Ifpri Podcast

Presenters: Audrey Pereira, Research Analyst, IFPRI Elena Martinez, Research Analyst, IFPRI Emily Myers, Research Analyst, IFPRI The pro-WEAI is a new survey-based index that builds on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and is adapted for project use with a closer focus on aspects of empowerment related to health and nutrition. The index is being developed by IFPRI’s Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2), a learning and capacity-building initiative working with 13 agricultural development projects, which is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Feed the Future (led by USAID), and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH). The GAAP2 team will introduce the latest version of the pro-WEAI as a measure of women’s empowerment and orient potential users to the WEAI Resource Center. Panelists representing organizations that are potential users of pro-WEAI will discuss how the tool can support knowledge management in their projects. The