Friday, March 31, 2023
Zara Fauziah is a transgender woman from Indonesia. She learned she was living with HIV in 2017, but for four years coped with her diagnosis alone. The hospital where she could receive treatment wasn’t welcoming.
Rere Agistya, another...
Thursday, October 20, 2022
An online tool that gives people in rural India access to drought early warnings and geographic data to help them find ways to adapt to climate change has been devised by IIED and is being rolled out in several states. The Climate Resilience Information...
Friday, October 14, 2022
About 39 per cent of all job card-holding households interested in working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) 2005 did not get a single day of work in the Covid year of 2020-21, revealed a survey conducted by...
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Welfare states, where they still exist, have rapidly become targeted welfare states, preoccupied with the need to exclude persons deemed ineligible for certain welfare measures. Means testing is one way of fine-tuning targeting, i.e...
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Friday, August 5, 2022
The National Rural Livelihood Mission aims to increase income and improve the well-being of rural households. Using survey data from nine states in India, this article analyses the existence of caste-based differences in self-help groups within the NRLM...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Bhavana Devi, or Bhuri, as she is known by people in the village of Kerpura in Rajasthan’s Udaipur district, cheerfully opens the rusted iron doors to her home. Sunlight streams in. It lights up her dwelling, one small cement-and-brick box with a damaged...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
In 2002, BRAC Bangladesh pioneered a programme as part of their Graduation approach to development interventions. The programme aimed to lift ultra-poor women above the extreme poverty line within two years through the provision of small...
Monday, July 4, 2022
Our recently concluded State of Exclusion study finds that payment failures during the back-end processing of a Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) payment are a significant concern. In this blog piece, we highlight the broad takeaways to help the...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Despite the undeniable threats of climate change, little consideration has been given to creating social safety nets for the vulnerable or engendering resilience in institutions disrupted by extreme climate events. In this post, Nikita Sharma considers...
Monday, June 13, 2022
Economic insecurity caused by lockdowns during the early days of Covid-19 forced many households to rely on government welfare schemes to fulfil their consumption needs. Using data from the June 2020 round of the Delhi NCR Coronavirus Telephone Survey,...
