Brooks, R.

Korir, L.

Mutua, E.

Waithanji, Elizabeth M.

Mutua, Edna N.

Korir, Luke

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Application of an Adapted Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) in Assessing the Gendered Impact of a Micro-credit Intervention Juhudi Kilimo Trust  Juhudi Kilimo Trust  provides market driven wealth creating financial services that empower small holder farmers and rural enterprises to create sustainable agri-business and improve recipients’ livelihoods  The Trust offers 3 types of loans: livestock, agricultural equipment and farm transport  These assets also double as collateral for the loan taken   Other services include: training farmer groups, asset insurance, linking farmers to extension services Methodology  Quantitative data was collected through an intra-household survey. Primary males and females from male headed households and de jure female heads households were interviewed.   Qualitative  data was obtained through in-depth case study interviews for selected women.  Total households=111; Male headed households (MHH)=95, Female headed households (FHH)=16  Beneficiaries=82HH, Non-beneficiaries=29HH The index shows:  % of empowered men and women  % of disempowered men and women and domains in which they were most empowered or disempowered  Extent of disempowerment by indicator and domain WEAI Is…….. A tool created to track multi-dimensional changes in women’s empowerment levels as a direct or indirect result of development initiatives. The adapted WEAI is  an aggregate index of:   90% 6 Dimensions of Empowerment (Production, Resources,  Income, Leadership, Time and Health*)  10% Gender Parity Index (GPI) Miriam’s** empowerment score *The health dimension is not in the original index **Miriam is not her true name Empowerment scores  An individual was considered empowered if they achieved adequacy in 4/6 dimensions or 67% from weighted indicators  Empowered beneficiaries (taken loans) M-81.2% W-42.9%   Non-beneficiaries (not taken loans)   M-76.9% W-36% Mutua, E1., Brooks, R2., Korir, L1. and Waithanji, E1. The ILRI Livelihoods, Gender, Impacts and Innovations  (LGI²) team is grateful to the Ford Foundation for funding this study 1ILRI, 2Juhudi Kilimo Trust Category With FHH Without FHH Taken loans 0.74 0.70 Not taken loans  0.71 0.71 WEAI scores  Conclusion  Inclusion of FHH in calculating 6DE resulted in higher WEAI scores among those with loans  This finding supports the theory that FHH are more empowered than women from MHH  

Application of an adapted Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) in assessing the gendered impact of a micro-credit intervention

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Application of an adapted Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) in assessing the gendered impact of a micro-credit intervention

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