New Resource: Increasing Women's Roles in Agricultural Decision-Making
This evidence scan is intended to support USAID Missions and implementing partners to enhance women’s decision-making power in their agriculture programming.
Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) Program
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Contract Start Year
2019
Contract End Year
2023
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Aslihan Kes
Chief of Party
Samantha Croasdaile
Prime Partner
Other Partners
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Check out our latest blog posts to find how you can help increase women's empowerment in agriculture. Our posts cover best practices, emerging learning, and practical examples of programmatic ways to address GBV, increase women's use of digital finance, understand women's decision-making, and more.
Q&A: Approaches to Understanding Women’s Decision-Making Power in Agriculture
There are multiple approaches to studying, understanding, and increasing women’s decision-making power in agriculture.
How to Engage Agricultural Organizations in Increasing Women’s Decision-Making Power
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Measuring Women’s Decision-Making Power in Agriculture
ACDI/VOCA studies and measures women’s decision-making power across various elements of agriculture and markets systems...
What We Do
The Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) Program enhances women’s empowerment and gender equality in agricultural systems and programs by providing technical assistance to Missions, implementing partners, the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, and USAID offices to increase women’s participation, productivity, profit, and benefit in agricultural systems. Our approach values co-design, participation, quality, and actionable leave-behinds.
AWE provides services to Missions and operating units in analysis and application; monitoring, learning, and evaluation; capacity-building; and implementation support. Learn more here.
Our Team
Samantha Croasdaile
Sr. Gender and Agriculture Specialist
Katie Cheney
AWE Call Order Team Lead | Gender Integration Specialist II
Elizabeth Hohenberger
Food Security and Agriculture Specialist
Jamie Holbrook
Knowledge Management Coordinator
Jenn Williamson
Vice President, Gender and Social Inclusion
Meghan Bolden
