An inception workshop for the Gender, Agriculture & Assets Project Phase 2 (GAAP2) titled Developing Project-Level Indicators to Measure Women’s Empowerment was held in January 2016.
In this presentation, Nancy Johnson of IFPRI discusses how the project level WEAI (pro-WEAI) will be constructed in GAAP2 and talks about the structure of GAAP2 and the different components of the project.
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Building a WEAI for project use: Overview of GAAP2 for pro-WEAI
1. Building a WEAI for project use:
Overview of GAAP2 for pro-WEAI
Nancy Johnson
Agnes Quisumbing
Ruth Meinzen-Dick
2. What projects want from WEAI
More streamlined, easier to collect indicators that can be
part of regular M&E
Better adaptability to their own project contexts, specifics
of their own intervention
In some cases, modules related to mobility, gender-based
violence, reproductive health, self-confidence, political
participation (CARE), shocks/resilience (FAO/IFAD),
agricultural extension (iDE/IWMI), etc.
Better understanding of the qualitative aspects of
empowerment (how and why?)
3. What projects want from WEAI
Depending on the project
More detail on some areas (livestock), less detail in others
(crops) for a livestock project, the reverse for crop projects
Extends beyond agriculture
Greater emphasis on autonomy in different spheres (control over
income or participation in labor force, not necessarily agricultural
decisions)
Ability to tackle dimensions of empowerment that relate to
health and nutrition outcomes
4. GAAP2 for pro-WEAI
A second phase of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project
(GAAP)
supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID,
and CRP on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)
Builds on approach of GAAP1 (2009-2013)
Portfolio of 8 agricultural development projects in South
Asia and Africa
Incorporated indicators of women’s access to, ownership
of and control over assets into existing impact
evaluations
5. GAAP2 for pro-WEAI
Innovations in GAAP2 (2015-2020)
Develop and pilot a WEAI for project use (pro-WEAI)
Larger portfolio (16 projects) selected to enable
clustering by
Commodity focus (crops, livestock)
Project goal (income, nutrition)
Strategies to empower women
More opportunities for learning and sharing across
projects
6. Tentative GAAP2 project portfolio-
Goal x commodity clusters
Income Nutrition Both
Crops
3D4AgDev
(Malawi)
MOA-ANGeL
(Bangladesh)
BRAC-TRAIN
(Bangladesh)
AVRDC (Mali)
DAI –AVC (Bangladesh)
IFPRI-WLE (Ghana)
Bioversity (Mali)
Livestock Project Mesha
(India--Bihar)
Heifer (Nepal)
Trias (Tanzania)
Both WINGS (India)
HKI-FAARM
(Bangladesh)
CARE Pathways (Mali and
Ghana)
Feed the Future Nigeria-CRS
(Nigeria)
Freedom from Hunger
(Burkina Faso)
JP-RWEE (Ethiopia)
7. Strategies that projects are using to reach and
empower women
Target women and monitor whether they are being reached
Involve women in project activities (e.g., trainings) and
ensure they receive benefits (e.g., new technologies, cash
or asset transfers)
Involve women in prioritizing and designing innovations
Strengthen women’s involvement in collective action, e.g.,
through group formation, to enable them to access and to
benefit from opportunities
Many projects include innovative financial mechanisms
Raise awareness and change attitudes about gender norms
and roles in social and political institutions (e.g., family,
community, markets, state agencies)
8. How will GAAP2 work?
Develop WEAI modules that individual projects can choose from
Customize A-WEAI for a specific type of project
Add modules not included in A-WEAI
Each project pilots its pro-WEAI in its (baseline) data collection
Analysis, validation, sharing of findings about pro-WEAI modules; revisions
to modules as needed
Projects pilot revised modules in subsequent rounds of data collection
Analysis
of project impacts on women’s empowerment, as measured by pro-WEAI and
other indicators
Comparative analysis and synthesis of project impacts on a range of outcome
indicators
Finalize pro-WEAI modules and protocols for broader dissemination
9. Who is in GAAP2?
Project teams -implementers and M&E partners
GAAP core team —PIs, program manager, research
assistants, virtual team facilitator (Radical Inclusion)
Project liaisons – researchers from IFPRI and other
CGIAR centers, Cultural Practice, Yale University
2 CG gender research fellows
OPHI – support on index development
AWARD and BRAC University– capacity building, lead
development of training materials based on pro-WEAI
content
2 AWARD placements will work with projects on
pro-WEAI
External Advisory Committee
10. GAAP2 Core Team,
Project Liaisons,
AWARD, OPHI
GAAP2 Projects
Community of Practice
Pro-WEAI
Community of
Practice
M&E Teams
Broader
public
Project
Implementers
Research and
Capacity
Strengthening
PIs
11. Communities of Practice
What is a community of practice (COP)?
Both physical and virtual, facilitated network of projects,
implementers, researchers, M&E specialists, etc.
GAAP2 CoP for GAAP2 participants
Cross-project opportunities beyond annual meetings for project
teams to interact, share, and learn from one another.
Opportunity to share experiences, questions, and emerging
insights
Facilitated by Radical Inclusion
Pro-WEAI CoP for anyone interested in pro-WEAI
Starts slowly and grows as pro-WEAI develops.
Housed on the WEAI Resource Center, based at IFPRI.
http://www.ifpri.org/topic/weai-resource-center
Discuss implications of fuzzy boundaries. Projects can cluster in different ways for different reasons in GAAP2. Key output from this workshop will be a good characterization of each project in terms of these 3 aspects and what it means for customizing a pro-WEAI.
Mention poster session and trivia contest
We are also implicitly testing these strategies, which can cut across commodities or goals.
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“It is through the process of sharing information and experiences with the group that the members learn from each other, and have an opportunity to develop themselves personally and professionally (Lave & Wenger 1991).”—(from Wikipedia)