Malick Dione; Elena M. Martinez; Audrey Pereira; Chloe van Biljon, Ana Vaz; Marlène Elias; Annet Mulema; Ara Go; Federica Argento; Akhter Ahmed; Anika Hannan; Masuma Younus; Alan de Brauw; Amita Dey; Berber Kramer; Mike Murphy; Benjamin Crookston, Megan Gash; Bobbi Gray; Marwan Benali; Pepijn Schreinemachers; Caroline Sobgui; Sarah Janzen, Neena Joshi; Nicholas Magnan; Rajendra Pradhan; Sudhindra Sharma; Sophie Theis; Marc Bellemare; Bart Casier; Susan James; Brooke Krause; Mathias Lardinois; Aine McCarthy; Sabine Gabrysch; Sheela Sinharoy; Jillian Waid; Amanda Wendt; Josué Awonon; Rasmane Ganaba; Aulo Gelli, Elena Martinez; Abdoulaye Pedehombga; Armande Sanou; Sita Zougouri; Silvia Alonso; Alessandra Galiè; Tasokwa Kakota; Jef Leroy; Giordano Palloni; Elizabeth Bryan; Dawit Mekonnen; Mamun Miah; Neha Kumar; Saiqa Siraj; Mihret Alemu; Brenda Boonabaana; Ana Paula de la Ocampo; Susan Kaaria; Marya Hillesland; Erdgin Mane; Vanya Slavchevska; Avijit Choudhury; Madhu Khetan; Neha Kumar; Kalyani Raghunathan, Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Malapit, Hazel J.; Seymour, Greg; Heckert, Jessica; Doss, Cheryl; Johnson, Nancy; Rubin, Deborah; Thai, Giang; Ramani, Gayathri V.; Myers, Emily; GAAP2 for pro-WEAI Study Team, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5429-1857 Quisumbing, Agnes; http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4782-3074 Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7394-8797 Malapit, Hazel; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2213-0450 Seymour, Greg; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3022-8298 Heckert, Jessica; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-9505 Thai, Giang; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8936-1421 Ramani, Gayathri; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3599-5856 Myers, Emily Camille, Malick Dione; Elena M. Martinez; Audrey Pereira; Chloe van Biljon, Ana Vaz; Marlène Elias; Annet Mulema; Ara Go; Federica Argento; Akhter Ahmed; Anika Hannan; Masuma Younus; Alan de Brauw; Amita Dey; Berber Kramer; Mike Murphy; Benjamin Crookston, Megan Gash; Bobbi Gray; Marwan Benali; Pepijn Schreinemachers; Caroline Sobgui; Sarah Janzen, Neena Joshi; Nicholas Magnan; Rajendra Pradhan; Sudhindra Sharma; Sophie Theis; Marc Bellemare; Bart Casier; Susan James; Brooke Krause; Mathias Lardinois; Aine McCarthy; Sabine Gabrysch; Sheela Sinharoy; Jillian Waid; Amanda Wendt; Josué Awonon; Rasmane Ganaba; Aulo Gelli, Elena Martinez; Abdoulaye Pedehombga; Armande Sanou; Sita Zougouri; Silvia Alonso; Alessandra Galiè; Tasokwa Kakota; Jef Leroy; Giordano Palloni; Elizabeth Bryan; Dawit Mekonnen; Mamun Miah; Neha Kumar; Saiqa Siraj; Mihret Alemu; Brenda Boonabaana; Ana Paula de la Ocampo; Susan Kaaria; Marya Hillesland; Erdgin Mane; Vanya Slavchevska; Avijit Choudhury; Madhu Khetan; Neha Kumar; Kalyani Raghunathan, Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Malapit, Hazel J.; Seymour, Greg; Heckert, Jessica; Doss, Cheryl; Johnson, Nancy; Rubin, Deborah; Thai, Giang; Ramani, Gayathri V.; Myers, Emily; GAAP2 for pro-WEAI Study Team, and http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5429-1857 Quisumbing, Agnes; http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4782-3074 Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7394-8797 Malapit, Hazel; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2213-0450 Seymour, Greg; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3022-8298 Heckert, Jessica; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2269-9505 Thai, Giang; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8936-1421 Ramani, Gayathri; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3599-5856 Myers, Emily Camille
Non-PR, IFPRI1; CRP2; CRP4; GAAP; Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index; DCA; G Cross-cutting gender theme; Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL); PRSSP, PHND; EPTD; PIM; A4NH, CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), Agricultural development projects increasingly include women’s empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but efforts to evaluate their impact have been stymied by the lack of comparable measures. Moreover, the context-specificity of empowerment implies that a quantitative measure alone will be inadequate to capture the nuances of the empowerment process. The Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2), a portfolio of 13 agricultural development projects in nine countries in South Asia and Africa, developed the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) and qualitative protocols for impact evaluations. Pro-WEAI covers three major types of agencies: instrumental, intrinsic, and collective. This paper synthesizes the results of 11 mixed-methods evaluations to assess these projects’ empowerment impacts. The projects implemented the pro-WEAI and its associated qualitative protocols in their impact evaluations. Our synthesis finds mixed, and mostly null impacts on aggregate indicators of women’s empowerment, with positive impacts more likely in the South Asian, rather than African, cases. There were more significant impacts on instrumental agency indicators and collective agency indicators, reflecting the group-based approaches used. We found few significant impacts on intrinsic agency indicators, except for those projects that intentionally addressed gender norms. Quantitative analysis does not show an association between the types of strategies that projects implemented and their impacts, except for capacity building strategies. This finding reveals the limitations of quantitative analysis, given the small number of projects involved. The qualitative studies provide more nuance and insight: some base level of empowerment and forms of agency may be necessary for women to participate in project activities, to benefit or further increase their empowerment. Our results highlight the need for projects to focus specifically on