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)
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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)
The State of Global Agricultural Insurance
Extreme weather is driving up crop and livestock losses worldwide — and straining the very insurance markets farmers rely on to recover. Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)’s new global report, The State of Global Agricultural Insurance Under a Changing C... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program
The Iran War and Rising Fuel and Fertilizer Prices: Implications for Myanmar’s Rice Value Chain
Myanmar’s agrifood systems have faced a wide range of challenges in recent years, including disruptions in banking and financial services, constraints in accessing foreign exchange, reduced public service delivery, widening conflict and insecurity, inc... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program
Blog: Building a Shared Roadmap to Scale Locally Sourced School Meals in Kenya
by Hazel Odhiambo, Research Officer, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC); Rikki Agudah, Sustainable Agriculture Consultant, Wasafiri; Jaqueline Kungu, , APHRC; Sunny Kim, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI; Naureen Karachiwalla, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI; Julie Ghostlaw, Program Manager, IFPRI Nairobi, Kenya (June 16, 2026)––Participants deliberate solutions to address demand-side barriers to scaling school meals in […] Source: IFPRI Kenya – Kenya Strategy Support Program
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