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
Small, Growing Businesses and Employment
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
Opportunities and Challenges for a Green Economic Recovery in Odisha: Dissemination Workshop
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on supply chains, coupled with the impact of climate disasters on natural resource-based livelihoods, has created a dual struggle for many climate-vulnerable locations in the country including Odisha. Following up on its earlier workshop … Read More
Opportunities and Challenges for a Green Economic Recovery in Odisha
This project aims to create a decentralised action plan for the state of Odisha to facilitate a green economic recovery, through a collaborative process of stakeholder engagement. Background Odisha has been identified as one of the most vulnerable states in … Read More
Connections: How Social Interactions Shape Growth Stories of Women-led Enterprises
Aishwarya Joshi
This blog presents insights from a research study that seeks to understand how social interactions between women entrepreneurs and their business ecosystem intersect with their social and economic backgrounds, and in turn shape their business decisions and outcomes. “Women are … Read More
Building Collaborative Philanthropy to Strengthen Women’s Entrepreneurship in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas
Sharon Buteau, Preethi Rao, Diksha Singh, Mridulya Narasimhan
Entrepreneurship development is an important pathway for enabling women’s participation in the economy and can be a catalyst for change by providing income-generating opportunities. However, India ranks 57 out of 65 countries in women entrepreneurship. While several challenges faced by … Read More
Connections: How Social Interactions Shape Growth Stories of Women-led Enterprises
Aishwarya Joshi, Mridulya Narasimhan
India has an estimated 14.9 million women-owned enterprises, which hold the promise of job creation and improved agency for the country’s working-age female population. While positive spillover effects of these women-led businesses have been documented, women own only 20.4% of … Read More
Scorecard for Women Entrepreneurship : Unlocking the Potential of Women – charcha 2022
In India’s journey to creating more than 150 million jobs by 2030, the emphasis on female entrepreneurship cannot be disregarded. Sharon Buteau, Executive Director, LEAD at Krea University, will join other policymakers & leaders to share thoughts on ‘Scorecard for … Read More
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