Business Readiness Scorecard for Women
August 2020 - Rigzom Wangchuk, Ria Dutta, M P Karthick, Kanika Joshi, Mridulya Narasimhan
Lead Centre:
Focus Area: MSME & Entrepreneurship
Gauging business readiness of women-led enterprises in the informal sector by assessing their performance is key to enable policy support in terms of identifying best practices, creating market linkages, and targeting skilling initiatives. 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 as a result of data collected from 800 home-based women entrepreneurs in four districts each, in Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. It assesses the readiness of women entrepreneurs on their ability and preparedness to sustain and scale their current business portfolio across economic as well as social, cultural and behavioural parameters.
Access to affordable daycare and women’s economic opportunities: evidence from a cluster-randomised intervention in India
August 2020 - Arijit Nandi, Parul Agarwal, Anoushaka Chandrashekar, Sam Harper
Lead Centre: IFMRLEAD
Focus Area: Financial Inclusion
With declining female labour force participation in India, this impact evaluation explores the influence of day care facilities on a range of social and economic outcomes on women and contributes to evidence in support of child care programmes for women empowerment. This study was conducted in collaboration with Seva Mandir and McGill University with support from International Development Research Cebtre (IDRC).
