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NAARI digitizes the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index for Market Inclusion and recalibrates it for India. Run the survey across nine indicators and receive an indicator-level profile the moment the assessment closes.
2,112
women assessed
8
states covered
9
empowerment indicators
3
languages built in
How it works
A digitized empowerment assessment for women in FPOs, SHGs and producer collectives. It shows exactly where a woman is empowered and where the gaps are, indicator by indicator.
Select the respondent, project and preferred language.
Use revised modules designed for real field conditions.
Check every answer against India-calibrated cutoffs.
See nine indicators grouped across four domains.
View results immediately without batch processing.
Hindi, English and Marathi are built in, with no external translation layer needed.
Data capture, processing and dashboard visualization are digitized end to end.
Designed to adapt to the program platforms and data systems teams already use.
What happens the instant she answers
Entered digitally in her preferred language.
Matched to its India-calibrated adequacy threshold.
Domain and overall scores recalculate automatically.
Live results appear with no batch processing.
Methodology
Built on IFPRI's pro-WEAI+MI and original pro-WEAI, then recalibrated at three levels: modules, questions and cutoffs.
Input in livelihood decisions
Real input into livelihood decisions.
Autonomy in income use
Independently decides how her income is used.
Self-efficacy
Confidence in her ability to achieve goals.
Ownership of land & assets
Sole or joint ownership of land or assets.
Access to financial services
Self-directed borrowing and spending.
Control over use of income
Input into income use across her work.
Work balance
Works below a defined time-poverty threshold.
Visiting important locations
Self-directed visits to markets and meetings.
Group membership
Active participation in an FPO or SHG, beyond membership on paper.
Plus: four non-scored identification and profile modules capture respondent context alongside the nine scored indicators.
Scoring mechanism
Each indicator is marked adequate or not adequate against its own India-calibrated cutoff.
Adequate indicators are counted into domain scores and then into one overall score.
The output remains a profile—not only a number—so teams can see exactly where each gap sits.
Easy-to-read classification
Adequate across enough weighted indicators to be classified as empowered.
Falls short on enough indicators to signal a meaningful gap—and shows programs exactly where.
A woman is classified as empowered when she is adequate across most weighted indicators—not only one or two strong areas.
What the score actually means
Two women can land on the same score for entirely different reasons. NAARI's indicator-level profile is designed to tell those needs apart.
Illustrative profiles are composites based on patterns across the pilot data, not individual respondents.
34 · Bihar · FPO member
Sunita speaks up in every FPO meeting and decides how her own income is used. But she owns no land and cannot borrow without family approval.
What she needs next
Asset ownership and independent credit access—not another leadership session.
41 · Rajasthan · SHG lead
Meena co-owns her land and leads her SHG. Between fieldwork and household responsibilities, she has little time of her own and rarely travels independently.
What she needs next
Time-relief and mobility support—her financial footing is already solid.
27 · Uttarakhand · FPO member
Radha manages her own money and moves freely. But she doubts her ability to influence decisions and rarely speaks up in meetings.
What she needs next
Confidence-building and leadership exposure—not a financial-literacy program.
See your own snapshot
A fast, indicative read across the same four domains used by the full NAARI assessment.
Voice & Agency
Whether your input actually shapes what happens—not only whether you are asked.
Share of respondents scored "adequate" on each indicator in Round 1 (n = 1,567). Empowerment is strongest in decision-making and confidence, and weakest in finance and asset ownership.
Women-only producer enterprises score higher than mixed-gender FPOs on most indicators.
SHG members show higher empowerment than non-SHG members on almost every indicator.
Land ownership is linked with higher scores across most other indicators too.
Social category influences group membership and work-balance patterns.
Built with women, tested on the ground
1,567
Round 1 respondents across five states
545
Round 2 respondents across five states
1,060
SHG members surveyed in Round 1
2
assessment rounds completed to date
Fielded across Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Telangana, Bihar and Uttarakhand.
Supported by the Gates Foundation.
Built to help organizations measure empowerment systematically—not only count participation.
Shaped with guidance from
The revised tool was shaped through conversations with researchers and practitioners across five organizations.
IFPRI
Gates Foundation
Pradan
Reliance Foundation
IIM Ahmedabad
Built for FPOs, SHGs, funders and implementation partners.
