The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index: What has changed and why

The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

Presenters:Part One: Emily Hogue, Ph.D., Team Lead for Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

Part Two: Farzana Ramzan, Ph.D., Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

USAID/Bureau for Food Security

Why the A-WEAI?

Goal = Cut field time of original WEAI by 30%

What has changed and why?Original WEAI Abbreviated WEAI

How will it be used?... a few possibilities:

Why so many WEAI’s?Different strokes for different folks!Application of the WEAI varies based on

need and context

Population-based surveys

Shorter survey

Intervention-specific

Original WEAI (1.0, 1.1)• WEAI 1.0 is the original survey (2012-2013)

– 19 Feed the Future countries collected baseline data

• WEAI 1.1 is slightly modified (2014)

– Changes to wording and response codes– Autonomy questions replaced with vignettes

• Five domains, ten indicators– 1.0 and 1.1 comparable

• Very comprehensive, but long to administer

Population-based surveys

A-WEAI

Shorter survey

Pro-WEAI• Project-/activity-level WEAI

• A-WEAI as starting point– Adds intervention-specific

modules/questions– Comparable to other

projects/activities working on similar interventions

• Pro-WEAI under development– Webinar and resources

available on Agrilinks

Intervention-specific

Thank you!