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Improvements to Female Autonomy and Household Decision-Making Power from an Intervention Targeting Improved Food Security: A Gender-Based Analysis of the Rajasthan Nutrition Project

In India, women and children continue to experience food insecurity. The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the Rajasthan Nutrition Project (RNP) led to changes in 1) dietary habits and nutrition, and 2) indicators of gender equality, female autonomy, and empowerment. This study surveyed women belonging to self-help groups who were pregnant or who had young children. Over the course of the intervention, significant improvements were seen in the following indicators: breastfeeding within one hour of birth, exclusively breastfeeding for the first six months, food insecurity of children and mothers, household decision-making, communication, mobility, and domestic violence. These findings suggest that the RNP is a promising intervention for improving nutrition and female autonomy in Rajasthan, India. Additional research is needed to determine if the RNP would be equally as effective in other regions of India, or in populations outside of India.

Evidence Review on Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) and its relationship with Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE)

Map to the Future (M2F): Integrating soil mapping into cocoa farm development plans in Ghana

In collaboration with The Sustainability Innovation Lab at the University of Colorado (SILC), Boulder USA, USDA Agricultural Research Unit, and Touton Ghana, Grameen Foundation conducted a research project to evaluate the integration of site-specific soil data (such as through Grameen’s FarmGrow and SILC’s Land Potential application (LandPKS)) with traditional soil data products (e.g., regional-to-global soil maps) in an effort to provide location-specific soil information that smallholder cocoa farmers can use to improve soil health and overall farm productivity. The research found that the integration of LandPKS site-specific soil data, in combination with soil map data, into FarmGrow and other similar agronomic advisory tools could support smallholder farmers with more comprehensive soil data that would influence decisions regarding activities such as replanting and fertilizer use in addition to the suitability of other crops for the land. Further refinement of which data points are critical for these decisions is needed to ensure the additional data collection requirements are feasible for farmers.

Reducing Incidence of Child Labor and Harmful Conditions of Work in Economic Strengthening Initiatives (RICHES) - Philippines (Tagalog)

Proyecto RICHES para la reducción de la incidencia del trabajo infantil y las condiciones de trabajo inaceptables en las iniciativas de empoderamiento económico

FarmGrow Midline Survey Report

Understanding Gender and Empowerment in Cocoa Farming Communities in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana: Baseline Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment

Building Resilience in Burkina Faso: Understanding women’s empowerment through use of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI)

Mobile Training and Support (MOTS) Service: Umurinzi Campaign Program Post-Test Report

Grameen "Do No Harm" and Safeguarding Framework

This Do No Harm framework is meant to guide project/ product/ service design, implementation, monitoring and project exit with a focus on “doing no harm while doing good” for the women and families Grameen Foundation and its partners serve.