The role of collaboratives in collecting data on women’s agency
An initiative launched by the World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) and Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) teams, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the International Rescue Committee (IRC), and researchers at Oxford University, the Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) initiative aims to broaden and deepen the measurement of women’s agency and to promote the adoption of these measures at scale. The survey tools developed as part of MAGNET focus on three dimensions of women’s agency that have a high potential for catalyzing progress on women’s economic empowerment, but for which the body of existing measurement methods is weak or under-tested: women’s control over assets, goal setting and decision making, and sense of control and efficacy.