An overview of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index.
Slides are available in English and Spanish.
Training Videos
- Introduction to the WEAI: This video provides an overview of the WEAI, with data from the three pilot countries: Bangladesh, Guatemala, and Uganda.
- Calculating the WEAI – An Introduction: Sabina Alkire of OPHI introduces the concept and methodology of the WEAI and explains how the index is calculated.
- Calculating the WEAI – Using Stata .do files: Ana Vaz of OPHI takes users through the process of calculating the WEAI using stata .do files.
- WEAI Time Use module: In this tutorial, Md. Zahidul Hassan of Data Analysis and Technical Assistance (DATA-Bangladesh) explains how the WEAI time use module is implemented and answers some commonly asked questions.
Learning Events
- Pro-WEAI: A new tool for measuring women's empowerment in agricultural development projects: Video of the "soft launch" of pro-WEAI held at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy in April 2018.
- WEAI Workshop - Nov 2013: Video of a workshop held November 21, 2013 at IFPRI in Washington DC.
Webinars and Seminars
- The Feed the Future survey module and indicator construction: This webinar session provided information on how to calculate the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and its indicators. Emily Hogue of USAID and Hazel Malapit of IFPRI discussed the purpose of the Index for Feed the Future, how it is used as monitoring indicator and a diagnostic tool, and gave important information about resources to help with data collection and analysis.
- A-WEAI webinar: This webinar focuses on the newly-launched abbreviated version of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI). IFPRI’s WEAI Research Coordinator, Hazel Malapit, joined by Farzana Ramzan and Emily Hogue from USAID’s Bureau for Food Security, discuss the reasons for developing a shorter version of the WEAI, describe the development and piloting process, and highlight the differences between the AWEAI and the original WEAI.
- Measuring Women's Empowerment in Agricultural Development Programs (November 1, 2018) - Hazel Malapit of IFPRI discusses the development and use of the project-level WEAI (pro-WEAI) and the pro-WEAI health and nutrition module. This seminar was presented by the Cornell University Division of Nutritional Sciences as part of their Seminar on International Nutrition and co-sponsored by Gender-responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT) and CERES 2030.