Households, like individuals, rely on a variety of financial products and services: they use cash and credit cards to make payments and they make investments to finance future expenses, buy insurance to manage risks to themselves and their assets, and … Read More
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Calling the Shots: Determinants of Financial Decision-making and Behavior in Domestic Migrant Households in India
Vinith Kurian, Shashank Sreedharan and Fabrizio Valenti
Scoping Meso-Level Insurance in Agriculture in India
Sabina Yasmin, Vinith Kurian
Farmers in India suffer high variability in yields, as a result of uncertainty due to numerous natural and manmade factors. In this context, insurance appears to be a particularly effective means to reduce losses to individuals and communities. It also … Read More
Moving the Clean Cookstoves Sector Forward: Six Principles for Investors
Fabrizio Valenti, Mitzi Perez Padilla
Around 3 billion people across the world rely on solid fuels for their daily cooking needs. The adverse effects of traditional cooking methods on health, socio-economic and environmental conditions, especially among women, are well documented. Clean cookstoves promise a solution to these … Read More
Leveraging Partnerships for Strengthening the Evaluation Ecosystem
Partners: Asia Pacific Evaluation Association and Evaluation Community of India Sharon Buteau, Executive Director, LEAD at Krea University, participates and shares insights in a discussion on leveraging partnerships for effective evaluations, hosted as part of the 3rd APEA Conference & EvalFest … Read More
Workshop on Designing and Evaluating for Complexity: Innovative Approaches
Partners: Asia Pacific Evaluation Association and Evaluation Community of India LEAD at Krea University is curating and anchoring a workshop on designing and evaluating complex interventions at the 3rd APEA Conference & EvalFest 2022, as a part of its larger … Read More
Understanding Barriers & Enablers to Women Entrepreneurship and Opportunity for Collaborative Philanthropy
Sharon Buteau from LEAD participates in AVPN’s South Asia Social Investment Summit 2022 as a part of a closed-door roundtable discussion on catalyzing women entrepreneurship in India. … Read More
Social Welfare Delivery in the Age of Platforms: Comparing Private Models
Bhaskar Pant, Deveshi Chawda
Globally, 1.3 billion people (22 per cent) live in multidimensional poverty – with millions of households in 107 countries living with undernourished members, out-of-school children, and lacking access to electricity and clean cooking fuel. The Covid-19 pandemic is estimated to … Read More
Re-imagining Entrepreneurship Models for Rural Women
Tanushree Bhan
Building on the evidence highlighted in the first part of this two-part blog, the discussion in this second piece is anchored in a normative framework that shapes individual and household-level decision-making processes governing “appropriate” jobs for rural women. These norms do … Read More
COVID-19 and Adaptation to Mental Health Services
Sapna Nair and R Padmavati
COVID-19 caused disruptions in services to those with mental illness in several countries across the globe. While these disruptions have been well-documented, few studies have looked at the service provider perspective. A recent study by LEAD at Krea University and the Schizophrenia … Read More
Innovations for Women’s Empowerment Collectives in Chhattisgarh: Digital Solutions and Institutional Models
LEAD at Krea University, IWWAGE
This infographic offers a snapshot of the different ways in which three innovative digital and assisted approaches being tested by LEAD and IWWAGE in Chhattisgarh (along with the State’s Rural Livelihood Mission Bihan, supported by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), … Read More
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