relationships modules for the project‐level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index. Maternal & child nutrition, 16(1), e12871. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12871
- Hillesland, Marya; Kaaria, Susan; Mane, Erdgin; Alemu, Mihret; and Slavchevska, Vanya. 2021. Did a microfinance ‘plus’ programme empower female farmers and pastoralists and improve intrahousehold equality in rural Ethiopia? Evidence from an impact evaluation using a Project-Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Index (pro-WEAI) survey tool. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2037. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134482
https://www.ifpri.org/cdmref/p15738coll2/id/134482/filename/134693.pdf - Hillesland, Marya; Kaaria, Susan; Mane, Erdgin; Alemu, Mihret; and Slavchevska, Vanya. 2022. Does a joint United Nations microfinance ‘plus’ program empower female farmers in rural Ethiopia? Evidence using the pro-WEAI, World Development, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105909
- International Solutions Group. (2017). Ghana Power Baseline Study: Ghana Country Report. ActionAid International.
- International Solutions Group. (2017). Power Baseline Study: Rwanda Country Report. ActionAid International.
- International Solutions Group. (2017). Promoting Opportunities for Women Empowerment and Rights (POWER) Baseline Study: Bangladesh Country Report. ActionAid International.
- Janzen, Sarah, Nicholas Magnan, Sudhindra Sharma, and William Thompson. 2018. "Short-Term Impacts of a Pay-It-Forward Livestock Transfer and Training Program in Nepal." AEA Papers and Proceedings, 108: 422-25. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20181120
https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.2018112 - Johnson, Nancy. 2021. Evaluation of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 gender and empowerment frameworks and tools. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134453
https://www.ifpri.org/cdmref/p15738coll2/id/134453/filename/134664.pdf - Johnson, Nancy; Balagamwala, Mysbah; Pinkstaff, Crossley; Theis, Sophie; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Quisumbing, Agnes R. 2018. How do agricultural development projects empower women? What hasn’t worked and what might. Journal of Agriculture, Gender, and Food Security 3(2):1-19. https://doi.org/10.19268/JGAFS.322018.1
- Khan, M. T., Kishore, A., & Joshi, P. K. (2016). Gender and preference heterogeneity for Direct Seeded Rice with Drum Seeder: A case study of Men and Women Farmers in Maharashtra, India (No. 236229). Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
- Leder, S., & Sachs, C. E. (2019). Intersectionality at the gender–agriculture nexus: relational life histories and additive sex-disaggregated indices. In Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations, pp. 75-92. Routledge.
- Lombardini, S. (2015). Livelihoods in the Philippines: Impact evaluation of the project'scaling up sustainable livelihoods in Mindanao'.
- Lombardini, S. (2017). Women’s Empowerment in Armenia: Impact evaluation of the women's economic empowerment project in rural communities in Vayots Dzor region.
- Lombardini, S., & Bowman, K. (2015). Women's Empowerment in Pakistan: Impact evaluation of the empowering small scale producers in the dairy sector project.
- Lombardini, S., & McCollum, K. (2017). Using internal evaluations to measure organisational impact: a meta-analysis of Oxfam’s women’s empowerment projects. Journal of Development Effectiveness, 1-26.
- Lombardini, S., & Yoshikawa, K. (2015). Women’s Empowerment in Uganda: Impact evaluation of the project ‘Piloting gender sensitive livelihoods in Karamoja’.
- Martinez, Elena M.; Myers, Emily; and Pereira, Audrey. 2020. The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index. In Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture, eds. Carolyn E. Sachs, Leif Jensen, Paige Castellanos, and Kathleen Sexsmith. Part Three: Knowledge, Methods, and Access to Information, Chapter 23. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Gender-and-Agriculture/Sachs-Jensen-Castellanos-Sexsmith/p/book/9780367190019
- Mulema, Annet Abenakyo, Brenda Boonabaana, Liza Debevec, Likimyelesh Nigussie, Mihret Alemu, and Susan Kaaria. (2020). Spiraling up and down: Mapping women’s empowerment through agricultural interventions using the community capitals framework in rural Ethiopia. Community Development, 1-18.
- Ragsdale, K., Read-Wahidi, M. R., Wei, T., Martey, E., & Goldsmith, P. (2018). Using the WEAI+ to explore gender equity and agricultural empowerment: baseline evidence among men and women smallholder farmers in Ghana's Northern Region. Journal of Rural Studies, In Press.
- Ross, K. L., Zereyesus, Y. A., Shanoyan, A., & Amanor-Boadu, V. (2015). The health effects of women empowerment: recent evidence from Northern Ghana. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 18(1), 127-143.
- Salazar, L., Fahsbender, J., & Kim, N. 2019. Livestock transfers, food security, and women's empowerment: Evidence from a randomized phased-in program in Nicaragua.
- Salinger, A.P., Vermes, E., Waid, J.L. et al. The role of self-efficacy in women’s autonomy for health and nutrition decision-making in rural Bangladesh. BMC Public Health 24, 338 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-17663-2
- Stanley, V. 2015. Women in agriculture : the impact of male out-migration on women's agency, household welfare, and agricultural productivity (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group.
- Vigneri, M., & Lombardini, S. (2017). Women’s Empowerment in Mali: Impact evaluation of the educational project:‘Girls CAN–Promoting Secondary Education in West Africa’.
- Waid, Jillian, Amanda S. Wendt, Sheela S. Sinharoy, Abdul Kader, Sabine Gabrysch, Impact of a homestead food production program on women's empowerment: Pro-WEAI results from the FAARM trial in Bangladesh, World Development, Volume 158, 2022, 106001, ISSN 0305-750X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106001
- Zereyesus, Y. A., Amanor-Boadu, V., Ross, K. L., & Shanoyan, A. (2017). Does Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Matter for Children’s Health Status? Insights from Northern Ghana. Social indicators research, 132(3), 1265-1280.