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General information
| Innovation ID | 609 |
| Version ID | 284 |
| Innovation Title | Women’s Empowerment in Fisheries Index (WEFI), a methodological tool for assessing women’s transformative change in fisheries and aquaculture |
| Innovation description | A methods package (tool) for assessing women’s empowerment and transformative change in fisheries and aquaculture. The tool draws from the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, but has adapted it in key ways: i) for fisheries and aquaculture; ii) for use as a before and after measure; iii) to include both qualitative and quantitative measures; iv) to include measures of gender transformative change, i.e., change in local structural gender barriers, in particular gender norms and attitudes. |
| Reporting Staff | Cynthia McDougall (WF) |
| Year (Reporting) | 2020 |
| Reporting status | Approved |
| Innovation Type | Research and Communication Methodologies and Tools |
Stage reached
| Stage of Innovation | Stage 2: successful piloting |
| Year (Stage) | 2020 |
| Stage Description | New knowledge produced about the use of WEFI. WEFI tool refined in partnership with the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), tools will be ready and available in 2021. |
| Has a lead organization | yes |
| Lead Organization | WorldFish |
| Top 5 contributors | Royal Tropical Institute |
Contributions and mapping
| All partners | |
| Main CRP | CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems |
| Flagship project | CCSI-Cross-cutting & Strategic Investments |
| Cluster | CCSI-Cross-cutting & Strategic Investments |
| Other CRPs-Flagships-Clusters |
Scope
| Geographic scope | Global |
| Regions | |
| Countries |
Targeted outcomes
| Main Sub-IDO | Gender-equitable control of productive assets and resources |
| Other Sub-IDO | |
| Other Sub-IDO |
Evidences
| Evidences | Cole, S. M. Kaminski, A. M. McDougall, C. et al. (2020) Gender accommodative versus transformative approaches: a comparative assessment within a post-harvest fish loss reduction intervention, Gender, Technology and Development, 24: 1, 48-65. [https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/4197] Cole, S.M. et al. (2018). Postharvest fish losses and unequal gender relations: drivers of the social-ecological trap in the Barotse Floodplain fishery, Zambia. Ecology and Society, 23(2): 18 [https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/676] Cole, Steven Michael, 2018, "Women’s Empowerment in Fisheries Index", Harvard Dataverse, V1 [https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LFDERG] McDougall, C., 2019. Measuring Gender Transformative Change: Frameworks, Characteristics, Methodologies. Presentation given during the Joint Program on Gender Transformative Approaches to Food Security & Nutrition, Inception Workshop, Rome, May 6-8, 2019 [https://www.slideshare.net/CynthiaMcDougall/measuring-gender-transformative-change-frameworks-characteristics-methodologies] |
Linked Elements
| Milestones |
| Outcome Impact Case |
| Policy |