Kanika Joshi and Deepanshu Khandelwal share stories from their recent visit to Bikaner, Rajasthan, where they were present as part of LEAD’s collaboration with Rangsutra. Rangsutra is an artisan collective that has empowered and transformed the lives of thousands of artisans across the country. LEAD is supporting Rangsutra in their efforts toward digitizing their workflow and supply chain … Read More
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From Custodians Of Traditional Knowledge To Community Change Agents
Deepanshu Khandelwal, Kanika Joshi
Empowering Women Collectives Through Digital Initiatives in Chhattisgarh: The Current Landscape
LEAD at Krea University
Since 2019, the Initiative of What Works to Advance Women and Girls in the Economy (IWWAGE), an initiative of LEAD at Krea University, has been working with the Government of Chhattisgarh and other partners to map the current digitisation initiatives … Read More
Accelerating Women’s Access to Entitlements through Digital Solutions
LEAD at Krea University
The Initiative for What Works to Advance Women and Girls in the Economy (IWWAGE) is working with the Chhattisgarh Rural Livelihoods Mission and Haqdarshak Empowerment Solutions to train 5,000 self-help group members to become Haqdarshikas. This brief captures provides a … Read More
The Economics and Psychology of Long-term Savings and Pensions
This study explores the behavioural mechanisms that influence decision making processes in long term savings amongst lower income households. … Read More
Digital Solutions to Unlock the Potential of SHGs and Their Federations
LEAD at Krea University
This infographic captures pathways of impact for a project with the Chhattisgarh’s State Rural Livelihoods Mission (Bihan) and key stakeholders in the ecosystem which seeks to better understand and test how digital solutions can enable SHGs to promote women’s social … Read More
Women-led Digital Financial Inclusion and Entrepreneurship
Kanika Joshi, Shruti Sheopurkar
This learning note explores the role of digital and financial inclusion in the economic empowerment of women and female entrepreneurship.
Business Readiness Scorecard for Women
Rigzom Wangchuk, Ria Dutta, M P Karthick, Kanika Joshi
The Business Readiness Scorecard for Women-Handloom and Handicrafts Sector (WBRS-HHS) is a data-driven diagnostic tool, which attempts to identify key constraints and high-performance areas for home-based enterprises in the handloom and handicrafts sectors of India. The WBRS tool was developed … Read More
Access to Affordable Daycare and Women’s Economic Opportunities: Evidence from a Cluster-Randomised Intervention in India
Parul Agarwal, Anoushaka Chandrashekar, Sam Harper
In this paper, the authors used data from a cluster-randomized trial in rural Rajasthan, India to evaluate the impact of providing access to a community-based daycare program on women’s economic outcomes two years later. The sample included 2858 mothers with … Read More
The Economic Returns to Social Interaction: Experimental Evidence from Microfinance
This study examines whether a development intervention that involves constant group interaction and standard microfinance lending, builds capital.
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Implementation of a Women-based Community Driven Development Programme in Tamil Nadu: The Pudhu Vaazhvu Project
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a women-based CDD Programme under the PVP of the Government of Tamil Nadu, its flaws, and possible improvements.
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