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Bridging the Gap between Women Entrepreneurs and Formal Finance

LEAD hosted a webinar, moderated by Executive Director Sharon Buteau, on strengthening access to formal finance for India’s women entrepreneurs at GAME India’s MSME Finance Week 2020. … Read More

Where Do We Go with Health Policy and Research in a Post-COVID World?

Principal Economist Dr. Shailender Swaminathan discussed the future of health policy at a webinar hosted by The Banyan Academy of Leadership and Mental Health’s. … Read More

Integrating Women-led Rural Enterprises into India’s Entrepreneurship Ecosystem

LEAD concluded their three-part webinar series with the World Bank and the Ministry of Rural Development with the final part exploring strategies to strengthen and secure the position of women entrepreneurship in the larger entrepreneurial ecosystem. … Read More

Path to Recovery and Rehabilitation for Women-led Rural Microenterprises

Experts explored the path to recovery post COVID at the second chapter of a webinar series on supporting women-led rural microenterprises amid COVID-19 and beyond hosted by LEAD in collaboration with the World Bank and the Ministry of Rural Development. … Read More

MSME Week: Stories of Resilience in Adversity

LEAD Research Team

From local kirana stores to home-based food businesses, handicraft clusters to small manufacturers, MSMEs are a cornerstone of India’s growth story. MSMEs create employment at scale and are an integral pillar of their local communities. COVID-19 and the resulting lockdown … Read More

Beyond Health Part II: How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Impacting Financial Services in India

Anoushaka Chandrasekar , Fabrizio Valenti

The Covid-19 pandemic will undoubtedly send long-lasting shockwaves across all sectors and segments of society. To understand what this means for the Financial Inclusion sector, LEAD is taking a journey – virtual, of course – across India, speaking with experts … Read More

Responding To The Challenges Of Manufacturing In A COVID World – A Starting Point

Kanika Joshi, Lavanya Garg

This piece presents interesting insights from a design-thinking hackathon organised by Good Business Lab in collaboration with their industry partner Shahi Exports. The hackathon focused on developing practical guidelines to design an anxiety-free workplace experience for workers in the manufacturing sector. … Read More

Supporting Women-led Microenterprises in COVID and Beyond

LEAD partnered with the World Bank and the Ministry of Rural Development to produce the first part of a three-part webinar series that explores the coping strategies adopted by microenterprises to survive in the COVID-19 pandemic. … Read More

Strengthening Emergency Response to Gender-based Violence Amid COVID

Madhu Mehra, Suneeta Dhar and Poonam Kathuria discussed weak support systems for survivors at the second part of LEAD’s webinar series on addressing gender based violence. … Read More

No Place Like Home? Addressing Rising Domestic Violence During Lockdown

Vishaka Wadhwani, Jagannath R

Lockdown measures and stay at home orders as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in a sharp increase in domestic violence as victims find themselves trapped at home with their abusers. This blog piece looks into policy interventions that can help mitigate the current situation as well as become part of counter-measures to epidemics in the long run.
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