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| Gender-Based Violence Survey× | Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index× | |
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| Field | Gender Studies | Gender Studies |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 2005 | 2013 |
| Originator≠ | WHO (García-Moreno, Jansen, Ellsberg, Heise & Watts) and the DHS Program | Sabina Alkire, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Amber Peterman, Agnes Quisumbing, Greg Seymour & Ana Vaz (IFPRI, OPHI, USAID Feed the Future) |
| Type≠ | Population-based prevalence survey | Composite empowerment index |
| Seminal source≠ | García-Moreno, C., Jansen, H. A. F. M., Ellsberg, M., Heise, L., & Watts, C. H. (2006). Prevalence of intimate partner violence: Findings from the WHO multi-country study on women's health and domestic violence. The Lancet, 368(9543), 1260–1269. DOI ↗ | Alkire, S., Meinzen-Dick, R., Peterman, A., Quisumbing, A., Seymour, G., & Vaz, A. (2013). The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index. World Development, 52, 71–91. DOI ↗ |
| Aliases | GBV Survey, Violence Against Women Survey, VAW Prevalence Survey | WEAI, Women's Empowerment Index, pro-WEAI |
| Related≠ | 3 | 4 |
| Summary≠ | Gender-based violence (GBV) and violence-against-women prevalence surveys are standardized, population-based instruments designed to estimate how many people — overwhelmingly women — experience physical, sexual, and emotional violence by intimate partners and others. The dominant designs are the WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence and the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) domestic-violence module. They measure violence through behaviorally specific acts rather than the word 'violence', and they are conducted under strict ethical and safety protocols that govern who is interviewed, how, and where. | The Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a survey-based composite measure developed in 2013 by IFPRI, the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, and USAID's Feed the Future initiative to capture women's empowerment, agency, and inclusion in the agricultural sector. It uses the Alkire-Foster dual-cutoff counting method to aggregate five domains of empowerment (the 5DE) and adds a Gender Parity Index that compares each woman to the primary man in her own household. A widely used project-level adaptation, pro-WEAI, was released in 2019 for use in evaluating development projects. |
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