Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) assessment framework insights from the India pilot study

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR multi-centreen_US
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen_US
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationKREA Universityen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Massachusettsen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areasen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeGender Equalityen_US
cg.coverage.countryIndiaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2INen_US
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asiaen_US
cg.creator.identifierCatherine Ragasa: 0000-0002-8033-0784en_US
cg.creator.identifierJordan Kyle: 0000-0003-0551-8047en_US
cg.creator.identifierDina Najjar: 0000-0001-9156-7691en_US
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Innovation Policy and Scaling Uniten_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Uniten_US
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden_US
cg.number2313en_US
cg.placeWashington, DCen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformationen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusionen_US
dc.contributor.authorRagasa, Catherineen_US
dc.contributor.authorKyle, Jordanen_US
dc.contributor.authorYasmin, Sabinaen_US
dc.contributor.authorPande, Harshitaen_US
dc.contributor.authorSharma, Aanshien_US
dc.contributor.authorBasu, Sampurnaen_US
dc.contributor.authorNajjar, Dinaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-14T14:41:43Zen_US
dc.date.available2025-01-14T14:41:43Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/168968en_US
dc.titleWomen’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) assessment framework insights from the India pilot studyen_US
dcterms.abstractWomen’s equal participation and leadership in political and public life can boost a country’s long-term economic growth, foster social inclusion, and help countries reach the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Beyond these important outcomes, women’s inclusion in public life is a basic human right: Women deserve a role in making decisions, controlling resources, and shaping policies. Despite the importance of women’s voices and their empowerment in policy and decision-making processes, available metrics show that women’s policy and political empowerment remains low. Moreover, these metrics are inadequate in systematically tracking women’s voices and empowerment across different levels of decision-making. IFPRI developed an assessment framework—Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov)—to assess women’s voices and empowerment in national policy processes in agrifood systems. This paper presents results from the pilot testing of WEAGov in India from January to March 2024. In this paper, we present how the WEAGov tool works in the Indian context, analyze trends in the data that we collected during the pilot, and provide an overview of the status of women’s voices and empowerment in the agrifood policy process as of March 2024. The pilot testing in India provides useful lessons on improving the measurement of these outcomes and offers valuable policy insights on critical entry points for increasing women’s voices and empowerment in the national agrifood policy process, design, implementation, and evaluation.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationRagasa, Catherine; Kyle, Jordan; Yasmin, Sabina; Pande, Harshita; Sharma, Aanshi; et al. 2024. Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) assessment framework insights from the India pilot study. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2313. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/168968en_US
dcterms.extent98 p.en_US
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen_US
dcterms.issued2024-12-31en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserveden_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/155060en_US
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/149238en_US
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.137059en_US
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136489en_US
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/137611en_US
dcterms.subjectwomen's empowermenten_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.subjectagrifood systemsen_US
dcterms.subjectgovernanceen_US
dcterms.subjectpoliciesen_US
dcterms.subjectmeasurementen_US
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen_US

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