Credit access and credit assessment of women-led businesses – Handicrafts and Handlooms
Research Team: Mridulya Narasimhan
Project Geography: Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan
Status: Ongoing
This study aims to understand market access and enterprise readiness among women entrepreneurs in the handicrafts and handlooms sector in order to identify impediments to a more enabling entrepreneurial ecosystem for them. The handloom and handicrafts sector continues to be a major source of livelihood in a country that is predominantly agrarian. In addition to […]
Impact of Improved Father Involvement in Early Childhood Care Among Rural Indian Parents: Insights From a Cluster Randomised Trial of a Behaviour Change Intervention
Research Team: Sapna Nair, Rathish Sekar, Arvind Balaji
Project Geography: Districts of Madurai & Dindigul, Tamil Nadu
Status: Completed
Paternal involvement during early childcare has been seen to have a positive impact on child’s social behavioural, cognitive academic and emotional psychological development. As early childhood is a period of greatest potential brain development in humans, it is imperative to focus on improving childcare during this period. Most of the child development programmes hinge on […]
Incentivising self-help groups to influence improved sanitation behaviors: Evidence from rural Tamil Nadu
Research Team: Sujatha Srinivasan, Ajay Tannirkulam, Lipika Kapoor
Project Geography: Tamil Nadu
Status:
Recent evidence suggesting that sanitation practices involving latrine use in rural India are likely more behavior-led and demand-oriented than previously understood. GoI’s SBM-Grameen presents a renewed opportunity to tackle the OD challenge in rural India. This will require a shift in historical policy and programmatic focus from latrine construction to latrine use as a key […]
Review of BMGF/DFID Partnership cities project
Research Team: Sujatha Srinivasan, Revati Dhoble, Prof. Ligy Philip (IIT, Madras)
Project Geography: India, Bangladesh
Status:
In 2013, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the UK Department of International Development (DfID) initiated a partnership based on a shared vision of universal use of sustainable sanitation services. Six cities in South Asia with demonstrated evidence of long term commitment to improving sanitation service outcomes were selected to benefit from this […]
Understanding the Impact of Demonetization on Bank Account Holders from Low Income Households
Principal Investigators: Preethi Rao
Project Geography: Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh
Status: Completed
This study, conducted by IFMR LEAD, attempts to contribute to the ongoing debate of the short and long-term effects of demonetization on low income households who while formally banked, are among the most prone to adverse effects of demonetization policy, owing to their socio-economic, demographic and occupational profiles. The objective of this study is to […]
