Maria Hernandez de Benito presented innovative measurement tools from the MAGNET initiative at the International Behavioral Public Policy Conference (IBPPC) on June 24, 2024. The session, titled "Measuring Social and Gender Norms for Better Policy Design," also featured contributions from Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Dana Qarout, and Maurizio Bussolo. Agency and social norms are pivotal […]
MAGNET researchers present results from new time-use agency tool
Caren Grown, Aletheia Donald, and Greg Seymour each contributed to the virtual seminar Beyond time poverty: measuring women’s and men’s time-use agency in Malawi on May 22, 2024 This seminar focused on results from the testing of the MAGNET time-use agency survey module in Malawi, which was implemented alongside traditional time-use data collection. Greg Seymour […]
MAGNET researchers present at Driving Change: Leveraging Personal Agency Approaches for Development
Aletheia Donald, Cheryl Doss, Marya Hillesland, Hazel Malapit, and Heather Moylan presented findings from the testing of several MAGNET tools at the Driving Change: Leveraging Personal Agency Approaches for Development convening at Johns Hopkins University on May 1, 2024. The two-day convening, which included Naila Kabeer and Kaushik Basu in its list of speakers, focused […]
Measuring agency: what we know and where we go from here
Good gender data is essential for tracking our progress in promoting gender equality. But how do we collect this data in a reliable way?
MAGNET is launching household surveys
The MAGNET initiative is launching household surveys in India and Uganda to test new tools for measuring agency developed by the initiative over past two years. In India, the survey will include interviews with approximately 1,700 men and women respondents from rural and urban households within the Bengaluru, Mysore, and Udupi districts of Karnataka. In […]
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