The pro-WEAI is a new survey-based index that builds on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and is adapted for project use with a closer focus on aspects of empowerment related to health and nutrition. The index is being developed by IFPRI’s Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2), a learning and capacity-building initiative working with 13 agricultural development projects, which is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Feed the Future (led by USAID), and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH).

The GAAP2 team will introduce the latest version of the pro-WEAI as a measure of women’s empowerment and orient potential users to the WEAI Resource Center. Panelists representing organizations that are potential users of pro-WEAI will discuss how the tool can support knowledge management in their projects. The discussion will also solicit feedback from the broader development community, including donors, NGOs, and the private sector, about pro-WEAI’s usefulness in promoting women’s empowerment in agricultural projects and as part of national statistical surveys, and further discuss what policy implications can be derived from these analyses.

Presenters

• Frank Place, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets, IFPRI
• Marie Ruel, Director of Poverty, Health and Nutrition, IFPRI
• Caren Grown, Senior Director of Gender, The World Bank Group
• Agnes Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Hazel Malapit, Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI
• Jessica Heckert, Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Audrey Pereira,  Research Analyst, IFPRI
• Elena Martinez, Research Analyst, IFPRI
• Emily Myers, Research Analyst, IFPRI

Panelists

• Farzana Ramzan, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, USAID
• Jenn Williamson, Senior Director of Gender and Social Inclusion, ACDI/VOCA
• Florence Santos, Global Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager, Oxfam America
• Anuja Kar, Economist/ Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and Impact Evaluation Specialist, World Bank
• Lina Salazar, Senior Economist, Inter-American Development Bank

Moderator

• Dan Gilligan, Deputy Director of Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, IFPRI

Download the latest agenda here.