FR1.2: Women's Empowerment and Livestock Vaccination: evidence from PPR vaccination interventions in northern Ghana

cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationCAREen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeSustainable Animal Productivityen_US
cg.coverage.countryGhanaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2GHen_US
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierImmaculate Omondi: 0000-0002-0967-1252en_US
cg.creator.identifierAlessandra Galiè: 0000-0001-9868-7733en_US
cg.creator.identifierIsabelle Baltenweck: 0000-0002-4147-5921en_US
cg.creator.identifierNils Teufel: 0000-0001-5305-6620en_US
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen_US
cg.placeNairobi, Kenyaen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systemsen_US
cg.subject.ilriGENDERen_US
cg.subject.ilriVACCINESen_US
cg.subject.ilriPPRen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusionen_US
cg.subject.impactPlatformGenderen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen_US
dc.contributor.authorOmondi, Immaculate A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorGaliè, Alessandraen_US
dc.contributor.authorTeufel, Nilsen_US
dc.contributor.authorLoriba, Agnesen_US
dc.contributor.authorKariuki, Euniceen_US
dc.contributor.authorBaltenweck, Isabelleen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-23T06:52:10Zen_US
dc.date.available2022-11-23T06:52:10Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/125630en_US
dc.titleFR1.2: Women's Empowerment and Livestock Vaccination: evidence from PPR vaccination interventions in northern Ghanaen_US
dcterms.abstractHealthy livestock provide meaningful opportunities to enhance women's empowerment in low- and middle-income countries. Animal vaccines are important to keep livestock healthy and productive. However, gender-based restrictions limit women's access to animal health services, thereby affecting the potential of livestock to enhance their empowerment. While growing empirical evidence reveals that women-controlled livestock (for instance, small ruminants) have important implications for women's empowerment and support better household nutrition outcomes, little empirical evidence exists from rigorous analyses of the relationship between women's empowerment and animal vaccines for women-controlled livestock species. Our analysis explores the relationship between women's empowerment and involvement with Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) vaccination in Ghana. Data collected using the Women's Empowerment in Livestock Index tool from 465 women and 92 men farmers (who keep goats) from northern Ghana, analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equilibrium Model, revealed a significant direct positive association between knowledge about animal health and PPR vaccines and a significant indirect positive association between access to PPR vaccines and empowerment. A few, not all, indicators of empowerment, jointly and significantly explained empowerment of women goat farmers as far as the relationship between empowerment and vaccine facets is concerned. The significant indicators were "asset ownership" and "input into decisions" concerning livestock. These study results reveal important considerations in designing effective and equitable livestock vaccine systems.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationOmondi, Immaculate; Galiè, Alessandra; Teufel, Nils; Loriba, Agnes; Kariuki, Eunice; Baltenweck, Isabelle. 2022. Women's Empowerment and Livestock Vaccination: evidence from PPR vaccination interventions in northern Ghana. Presented a the CGIAR GENDER Science Exchange, Nairobi, 12-14 October 2022. Nairobi: International Livestock Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.issued2022-10en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.subjectagricultureen_US
dcterms.typePresentationen_US

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