How the women's empowerment in agriculture index (WEAI) is constructed

Five Domains of Empowerment

The first sub-index—the five domains of empowerment index—assesses women’s empowerment in five general areas, or domains:

1. Decisions about agricultural production ("Production decisionmaking"): Sole or joint decisionmaking power over food or cash-crop farming, livestock, and fisheries, as well as autonomy in agricultural production.

2. Access to and decisionmaking power over productive resources ("Access to productive resources"): Ownership of, access to, and decisionmaking power over productive resources such as land, livestock, agricultural equipment, consumer durables, and credit.

3. Control over use of income: Sole or joint control over income and expenditures.

4. Leadership in the community ("Community leadership"): Membership in economic or social groups and being comfortable speaking in public.

5. Time allocation: Allocation of time to productive and domestic tasks, and satisfaction with the time available for leisure activities (IFPRI, USAID, and OPHI 2012).

Measuring progress toward empowerment - Women's empowerment in agriculture index: baseline report

Source: WUNRN – 18.06.2014