Women's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from peste des petits ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana

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dc.creatorOmondi, Immaculate A.
dc.creatorGaliè, Alessandra
dc.creatorTeufel, Nils
dc.creatorLoriba, Agnes
dc.creatorKariuki, Eunice
dc.creatorBaltenweck, Isabelle
dc.date2022-03-12
dc.date2021-12-24T08:53:18Z
dc.date2021-12-24T08:53:18Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T16:50:53Z
dc.descriptionHealthy livestock provide meaningful opportunities to enhance women’s empowerment (WE) in low- and middle-income countries. Animal vaccines are important to keep livestock healthy and productive. However, gender-based restrictions limit women’s access to animal health services, thereby affecting the potential of livestock to enhance their empowerment. While growing empirical evidence reveals that women-controlled livestock (e.g., small ruminants) have important implications for WE and support better household nutrition outcomes, little empirical evidence exists from rigorous analyses of the relationship between WE and animal vaccines for women-controlled livestock species. Our analysis explores the relationship between WE and involvement with PPR vaccination in Ghana. Data collected using the Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index (WELI) tool from 465 women and 92 men farmers (who keep goats) from northern Ghana, and analyzed using PLS-SEM, revealed a significant direct positive association between knowledge about animal health and PPR vaccines and a significant indirect positive association between access to PPR vaccines and empowerment. The empowerment of women goat farmers, as revealed by our model’s results for the relationship between empowerment and vaccine facets, was significantly represented by asset ownership and input into decisions concerning livestock. These study results reveal important considerations in designing effective and equitable livestock vaccine systems.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/117228
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/134941
dc.languageen
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceOmondi, I.A., Galiè, A., Teufel, N., Loriba, A., Kariuki, E. and Baltenweck, I. 2022. Women's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from peste des petits ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana. Animals 12(6): 717
dc.subjectwomen
dc.subjectvaccination
dc.subjectruminants
dc.subjectlivelihoods
dc.titleWomen's empowerment and livestock vaccination: Evidence from peste des petits ruminants vaccination interventions in northern Ghana
dc.typeJournal Article

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