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TH3.2: Women's Empowerment in Migration Index: Conceptual Framework and Early Results from Bangladesh

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Title TH3.2: Women's Empowerment in Migration Index: Conceptual Framework and Early Results from Bangladesh
 
Creator Alvi, Muzna
 
Subject gender
agriculture
 
Description In this presentation we describe a conceptual framework, and key elements of a Women's Empowerment in Migration Index (WEMI) that aims to measure the multiple dimensions of agency, resources and achievements of female migrants. We build on CGIAR's large body of work in developing women's empowerment metrics. The WEMI tries to unpack empowerment along the entire migration pathway looking at women's decision making about migration and work, control over assets and income, attitude towards employer violence, access to social networks, access to training and various aspects of self-efficacy and mental health as a migrant. We supplement this framework with data from a pilot survey with over 1000 returnee migrants in Bangladesh, in districts with high international out-migration of women to West Asian countries. The weighted average of the 3DE score for women in our sample is 0.60, out-of a possible maximum of 1. Of the 1018 returnee migrants surveyed, only 14 percent are found to be empowered using a cut-off score of 0.75. Of those women who were disempowered, mean adequacy score is 0.53, suggesting that they achieve adequacy in only 53 percent of the indicators. We believe that WEMI will be integral to monitoring progress towards SDG 8.7 on eradicating forced labor, modern slavery, and human trafficking.
 
Date 2022-10
2022-11-23T06:52:01Z
2022-11-23T06:52:01Z
 
Type Presentation
 
Identifier Alvi, Muzna. 2022. Women's Empowerment in Migration Index: Conceptual Framework and Early Results from Bangladesh. Presented a the CGIAR GENDER Science Exchange, Nairobi, 12-14 October 2022. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/125587
 
Language en
 
Rights Other
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute