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Roadmap for Digital Technology to Foster India’s MSME Ecosystem—Opportunities and Challenges

Sharon Buteau

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Digital technology can significantly enable India’s MSME segment, provided the emerging infrastructure has joint buy-in from the government, solution providers and importantly users. The digital landscape catering to micro and small entrepreneurs has drastically changed in recent years. The challenges … Read More

Country Case Studies—Adoption of Clean Cooking Solutions

LEAD at Krea University

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Governments play a key role in fostering an enabling environment for the growth of the cookstove industry. This infographic commissioned by FMO and conducted by LEAD at Krea University, highlights adoption rates of clean cooking solutions, their policy environment and … Read More

Impact and Determinants of Clean Cookstoves Businesses

LEAD at Krea University

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This infographic commissioned by FMO and conducted by LEAD at Krea University summarises findings from the report of literature on clean cooking solutions, captures the pathways to change and the diverse impacts of adopting efficient cookstoves on health, economic, and … Read More

Clean Cookstoves: Impact and Determinants of Adoption and Market Success

LEAD at Krea University

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Three billion people across the world rely on solid fuels for their daily cooking needs. The negative effects of traditional cooking methods on health, environmental, and socio-economic conditions, especially of women, have been well-documented, and clean cookstoves provide a promising … Read More

Building a Solutions Toolbox for Women’s Collectives Enterprises

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LEAD joins 3ie to host a curated track on strengthening women’s collective enterprises, moderated by Mridulya Narasimhan from LEAD at Krea University, for Livelihoods India Summit 2021. … Read More

Digital Financial Services and Data Protection: Balancing Innovation with Safeguards

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LEAD hosts a panel discussion, moderated by Executive Director Sharon Buteau, on digital financial services and data protection, for Inclusive Finance India (IFI) Summit 2021. … Read More

Landscaping the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Adolescents

Diya Ahuja, Twinkle Juneja and Sapna Nair

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Seeta* is a teenager in rural Uttar Pradesh. Harassment by boys from the village had become an ordinary spectacle that relentlessly continued every day as she traced her steps to school. Despite her fears, a wary Seeta chose to not confide … Read More

COVID-19 Vaccinations: A Double Whammy for Rural Women in India

Bhavya Shrivastava, Komal Jain, Sabina Yasmin

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As the second wave of COVID-19 hit India and countries across the world, severe oxygen shortages, overloaded hospital beds, and acute shortage of critical medicines resulted in a severe public health crisis. The economic and social fallouts of the pandemic have also affected … Read More

Making Financial Products and Services Work for Migrants

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Nov 2 | Introducing our second panel for The Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI) at Accion’s #FinclusionWeek. Varun Aggarwal,
Rahul Ranjan Sinha &
Rupal Kulkarni along with Fabrizio Valenti will deep-dive into actionable solutions that emerge while improving the financial health of migrants. … Read More

Improving Last-Mile Delivery of Financial Services and Welfare Programs

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Join us at 4.30 pm IST as we bring together sector experts for The Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI) at Accion’s #FinclusionWeek for an important discussion on last-mile financial services. Features Tanushree Bhan, Ignacio Mas,
Sonja Kelly, Anjini Kochar &
Anand Raman.
. … Read More