Caitlin Kieran, Kathryn Sproule, Cheryl R. Doss, Agnes Quisumbing et al.
Abstract A broad consensus has emerged among both policymakers and researchers that strengthening women's property rights is crucial for reducing poverty and achieving equitable growth. Despite the important role of land in rural livelihoods and as a form of wealth in many Asian countries, surprisin...
Hazel Malapit, Kathryn Sproule, Chiara Kovarik, Ruth Meinzen‐Dick et al.
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s 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 Government’s Feed the Future initiative. ...
Caitlin Kieran, Kathryn Sproule, Agnes Quisumbing, Cheryl R. Doss
Using nationally representative data from Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam, this paper investigates which individual and household characteristics influence men’s and women’s landownership across and within households. Often neglected in household-level statistics, married women in a...
Hazel Malapit, Crossley Pinkstaff, Kathryn Sproule, Chiara Kovarik et al.
The fifth Sustainable Development Goal—to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”—reflects a growing consensus that these are key objectives of development policy in their own right, while also contributing to improved productivity and increased efficiency, especially in agricultur...
Hazel Malapit, Kathryn Sproule, Chiara Kovarik
IFPRI3; Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index; CRP2; Capacity Strengthening; G Cross-cutting gender theme
Hazel Malapit, Crossley Pinkstaff, Kathryn Sproule, Chiara Kovarik et al.
The fifth Sustainable Development Goal—to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls†—reflects a growing consensus that these are key objectives of development policy in their own right, while also contributing to improved productivity and increased efficiency, especially in ag...
Hazel Malapit, Kathryn Sproule, Chiara Kovarik, Malapit, Hazel Jean L. et al.
The purpose of cognitive interviewing is to systematically identify and analyze sources of response error in surveys, and to use that information to improve the quality and accuracy of survey instruments. This paper describes the cognitive interviews undertaken in Bangladesh and Uganda in 2014 as pa...
Kathryn Sproule, Caitlin Kieran, Agnes Quisumbing, Cheryl R. Doss
Despite increasing evidence that households do not always function as one, policies regarding land and property rights are often formulated at the household level, assuming the primary adult male is the landowner. Because land policy reform has typically focused on changing household, rather than in...
Chiara Kovarik, Hazel Malapit, Kathryn Sproule, Kovarik, Chiara et al.
This presentation uses the example of cognitively pretesting the revised Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index in Uganda and Bangladesh to explore how this method was used to create a questionnaire that more accurately captures the challenging topic of women’s empowerment. In particular, it serve...
Caitlin Kieran, Kathryn Sproule, Cheryl R. Doss, Agnes Quisumbing et al.
A broad consensus has emerged that strengthening women’s property rights is crucial for reducing poverty and achieving equitable growth. Despite its importance, few nationally representative data exist on women’s property rights in Asia, hindering formulation of appropriate policies to reduce gender...
Chiara Kovarik, Hazel Malapit, Kathryn Sproule
This presentation uses the example of cognitively pretesting the revised Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index in Uganda and Bangladesh to explore how this method was used to create a questionnaire that more accurately captures the challenging topic of women’s empowerment. In particular, it serve...