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
Blogs
Social Welfare Delivery in the Age of Platforms: Comparing Private Models
Bhaskar Pant, Deveshi Chawda | February 2, 2022
Re-imagining Entrepreneurship Models for Rural Women
Tanushree Bhan | January 17, 2022
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 | January 10, 2022
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
Landscaping the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Adolescents
Diya Ahuja, Twinkle Juneja and Sapna Nair | November 9, 2021
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 | October 28, 2021
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
Navigating the Research-Policy Interface during Crises Situations: What We Have Learned
Diksha Singh | September 21, 2021
As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic gripped India and the world in early March 2021, discussions about vaccination inequities, and reopening schools and public spaces caught our attention once again. Social media, particularly the Twitterverse, was inundated with … Read More
Women’s Collectives and Individual Enterprise: A Livelihoods Model for Rural Women in Central India
Tanushree Bhan | July 7, 2021
This blog presents an example of an existing livelihoods model to undertake a critical evaluation of how entrepreneurship is conceived for rural women in self-help groups (SHGs) in two parts. The purpose of this two-part blog is to show that … Read More
Point of View: LEAD in Conversation with Samik Sundar Das
LEAD at Krea Universiry | June 29, 2021
Introducing our new feature series ‘Point of View’, where we speak with experts from different sectors to unpack some of the complex development challenges that they are working on and learn from their experiences. LEAD has been working in the … Read More
Menstrual Hygiene Day 2021: Shifting Norms and Improving Women’s Access to Safe Alternatives
Sujatha Srinivasan | May 28, 2021
The adoption of the human right to water and sanitation by a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly in July 2010 helped ensure that a human rights perspective is integrated into the design and delivery of water, sanitation and … Read More
LEAD’s New Website is Live – Marking our Complete Transition to a New Visual Identity
Sharon Buteau, Preethi Rao | April 22, 2021
At LEAD, we believe in the power of communicating knowledge effectively to create impact – at every step in our journey, we have endeavoured to bring out the best possible outcomes for all stakeholders involved. As a leading action-oriented research … Read More
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