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NAARI digitizes the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index for Market Inclusion (pro-WEAI+MI), the global standard for measuring women's empowerment in agriculture, and recalibrates it for India. Run the survey across 9 empowerment indicators and get a scored, indicator-level profile the moment the assessment closes.
A digitized empowerment assessment for women in FPOs, SHGs and producer collectives. It scores Voice & Agency, Assets & Finance, Time & Mobility, and Collective Strength — indicator by indicator, so programs see exactly where a woman is empowered and where the gaps are. Every objective behind it was set before a single question was written: build an India-specific, future-ready application; cut the time it takes to deploy at scale; and make it adaptable enough to plug into the platforms programs already use.
Respondent, project & language selected
Revised modules, field-ready
Checked against India cutoffs
9 indicators, 4 domains
Real-time, shareable
Available in 22 Indian Gazetted Languages.
Data entry, processing and dashboard visualization are digitized end-to-end.
Designed to be digitally adaptable, with potential integration into existing program platforms and data systems.
Entered digitally, in her own language
Matched to its India-calibrated adequacy threshold
Her domain and overall score recalculate automatically
Live — no batch processing, no waiting
Built on IFPRI's pro-WEAI+MI (2020) and original pro-WEAI (Malapit et al., 2019), then recalibrated at three levels: modules, questions, and cutoffs.
Each indicator is scored "adequate" or "not adequate" against its own India-calibrated cutoff.
Her adequate indicators are then counted up into a domain score, and the domain scores into one overall score — the same simple counting method used across WEAI assessments worldwide.
The output is a profile, not just a number — showing exactly which indicators are adequate and where the gaps sit, using the domain breakdown above.
Adequate across enough weighted indicators to be classified as empowered.
Falls short on enough indicators to signal a meaningful empowerment gap — and shows programs exactly where.
A woman is classified as empowered when she's adequate across most of the weighted indicators — not just one or two strong areas.
A single empowerment score can hide as much as it reveals. Two women can land on the same number for entirely different reasons — one needs access to credit, another needs time back in her day. NAARI's indicator-level profile is built to tell them apart.
Illustrative profiles below are composites built from patterns across the pilot data — not individual respondents.
Sunita speaks up in every FPO meeting and decides how her own income is used. But she owns no land, and can't borrow without her husband's sign-off.
Meena co-owns her land and leads her SHG. But between fieldwork and the household, she has no time of her own and rarely travels unsupervised.
Radha manages her own money and moves freely. But she doubts her ability to influence decisions, and rarely speaks up in meetings.
A fast, indicative read on Voice & Agency, Assets & Finance, Time & Mobility, and Collective Strength — pulled from the full NAARI assessment.
Responses are saved for administrator review.
Share of respondents scored "adequate" on each indicator, Round 1 (n = 1,567). Empowerment is strongest in decision-making and confidence — and weakest in access to finance and asset ownership.
Fielded across Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Telangana, Bihar and Uttarakhand.
Supported by the Gates Foundation.
Built a goal to help every organization in the women's empowerment and agriculture ecosystem measure empowerment systematically and not just count participation.
The revised tool was shaped through direct conversations with researchers and practitioners.
Free for FPOs, SHGs, funders and implementation partners to assess.
