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Empowering women through business development training for couples
Type: Blog
This is a story about Yeasmin Ara and Nurul Islam, a couple from Naogaon, Bangladesh. They shared their experience as a pair attending a business development training session organized by WorldFish in Bangladesh. Following ...
Women’s empowerment and improved nutrition: An assessment of a project in Bangladesh using an adapted version of Pro-WEFI for small-scale fisheries and aquaculture (Pro-WEFI)
Type: Presentation
Ppt presented at the Science Exchange, CGIAR Gender Platform, ILRI campus, Nairobi. The Project Level Women’s Empowerment in Fisheries and Aquaculture Index (ProWEFI) measures the empowerment, agency and inclusion of women ...
Women in nutrition and aquaculture in Bangladesh
Type: Other
WorldFish's initiative to increase women's empowerment through small fish production in Bangladesh's northern provinces of Rangpur and Rajshahi was featured on Colours FM 101.6 radio show Women in Aquaculture and Nutrition.
Qualitative tools for the Women’s Empowerment in Fisheries and Aquaculture Index (WEFI)
Type: Tool
This document describes a set of tools that can be used for qualitative research on women’s
empowerment in fisheries and aquaculture and which complement the quantitative tools for the
calculation of the ‘Women’s Empowerment ...
Women's Empowerment in Fisheries and Aquaculture Index (WEFI): Guidance Notes (Video)
Type: Video
This video provides a good overview of the Women's Empowerment in Fisheries and Aquaculture Index (WEFI) methodology and tools to use to carry out the research. WEFI measures the empowerment, agency and inclusion of women ...
Gender accommodative versus transformative approaches: a comparative assessment within a post-harvest fish loss reduction intervention
Type: Journal Article
Technical and social constraints limit value chain actors from equitably engaging in and benefiting from capture fisheries in low-income settings. Extension and development programs often focus on the former, which reflects ...
WorldFish, IDEA project Bangladesh & Pro-WEFI
Type: Presentation
Presentation from a a training workshop on Project Level Women's Empowerment in Fisheries and Aquaculture Index (Pro-WEFI) tool for validation in increasing income, diversifying diets, and empowering women in Bangladesh ...
Sustainability impacts of ecosystem approaches to small-scale aquaculture in Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
This study explores the sustainability impacts of adopting an ecosystem approach in underutilized homestead ponds (ecoponds) operated by women in Bangladesh. Households with ecoponds have significantly higher fish productivity, ...
Climate-hotspots gender impact assessment in Zambia: Effects of Gender responsive interventions on gender equality, women's empowerment and Climate Adaptation in Zambia
Type: Presentation
The primary objective of this study is to understand how gender-responsive aquaculture
interventions enhance women's resilience in the face of climate change and facilitate women's
empowerment.
Empowering Women Fish Retailers in Egypt (EWFIRE) Project (Arabic)
Type: Brief
The project Empowering Women Fish Retailers (EWFIRE) Project. Funded by the European Commission (EuropeAid), the project supports vulnerable women retailers and processors to develop their businesses in five urban areas ...