Introducing the new Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)

IFPRI Podcast

POLICY SEMINAR Introducing the new Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) FEB 22, 2024 - 9:00 TO 10:30AM EST The new Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) https://weai.ifpri.info/wemns/ is a streamlined tool for measuring women’s empowerment, intended for use in large-scale, multitopic surveys conducted by national statistical systems. WEMNS is designed to measure empowerment in households with all types of livelihoods, in both urban and rural areas, complementing the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) https://weai.ifpri.info/, which focuses on agricultural households. WEMNS was developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Emory University, Oxford University, and the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study Unit in collaboration with country partners and the 50x2030 Initiative, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development. This event will present the WEMNS metric, review the development of the tool, and discuss its use to advance women’s empowerment. A panel of stakeholders from government and national statistical offices and from multilateral organizations will discuss the potential of WEMNS for promoting and monitoring women’s empowerment as part of national statistical surveys. Welcome Remarks Johan Swinnen, Managing Director, Systems Transformation, CGIAR; Director General, IFPRI WEMNS: The Next Stage of Developing Empowerment Metrics Agnes Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow, Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, IFPRI Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, Natural Resources and Resilience Unit, IFPRI Intro to WEMNS Jessica Heckert, Research Fellow, Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, IFPRI Greg Seymour, Research Fellow, Natural Resources and Resilience Unit, IFPRI Maximizing the Potential of WEMNS: Panel Discussion Shelton Kanyanda, Director of Agriculture and Economic Statistics, National Statistical Office, Malawi Regina Valiente, Sectorialista recursos naturales, tierra y vivienda, Secretaría Presidencial de la Mujer (SEPREM) Heather Moylan, Senior Economist, Development Data Group, Development Economics, World Bank Chiara Brunelli, Statistician, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Closing Remarks Chiara Kovarik, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Farzana Ramzan, Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Advisor, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (invited) Moderator Hazel Malapit, Senior Research Coordinator, Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, IFPRI More about this Event: https://www.ifpri.org/event/introducing-new-womens-empowerment-metric-national-statistical-systems-wemns Subscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription