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This half-day forum, hosted by the Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) initiative, will share new findings about measuring women’s agency across three dimensions—control over assets, goal-setting and decision-making, and sense of control and efficacy—drawing on a novel set of survey tools developed and tested across 18 countries through the initiative. Partners will discuss what they learned from putting these methods to work in their own operations and research. To close, a panel of funders and data producers will take stock of the past decade of work on agency, what MAGNET’s results imply and where the field is headed next.

Lunch and networking to follow.

Opening Remarks

• Iffath A. Sharif, Director for Social Policy, World Bank Group

Theme 1 – Control Over Assets

• Cheryl Doss, Professor, Economics, Tufts University
• Krista Jacobs, Director of Research, Evaluation, and Learning, Landesa

Theme 2 – Goal-Setting and Decision-Making

• Aletheia Donald, Senior Economist, Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank Group
• Shelton Kanyanda, Commissioner of Statistics, National Statistical Office of Malawi

Theme 3 – Sense of Control and Efficacy

• Hazel Malapit, Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI
• Jona Repishti, Director, Strategy and Data Insights, Digital Green

Closing Panel – Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead

• Megan O’Donnell, Senior Program Officer, Gates Foundation
• Jamie Walsh, Senior Behavioral Scientist, Agency Fund 
• Talip Kilic, Acting Manager and Senior Program Manager, Survey Unit, Development Data Group, World Bank

Closing Remarks

• Claudia Ringler, Director, Agrifood Innovation and Resilience, IFPRI

About MAGNET
The Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) initiative is a collaboration between the World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab (AFRGIL) and Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) teams, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the International Rescue Committee (IRC), and researchers at Makerere University, the Asian Development Bank, The Brookings Institution, Tufts University, CUNEF University, Oxford University, and KIT University. The initiative is funded by the Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (UFGE) in partnership with the Gates Foundation.