Building a WEAI for project use: Overview of GAAP2 for pro-WEAI
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The document outlines the development of a Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) tailored for project use (pro-WEAI), focusing on the needs and adaptations desired by agricultural projects for effective monitoring and evaluation. It describes the second phase of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP2), supported by various organizations, aiming to enhance women's empowerment through innovative strategies and community practices. The GAAP2 approach involves customizing WEAI modules for projects, piloting them, and fostering collaboration among project teams and researchers for continuous learning and improvement.
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
Editor's Notes
- #7: 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
- #8: We are also implicitly testing these strategies, which can cut across commodities or goals.
- #10: imp
- #12: “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)