The 5-year Feed the Future AWE program was implemented by EnCompass LLC and its subcontractors to enhance women’s empowerment and gender equality in agricultural systems and programming. AWE provided targeted technical assistance to USAID missions, implementing partners, the Bureau for Food Security, and other USAID operating units to increase women’s participation, productivity, profit, and benefit in agricultural systems.

MSA led the discovery of good practices, gender norms influence guidance, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning. This included literature review, mixed methods research, applied research (with a focus on: beyond-production enterprise, women’s engagement in market systems, private sector development, women’s participation in decision making), process evaluation and outcome and impact assessments.