Replication Data for “Assessing Multicountry Programs Through a “Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform” Lens”

This dataset accompanies Quisumbing et al. (2023), Assessing multicountry programs through a “Reach, Benefit, Empower, Transform” lens (Global Food Security, 37, 100685). It contains the final cleaned data and do-files used to reproduce the study’s analyses of the JP RWEE program in Ethiopia, Niger, Nepal, and Kyrgyzstan. The surveys measure women’s empowerment outcomes using pro-WEAI indicators, which apply stricter adequacy cut-offs than A-WEAI and extend beyond agriculture to other livelihood activities. The dataset retains the A-WEAI structure and weights to compute empowerment scores, empowerment status, and intrahousehold inequality measures. Data include two survey rounds in Ethiopia (baseline Dec 2016–Jan 2017; endline Feb–Mar 2019; 750 households, 723 panel cases) and Niger (baseline Feb–Mar 2016; endline Oct–Nov 2020; 580 households at baseline with replacement sampling for attrition), and one round each in Nepal (Jan–Feb 2021; 1,300 households and Kyrgyzstan (Jan–Feb 2021; 1,946 households. Each country sample includes a comparison group constructed using methods tailored to the local context. Because data collection was undertaken by external partners, IFPRI holds only the cleaned datasets and code used for the analyses.