Under The Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP) and GAAP2 project, led by IFPRI, IFPRI staff conducted several project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) in Ethiopia from 2018-2020.
The details of these trainings are provided below:
- Elena Martinez, Jessica Heckert, and Hazel Malapit gave presentations about workshops about the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) at the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research Annual Scientific Conference and Capacity Development Workshop in Addis Ababa in September 2018. This included (1) Oral presentation about the pro-WEAI health and nutrition modules (Jessica Heckert);(2) Oral presentation about the development of pro-WEAI (Elena Martinez);(3) Oral presentation about the results of the pilot of the WEAI for value chains in the Philippines (Hazel Malapit);(4) Workshop about pro-WEAI, including quantitative tools, qualitative tools, the health and nutrition modules, take-home exercises, and additional resources. The workshop had 6 males and 49 females.
- Agnes Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Jessica Heckert, Greg Seymour, Emily Myers, Audrey Pereira, and Chloe van Biljon conducted three pro-WEAI workshops in December 2020 for IFPRI Ethiopia staff, ILRI staff, and GAAP2 implementors and partners, respectively.