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Policymakers have tried to induce women’s participation by leveraging the group-based format of self-help groups, which can build women’s social capital and develop their sense of political efficacy and identity.
This paper presents evidence on the association between program scale, costs, and cost-effectiveness by analyzing how the costs of a large-scale Self-Help Group program in India changed from its inception in
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In India, Women’s Self-Help Groups combat the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic (2020)
Women Self Help Groups in India have risen to the extraordinary challenge of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. They are meeting shortfalls in masks, sanitizers and protective equipment, running community kitchens, fighting
Afghanistan's Women Self-Help Groups on the COVID-19 Front Lines (2021)
In Afghanistan, the Women Economic Empowerment Rural Development Project (WEE-RDP) is a national program that empowers rural Afghan women to mobilize into self-help groups. These groups help their members access
Impact of COVID-19 on rural SHG women in Odisha (2020)
This report presents findings from a study that was conducted to assess the impact of COVID-19 on SHG women in Odisha. The objectives of the study were to (i) study the
Do SHG programs mitigate a household’s vulnerability to extreme weather events? (2018)
This paper addresses the question through a natural experiment arising from two independent but overlapping sources of variation: exposure to a devasting cyclone that occurred in the Bay of Bengal
Unheard voices: the challenge of inducing women’s economic speech (2017)
Policymakers have tried to induce women’s participation by leveraging the group-based format of self-help groups, which can build women’s social capital and develop their sense of political efficacy and identity.
Economies of scale of large-scale international development interventions: Evidence from self-help groups in India (2018)
This paper presents evidence on the association between program scale, costs, and cost-effectiveness by analyzing how the costs of a large-scale Self-Help Group program in India changed from its inception in
A case study of JEEViKA (2022)
Using primary survey data, this paper compares changes in different socio-economic factors of SHG women and non-SHG women. It assesses three main dimensions, i.e., loan size, savings pattern, and women