A5089514962- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Livestock and Poultry Management
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Rural development and sustainability
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Gender, Education, and Development Issues
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Social and Economic Development in India
- Medical and Agricultural Research Studies
- Blood donation and transfusion practices
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Iron Metabolism and Disorders
- African history and culture studies
- Organic Food and Agriculture
International Food Policy Research Institute
2014-2024
Pennsylvania State University
2010-2013
With growing commitment to women's empowerment by agricultural development agencies, sound methods and indicators measure are needed learn which types of projects or project-implementation strategies do not work empower women. The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), has been widely used, requires adaptation meet the need for monitoring assessing their impacts. In this paper, authors describe validation a project-level WEAI (or pro-WEAI) that can use identify key areas (and...
Nutrition-sensitive programs in low- and middle-income countries often aim to improve child nutrition outcomes part by empowering women. Although previous studies have found cross-sectional associations linking women's empowerment nutritional status, there is limited empirical evidence supporting the hypothesis that women as of an intervention will, turn, outcomes. We tested this using two waves data from a cluster-randomized controlled trial nutrition-sensitive agricultural program Burkina...
Abstract Women play important roles at different nodes of both agricultural and off-farm value chains, but in many countries their contributions are either underestimated or limited by prevailing societal norms gender-specific barriers. We use primary data collected Asia (Bangladesh, Philippines) Africa (Benin, Malawi) to examine the relationships between women’s empowerment, gender equality, participation a variety local chains that comprise food system. find chain specific node engagement...
This study assesses the utility of Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) questions regarding women's empowerment in context sub‐Saharan Africa. We examine use of, need for improvements to, data Ghana, Mozambique, Senegal, Uganda. Drawing on interviews conducted among gender health experts context‐specific literature, our findings reveal that although DHS are widely used, needs remain five areas: economic empowerment, knowledge legal rights recourse, participation decisionmaking, attitudes...
Women's empowerment is a process that includes increases in intrinsic agency (power within); instrumental to); and collective with). We used baseline data from two studies-Targeting Realigning Agriculture for Improved Nutrition (TRAIN) Bangladesh Building Resilience Burkina Faso (BRB)-to assess the measurement properties of survey questions operationalizing selected dimensions intrinsic, instrumental, project-level Empowerment Agricultural Index (pro-WEAI). applied unidimensional...
Understanding the types of food systems interventions that foster women's empowerment and women are able to benefit from different is important for development policy. SELEVER was a gender- nutrition-sensitive poultry production intervention implemented in western Burkina Faso 2017 2020 aimed empower women. We evaluated using mixed-methods cluster-randomized controlled trial, which included survey data 1763 households at baseline endline sub-sample two interim lean season surveys. used...
BackgroundBolstering farm-level crop diversity is one strategy to strengthen food system resilience and achieve global security. Women who live in rural areas play an essential role production; therefore, we aimed assess the associations between women's empowerment diversity.MethodsIn this secondary analysis of cross-sectional data, used data from four cluster-randomised controlled trials done Burkina Faso, India, Malawi, Tanzania. We assessed using indicators Women's Empowerment Agriculture...
Migration research commonly assumes that youth migrate as dependent family members or are motivated by current labor opportunities and immediate financial returns. These perspectives ignore how migration experiences, specifically motives remittance beh
Abstract Evidence on the cost‐effectiveness of multisectoral maternal and child health nutrition programmes is scarce. We conducted a prospective costing study two food‐assisted targeted to pregnant women children during first 1,000 days (pregnancy 2 years). Each was paired with cluster‐randomized controlled trial evaluate impact compare optimal quantity composition food rations (Guatemala, five treatment arms) their timing duration (Burundi, three arms). calculated total per beneficiary...
Development interventions increasingly include women's empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but evaluating impact has been stymied by the lack of measures that are comparable across interventions. This paper synthesizes findings 11 mixed-methods evaluations agricultural development projects from South Asia sub-Saharan Africa were part Gender, Agriculture, Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2). As GAAP2, qualitative quantitative data used to develop validate multidimensional...
Using frameworks on gendered transitions to adulthood, we analyse nationally-representative, sex-disaggregated data from 36 countries examine how structural transformation (share of GDP non-agriculture) and rural (agricultural value added per worker) are associated with landownership, labour force participation, sector employment for young women men. Transformation has different implications men's women's transition adulthood. Higher levels a higher likelihood landownership men, but not...
Informal milk trading in peri-urban Nairobi plays a key role supporting both livelihoods and nutrition, particularly among poor households. Gender dynamics affect who is involved benefits from trading. To better understand gendered constraints opportunities informal, dairy marketing, qualitative study was conducted 2017 with 45 men 50 women traders Dagoretti, area of Nairobi, Kenya. The findings show that more lucrative for older than younger the respondents. This article illustrates...
ABSTRACT Time use, or how women and men allocate their time, is an important element of empowerment processes. To extend this area study, article proposes explores the concept time‐use agency, which shifts focus from amount time individuals spend on activities to strategic choices they make about time. It draws 92 semi‐structured interviews three qualitative studies in Benin, Malawi Nigeria explore compare salience agency as a component empowerment. The finds that salient among dictates can...
Abstract In 2015, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals, which include fostering gender equality and women's empowerment ending hunger malnutrition. To monitor progress evaluate programmes that aim to achieve these goals, survey instruments are needed can accurately assess related indicators. The project‐level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro‐WEAI) is being developed address need for an instrument sensitive changes over duration of intervention. pro‐WEAI...
Abstract Background Edutainment aims to spread educational messages in an entertaining way, and often reaches large audiences. While studies increasingly report the impacts of edutainment interventions, there is limited context-specific evidence on underlying processes barriers effective delivery, especially rural areas. This article presents results from a process evaluation community-based intervention designed improve knowledge, attitudes, practices gender-based violence (GBV), sexual...
Abstract Agricultural development projects increasingly aim to improve health and nutrition outcomes, often by engaging women. Although evidence shows such can women's children's empower women, little is known about their impacts on health‐ nutrition‐related agency the extent which emerge through empowerment, largely due a lack of instruments that measure dimensions are directly relevant outcomes. We developed an optional, complementary module for project‐level empowerment in agriculture...
Abstract Objective The present study examines whether rural-to-urban migrant youth consume a greater diversity of high-sugar beverages and fried snacks (HSBFS) compared with their peers who remain in rural areas. It also tests the association between migration HSBFS is moderated by youth’s social engagement peers. Design Participants were recruited August September 2011 following completion primary school (6th grade) shortly before many migrate to urban re-interviewed six months later. was...
Global health and development interventions often are predicated on the reallocation of women's time for achievement program objectives; yet research programs have paid limited attention to preferences agency over their use. This study aims develop validate an instrument measure time-use agency. It follows a sequenced approach involving qualitative quantitative research, with exploratory confirmatory factor analyses assessment concurrent validity. The authors conducted surveys women men...