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Hazel Malapit (she/her)

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Senior Research Coordinator and Gender Task Force Chair @IFPRI | All opinions my own.

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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · May 9

🆕 #Blog: Applying the Women’s Empowerment Metric in National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) to build gender equity

🖋️ By Emily Myers, Jessica Heckert, Hazel Malapit, Agnes Quisumbing, Flor Paz, Chiara Brunelli, and Chiara Gnetti.

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Applying the Women's Empowerment Metric in National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) to build gender equity

A tool to collect key data sometimes missing from household surveys.

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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · Mar 11

IFPRI experts @agnesq.bsky.social, @jkyle.bsky.social, @kkosec.bsky.social, and Catherine Ragasa will be speaking at the UN Women 69th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York:

📅 March 13, 2025

📍 Session: "From Farm to Table: Women at the Agriculture-Nutrition Nexus"

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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · Mar 6

A new tool based on IFPRI’s Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)—developed by IFPRI and @ifad.org's Research and Impact Assessment Division (RIA)—provides a streamlined way to track and evaluate impacts on women’s empowerment in development projects.

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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · Mar 5

Understanding and measuring women's empowerment is crucial for effective development interventions. A recent comparative analysis evaluates various metrics to ensure accurate assessments and impactful programs.

🧪🔗#OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2025 @cgiar.org

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Hazel Malapit (she/her) @hmalapit.bsky.social · Feb 13

#ICYMI: Special Issue of Feminist Economics on Conflict, Disasters and Violence Against Women

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Feminist Economics

A Special Issue on Conflicts, Disasters, and Violence Against Women. Volume 30, Issue 4 of Feminist Economics

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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · Feb 11

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

Watch our new video to learn about the work of
@kalraghunathan.bsky.social, an IFPRI Research Fellow based in New Delhi, India, and hear her advice for the next generation of young researchers:

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Faces of IFPRI: Kalyani Raghunathan

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Jessica Gephart @jagephart.bsky.social · Jan 14

Interactions between different areas of food systems mean change in one area can directly or indirectly affect another. The Countdown’s 2024 report shows that governance and resilience are powerful leverage points that could trigger positive cascading effects across many food system indicators.

Image of crops in circle on right with text to left: "Interactions between different areas of food systems mean change in one area can directly or indirectly affect another. The Countdown’s 2024 report shows that governance and resilience are powerful leverage points that could trigger positive cascading effects across many food system indicators."

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Hazel Malapit (she/her) @hmalapit.bsky.social · Jan 7

Some good news to start 2025! You can now calculate ALL versions of the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) on #Stata using the #weai program: doi.org/10.1177/1536...

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Calculating the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) using Stata - Malick Dione, Greg Seymour, Nathaniel Ferguson, Hazel Malapit, 2024

The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a standardized, survey-based tool that has been widely used to track gender equality and measure empowerm...

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