Measuring progress toward empowerment

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Measuring progress toward empowerment

Author	: Malapit, Hazel J.
File Size	: 44,7 Mb
Publisher	: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Language	: English
Release Date	: 19 May 2024
ISBN	: 978186723xxxx
Pages	: 60 pages

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Measuring progress toward empowerment by Malapit, Hazel J. Book PDF Summary

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Womens Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Governments Feed the Future initiative. These poverty, health, and nutrition outcomes include both factors that might affect empowerment and outcomes that might result from empowerment. The analysis includes thirteen countries from five regions and compares their baseline survey scores. WEAI scores range from a high of 0.98 in Cambodia to a low of 0.66 in Bangladesh.

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