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
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Moving the Clean Cookstoves Sector Forward: Six Principles for Investors
Fabrizio Valenti, Mitzi Perez Padilla
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
Roadmap for Digital Technology to Foster India’s MSME Ecosystem—Opportunities and Challenges
Sharon Buteau
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
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
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