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
Publications
Digital Solutions to Unlock the Potential of SHGs and Their Federations
This infographic captures pathways of impact for a project with the Chhattisgarhâs 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 womenâs social … Read More
Women-led Digital Financial Inclusion and Entrepreneurship
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
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 Womenâs Economic Opportunities: Evidence from a Cluster-Randomised Intervention in India
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 womenâs economic outcomes two years later. The sample included 2858 mothers with … Read More
Markers of Trust: Recreating Digital Ecosystems for Women in Low-income Clusters
This learning note presents insights on the key aspects for designing a more inclusive and enabling digital ecosystem for women from low-income households, based on immersive qualitative research. The study focused on four different segments of female micro-entrepreneurs and self-employed … Read More
Digitizing Micro-merchant Ecosystems â Supply Chains
This report presents insights from a series of experiments that explore the potential of digitizing payments within dairy, pharma and FMCG supply chains. The experiments were conducted as part of Catalyst’s digital payments lab in Jaipur, Rajasthan.Â
Digitizing Micro-merchant Ecosystems â Roving Service Providers
This report presents insights from Catalyst’s survey of roving service providers in Jaipur. It highlights pain points that this segment of micromerchants faced in adopting and using digital payments, and presents tailored strategies to enable digitisation.
Digitizing Micro-merchant Ecosystems â Fixed Stores
This report presents insights from Catalyst’s survey of fixed-store establishments in Jaipur. It highlights pain points that micromerchants face in digitising their financial and business transactions, and presents strategies to enable digitisation grounded based on human-centred design.
Enabling Dialogue Between Regulators and Innovators for Financial Inclusion: Seven Use Cases to Test the Waters
This policy note highlights âhigh impactâ use cases for promoting digital payment adoption in India, and offers templates for stakeholders to test them using a sandbox approach and provides recommendations for creating a more enabling regulatory and policy environment.