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Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index: Planning for Wealth & Efficiency

The Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) measures empowerment and inclusion of women in agriculture through decision-making power, resource access, income control, leadership, and time allocation. Despite high female involvement in agriculture, challenges persist, impacting productivity. This index aims to guide programs and interventions for enhanced empowerment in agriculture. Aiming to identify areas needing reinforcement, the WEAI expects to address disempowering factors and improve the status of both men and women in agriculture under PSTA4.

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Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index: Planning for Wealth & Efficiency

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  1. Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index May, 6th 2019 Planning for Wealth Accountability-Teamwork-Effectiveness & Efficiency

  2. Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index Survey Concept

  3. What is WEAI? The Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment, agency and inclusion of Women in Agriculture Sector. It looks at decisions about agricultural production, access to and decision-making power about productive resources, control of use of income, leadership in the community, and time allocation.

  4. The Challenge women are involved in agriculture at a high rate -Almost 80% of all women compared to 62% of men- but the majority of female-headed households is still poor -24% as compared to 19% of male headed households-. female-managed farm are 12% less productive than a male-managed farm. female farms are 10.5% smaller than those managed by men; female farm managers spent 35% less on fertilisers and insecticides than farms managed by males …Impact on Agriculture production and productivity

  5. Responding to the Challenge Elaboration and implementation of the Gender Mainstreaming strategy Gender responsive Budgeting and implementation Set up of special interventions for women empowerment (eg: RIF2) Gender Mainstreaming in Agriculture MIS ….....However, the Challenge is still there…

  6. Purpose of the Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index To provide baseline on the status of women in Agriculture, and track the women empowerment responsiveness of different agricultural programmes. To guide the planning on identification of key areas in which empowerment for both men and women needs to be enhanced. To closely monitor potential women empowerment factors across programmes under PSTA/SPAT and, if needed, make some adjustments.

  7. Why A-WEAI?

  8. Expected Results The status of empowerment for both men and women at the beginning of PSTA 4 (at District level), To identify key areas where empowerment needs to be reinforced To identify disempowering factors to be addressed in the course of PSTA4

  9. Status • Project proposal (including budget) elaborated • Fund raising completed (DFID, IFAD SPIU,UNWOMEN and FAO will financially support the WEAI) • Budget: USD 305,000 • Technical Committee established (MINAGRI, MIGEPROF, GMO, MINALOC,NISR,DFID, FAO and UNWOMEN ) • Chair: MINAGRI • Co-Chair: DFID • Recruitment of consultants completed • IMC is the Consulting Company that was recruited

  10. WEAI Timeline

  11. Thank you Planning for Wealth Accountability-Teamwork-Effectiveness & Efficiency

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