CAPABILITIES
Social & Economic Empowerment
The ability of governments to achieve their social and economic goals with limited resources, largely depends on the efficiency, transparency, and flexibility of public administration institutions.
Despite the substantial progress, there are certain economies that are marked by extreme social and economic inequalities, particularly among women and marginalised groups.
We believe mainstreaming gender is critical to achieving long-term development goals. With experience in policy development, capacity building, adaptive management, community mobilisation, behaviour change communication, deepening social safety nets, beneficiary feedback analysis, poverty assessment, and evidence-based monitoring, we create inclusive and sustainable solutions. Our work can be classified into three broad areas — building girl capital, empowering women, and nurturing resilient communities.
We are building girl capital by tackling unequal access to education; bolstering their voice and agency through Sexual and Reproductive Health Education; ensuring that they gain academic and vocational knowledge, and building life skills so they have opportunities to generate income.
We are empowering women by addressing economic and normative barriers to improve the health and nutrition outcomes of women and their children and by promoting sustainable livelihoods. We use a variety of interventions to achieve women’s empowerment goals, including conditional and unconditional cash transfers, behaviour change interventions to challenge social and gender norms, and improved access to social protection programmes.
We are nurturing resilient communities by promoting locally relevant climate adaptation packages, developing a hyper-granular vulnerability index for introducing climate-smart agriculture practices among small and marginal farmers, and conducting research in resilient food systems.
SOCIAL & ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
Thematic Focus
Community Empowerment for Advancing Equity
Gender and Social Inclusion Analysis and Mainstreaming in Developmental Programmes, Policies and Practices
Ending Systemic
Discrimination
Gender-based
Violence
Social Protection and Safety
Nets
Social and Behaviour Change to tackle discriminatory gender norms
Voice, Empowerment and
Accountability
Effective States for Inclusive Development
Aid and Government
Effectiveness
Accountability and
Transparency of Public, Private
and Civil Society Institutions
Public Administration and
Public Sector Reforms
Decentralisation and Local
Government Reforms
Gender Analysis, Gender Audits
and Gender Mainstreaming in
Governance Processes
SOCIAL & ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
Key Projects
Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Udaan: Preventing teenage pregnancy with a 360° approach
Preventing adolescent pregnancy by combining system level interventions with on-ground actions to change social practices around early marriage and pregnancy, Udaan was a five-year project implemented in the state of Rajasthan.
Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Manzil: Inspiring young girls to seek aspiring careers
Enabling access to quality education & economic opportunities, Manzil seeks to empower young girls aged 14-21 years in Rajasthan to take independent decisions, thereby preventing early marriage and delaying the age of first pregnancy.
Children's Investment Fund Foundation
RajPusht: Strengthening care in the first 1,000 Days
Reducing the prevalence of low birth weight and wasting among children in Rajasthan, RajPusht is improving maternal & child health by championing cash transfers for new mothers to help them avail nutritious diet.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
RANI: Reducing anaemia through normative innovations
Aimed at testing the ability of a norms-based behaviour change intervention to reduce anemia, RANI was a clustered randomised controlled trial.