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Kalyani Raghunathan

Kalyani Raghunathan is Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in New Delhi, India. Her research lies at the intersection of agriculture, gender, social protection, and public health and nutrition, with a specific focus on South Asia and Africa. 

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Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)

Co-organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and IFPRI

September 20, 2023

  • 1:30 – 4:30 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 7:30 – 10:30 am (US/Eastern)
  • 5:00 – 8:00 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

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 University, Oxford University, and the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study Unit in collaboration with country partners and the 50×2030 Initiative, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development.

This event will present the WEMNS tool and discuss its use to further advance women’s empowerment.

IFPRI Participants