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alidation Workshop on CAADP (2026–2035) Domestication and Implementation – Core Element 2: Diagnostics and Analysis

A one-and-a-half-day Validation Workshop on CAADP (2026–2035) Domestication and Implementation – Core Element 2: Diagnostics and Analysis was held on July 20–21, 2026, at the ILRI Campus in Addis Ababa. Organized by the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and AGRA, the workshop convened representatives from government […] Source: IFPRI Ethiopia: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program

MAGNET presents validated agency tools to the UN Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys

MAGNET researchers Cheryl Doss, Heather Moylan and Aletheia Donald presented a set of validated survey tools for measuring women's agency to the UN Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS), convened under the UN Statistics Division, on 19 May 2026. Household surveys typically capture women's agency through sex-disaggregated statistics or a narrow set of decision-making […] Source: The Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET)

Measuring agency in lower-income settings: evidence from 38,000 respondents

New blog from the World Bank MAGNET team: "Psychological constructs related to agency—goal-setting capacity, self-efficacy, locus of control—are linked to economic outcomes and well-being across a growing body of evidence. But the tools we use to measure them were developed and validated in Western, high-income contexts. Using them as-is in lower-income settings risks measuring the […] Source: The Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET)

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