POLICY SEMINARIntroducing the new Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS)FEB 22, 2024 - 9:00 TO 10:30AM ESTThe new Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) https://weai.ifpri.info/wemns/ is a streamlined tool for measuring women’s empowerment, intended for use in large-scale, multitopic surveys conducted by national statistical systems. WEMNS is designed to measure empowerment in households with all types of livelihoods, in both urban and rural areas, complementing the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) https://weai.ifpri.info/, which focuses on agricultural households. WEMNS was developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Emory University, Oxford University, and the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study Unit in collaboration with country partners and the 50x2030 Initiative, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development.This event will present the WEMNS metric, review the development of the tool, and discuss its use to advance women’s empowerment. A panel of stakeholders from government and national statistical offices and from multilateral organizations will discuss the potential of WEMNS for promoting and monitoring women’s empowerment as part of national statistical surveys.Welcome RemarksJohan Swinnen, Managing Director, Systems Transformation, CGIAR; Director General, IFPRIWEMNS: The Next Stage of Developing Empowerment MetricsAgnes Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow, Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, IFPRIRuth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, Natural Resources and Resilience Unit, IFPRIIntro to WEMNSJessica Heckert, Research Fellow, Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, IFPRIGreg Seymour, Research Fellow, Natural Resources and Resilience Unit, IFPRIMaximizing the Potential of WEMNS: Panel DiscussionShelton Kanyanda, Director of Agriculture and Economic Statistics, National Statistical Office, MalawiRegina Valiente, Sectorialista recursos naturales, tierra y vivienda, Secretaría Presidencial de la Mujer (SEPREM)Heather Moylan, Senior Economist, Development Data Group, Development Economics, World BankChiara Brunelli, Statistician, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)Closing RemarksChiara Kovarik, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)Farzana Ramzan, Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Advisor, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (invited)ModeratorHazel Malapit, Senior Research Coordinator, Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, IFPRIMore about this Event: https://www.ifpri.org/event/introducing-new-womens-empowerment-metric-national-statistical-systems-wemnsSubscribe IFPRI Insights newsletter and event announcements at www.ifpri.org/content/newsletter-subscription