Measuring Women's Empowerment in Large Scale Surveys…

In the past fifteen years considerable progress has been made in measuring women's empowerment. The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), developed by IFPRI in 2010, and its adaptations have been used by 271 organizations in 63 countries.

Building on the WEAI, IFPRI, Emory University and Oxford University worked in partnership with the World Bank on the development of a new metric for measuring women's empowerment: the Women's Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS). Under the umbrella of the 50x2030 Initiative to Close the Agricultural Data Gap, FAO contributes to the uptake of the metric integrating WEMNS in agricultural surveys of three partner countries: Sierra Leone, Liberia and Tanzania.

At the side event, IFPRI will present WEMNS, FAO will describe the efforts in partner countries for integrating WEMNS in agricultural surveys. Partner countries will share their experiences, successes, lessons learned and propose steps forward.