Weagov Implementation Manual
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WEAGov implementation manual
Author: Kyle, Jordan
language: en
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release Date: 2025-04-21
The Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) is an assessment tool developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and partners to evaluate women’s empowerment across the national policy cycle related to agrifood systems. WEAGov helps national policymakers, civil society actors, and researchers identify specific gaps and opportunities for enhancing women’s voice and agency in the agrifood policy process. It also aids in monitoring progress towards women’s empowerment in agrifood systems governance and related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This implementation manual describes WEAGov’s approach and methodology and provides guidance for its use. Additional support materials are available on the WEAGov project website (https://www.ifpri.org/project/womens-empowerment-agrifood-governance-weagov/), which is regularly updated.
Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) Assessment Framework: Insights from the India Pilot Study
Author: Ragasa, Catherine
language: en
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release Date: 2025-02-21
Women’s equal participation and leadership in political and public life can boost a country’s long-term economic growth, foster social inclusion, and help countries reach the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Beyond these important outcomes, women’s inclusion in public life is a basic human right: Women deserve a role in making decisions, controlling resources, and shaping policies. Despite the importance of women’s voices and their empowerment in policy and decision-making processes, available metrics show that women’s policy and political empowerment remains low. Moreover, these metrics are inadequate in systematically tracking women’s voices and empowerment across different levels of decision-making. IFPRI developed an assessment framework—Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov)—to assess women’s voices and empowerment in national policy processes in agrifood systems. This paper presents results from the pilot testing of WEAGov in India from January to March 2024. In this paper, we present how the WEAGov tool works in the Indian context, analyze trends in the data that we collected during the pilot, and provide an overview of the status of women’s voices and empowerment in the agrifood policy process as of March 2024. The pilot testing in India provides useful lessons on improving the measurement of these outcomes and offers valuable policy insights on critical entry points for increasing women’s voices and empowerment in the national agrifood policy process, design, implementation, and evaluation.
Advancing women's voice and empowerment in the agrifood policy process: Findings and recommendations from the WEAGov India Pilot Study
Author: Ragasa, Catherine
language: en
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release Date: 2025-02-18
Women’s equal participation and leadership in political and public life can boost a country’s long-run economic growth, foster social inclusion, and help countries reach the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Beyond these important outcomes, women’s inclusion in public life is a basic human right: women deserve a role in making decisions, controlling resources, and shaping policies. Yet, globally, only 22 percent of members of parliament and 16 percent of cabinet secretaries are women. Although disproportionately employed in the agrifood system, women lack decision-making power regarding the policies that govern it. And beyond high-level statistics like the share of women in national parliaments, there is a lack of tools for measuring and tracking gender equality in national- and state-level governance (ElDidi et al., 2021; Quisumbing et al., 2023; Ragasa et al., 2022). Yet, achieving meaningful progress on gender equality within governance requires identifying specific gaps and opportunities within a country’s policy process.