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	Harvard Gender Analysis Framework	Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index
Field	Gender Studies	Gender Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1985	2013
Originator	Catherine Overholt, Mary B. Anderson, Kathleen Cloud & James E. Austin (Harvard Institute for International Development, with USAID)	Sabina Alkire, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Amber Peterman, Agnes Quisumbing, Greg Seymour & Ana Vaz (IFPRI, OPHI, USAID Feed the Future)
Type	Applied gender analysis framework	Composite empowerment index
Seminal source	Overholt, C., Anderson, M. B., Cloud, K., & Austin, J. E. (Eds.) (1985). Gender Roles in Development Projects: A Case Book. Kumarian Press, West Hartford, CT. ISBN: 9780931816154	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.
Aliases	Harvard Analytical Framework, Gender Roles Framework, Harvard Framework	WEAI, Women's Empowerment Index, pro-WEAI
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Summary	The Harvard Gender Analysis Framework, also called the Harvard Analytical Framework or Gender Roles Framework, is one of the earliest structured tools for incorporating gender into development planning. Developed in 1985 by researchers at the Harvard Institute for International Development in collaboration with the USAID Women in Development office, it organises gender analysis around three matrices — an Activity Profile of who does what, an Access and Control Profile of resources and benefits, and an analysis of the Influencing Factors that shape these patterns — and applies them across the project cycle to make women's economic contributions visible to planners.	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.