Social and gender norms and conceptualization of empowerment in Uganda

This is qualitative data collected through sex-separated focus group discussions, indepth individual interviews and key informant interviews in Uganda. We targeted actors-such as farmers and traders involved in the livestock value chain-interviewing women, men, and youth (across different age groups) in smallholder livestock systems. For the KIIs, we spoke with community leaders who are custodians of gender norms, some of whom were not directly involved in livestock activities, including cultural and religious leaders. In total, we conducted eight sex-separated FGDs (four with women, including two for young women and two for adult women, and four with men, including two for young men and two for adult men) and 18 KIIs (equally distributed between men and women). This data can be valuable to social researchers interested in meta-analysis of social studies on how local ideologies influence women's empowerment, especially within Sub-Saharan Africa.