This project maps the challenges for women entrepreneurs in Urban and Peri-Urban India and examines the potential of collaborative philanthropy in mitigating the challenges. Background Entrepreneurship development is an important pathway for enabling women’s participation in the economy and can … Read More
Small, Growing Businesses and Employment
Scaling Up Women’s Enterprises: Incubating and Empowering – Livelihoods India Summit
Partners: ACCESS Development Services and NITI Aayog Low female labour force participation rates (~22%) in India remain an area of concern. Of the women who work for pay, over three-quarters are self-employed. Women-owned enterprises form only 20% of all micro, small, … Read More
Social Protection: The Role of Female Agents in Last Mile Services and Bridging the Gap – Inclusive Finance India Summit
Partners: ACCESS Development Services There are several agent models operational in the country today, leveraging existing frontline workers, female Self-Help Group members, village entrepreneurs, and CSC operators. The delivery gap, however, remains high due to the lower number of female agents … Read More
Nano Enterprise Lending: Insights on Borrower Profiles – Inclusive Finance India Summit
Partners: Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, ACCESS Development Services Nano enterprises have a significant role to play in the growth of the Indian economy, from generating employment to contributing to GDP. LEAD continued its association as a Technical Partner with the … Read More
State Capacity and Issues of Nano and Micro Entrepreneurs – IPPN Annual Conference
Partner: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), India Public Policy Network (IPPN) State Capacity: What Is It and Why Is It Needed? Reflecting on the recent past, two simultaneous forces are in play pertaining to the capacities of governments – … Read More
SARDI India MSME Tech Policy Fellowship Program – Inception Workshop
Partners: United States Agency for International Development (USAID), DAI USAID through its South Asia Regional Digital Initiative (SARDI) has launched a fellowship program to conduct policy research at the interface of digitalisation and MSMEs in India. Overall, SARDI is managed by DAI. The … Read More
Impact of Access to Finance on Nano Enterprises
Sharon Buteau, Abhishek Gupta, Varun Hariharan
Nano enterprises can be classified as a distinct segment within the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as firms with an annual turnover less than INR 1 crore, characterised by their hyperlocal roots and focus. These are ubiquitous businesses which … Read More
Road to Recovery: Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on Microbusinesses in India
LEAD at Krea University and Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME)
Micro enterprises form an integral part of the fabric of livelihoods in urban areas of India, particularly in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities where income-generating activities are scarce for most low-income households. Hence, unexpected and long-drawn crises such as COVID-19 can … Read More
Six Learnings from Swashakt Program’s Complexity-aware Monitoring
Morchan Karthick
Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation (MLE) approaches for development interventions have been constantly evolving over time. It started as a country-level focus in the 1960s and expanded to individual program-level MLE approaches, methods and standards in the 1990s and newer and … Read More
Metrics from the Ground Up Conference 2022
Partner: Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) How can we improve the metrics that we track? What are the emerging measurement practices? Insights surrounding these key questions will be discussed in the 2022 edition of the conference convened by ANDE. … Read More
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