Partner: Krea University, IWWAGE Gender-based Violence (GBV) has witnessed an exponential rise in the last decade, unmitigated by national and international policies and initiatives. In the last decade, the context for Violence against Women and Girls disproportionately intensified with the … Read More
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State Capacity and Issues of Nano and Micro Entrepreneurs – IPPN Annual Conference
Partner: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), India Public Policy Network (IPPN) State Capacity: What Is It and Why Is It Needed? Reflecting on the recent past, two simultaneous forces are in play pertaining to the capacities of governments – … Read More
SARDI India MSME Tech Policy Fellowship Program – Inception Workshop
Partners: United States Agency for International Development (USAID), DAI USAID through its South Asia Regional Digital Initiative (SARDI) has launched a fellowship program to conduct policy research at the interface of digitalisation and MSMEs in India. Overall, SARDI is managed by DAI. The … Read More
Impact of Access to Finance on Nano Enterprises
Sharon Buteau, Abhishek Gupta, Varun Hariharan
Nano enterprises can be classified as a distinct segment within the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as firms with an annual turnover less than INR 1 crore, characterised by their hyperlocal roots and focus. These are ubiquitous businesses which … Read More
Road to Recovery: Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on Microbusinesses in India
LEAD at Krea University and Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME)
Micro enterprises form an integral part of the fabric of livelihoods in urban areas of India, particularly in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities where income-generating activities are scarce for most low-income households. Hence, unexpected and long-drawn crises such as COVID-19 can … Read More
Six Learnings from Swashakt Program’s Complexity-aware Monitoring
Morchan Karthick
Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation (MLE) approaches for development interventions have been constantly evolving over time. It started as a country-level focus in the 1960s and expanded to individual program-level MLE approaches, methods and standards in the 1990s and newer and … Read More
Metrics from the Ground Up Conference 2022
Partner: Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) How can we improve the metrics that we track? What are the emerging measurement practices? Insights surrounding these key questions will be discussed in the 2022 edition of the conference convened by ANDE. … Read More
Opportunities and Challenges for a Green Economic Recovery in Odisha: Dissemination Workshop
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on supply chains, coupled with the impact of climate disasters on natural resource-based livelihoods, has created a dual struggle for many climate-vulnerable locations in the country including Odisha. Following up on its earlier workshop … Read More
Opportunities and Challenges for a Green Economic Recovery in Odisha
This project aims to create a decentralised action plan for the state of Odisha to facilitate a green economic recovery, through a collaborative process of stakeholder engagement. Background Odisha has been identified as one of the most vulnerable states in … Read More
Connections: How Social Interactions Shape Growth Stories of Women-led Enterprises
Aishwarya Joshi
This blog presents insights from a research study that seeks to understand how social interactions between women entrepreneurs and their business ecosystem intersect with their social and economic backgrounds, and in turn shape their business decisions and outcomes. “Women are … Read More
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