A policy webinar to introduce the new health and nutrition (HN) and market inclusion (MI) indicators and guidance on nutrition-sensitive and market inclusion elements of agricultural development projects.
Date: Thursday, 2 March 2023
Time: 09:00-10:30AM (EST) / 22:00-23:00 (GMT+8)
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The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is the first-ever direct measure of women’s empowerment and inclusion in the agriculture sector. In response to demand from designers and implementors of agricultural development projects, OneCGIAR's IFPRI developed the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) to track the impacts of these projects on women’s empowerment.
To monitor and evaluate nutrition-sensitive and market inclusion interventions, two sets of add-on indicators were designed to complement the pro-WEAI in assessing women’s health and nutrition-related agency and to identify the constraints that women face as value chain and food system actors.
This Policy Seminar introduced the new health and nutrition (HN) and market inclusion (MI) indicators and explained how they can guide nutrition-sensitive and market-inclusion elements of agricultural development projects. A panel of stakeholders—project implementors, researchers, and donors—offered comments on these new tools and their relevance.
Opening Remarks
Purnima Menon, Senior Director for Food and Nutrition Policy, CGIAR; Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
Keynote Speakers
Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, Director, CGIAR Nutrition, Health & Food Security Impact Area Platform
Inge Brouwer, WUR and IFPRI, CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT)
Pro-WEAI+HN
Jessica Heckert, Research Fellow, IFPRI
Pro-WEAI+MI
Hazel Malapit, Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI
Panel Discussion
Elizabeth Kirkwood, Research Fellow, the Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Rahma Adam, Social Inclusion & Market Scientist, and East & Southern Africa Regional Focal Point for the One CGIAR Research and Development Initiatives, WorldFish
Geoffroy Gantoli, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
David Spielman, Senior Research Fellow/Program Leader-Rwanda, IFPRI
Closing Remarks
Farzana Ramzan, Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Moderator
Dan Gilligan, Deputy Director of Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division, IFPRI
Explore the blog stories below learn more about WorldFish's contributions to The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI):
-Testing tools to measure women’s empowerment in fisheries and aquaculture
-Gender research tools help design CGIAR projects for nutrition outcomes
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