The policies that empower women: empirical evidence from India’s National Rural Livelihoods Project

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The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) promotes evidence-informed equitable, inclusive and sustainable development. We support the generation and effective use of high-quality evidence to inform decision-making and improve the lives of people living in poverty in low-and middle-income countries. We provide guidance and support to produce, synthesise and quality assure evidence of what works, for whom, how, why and at what cost. 3ie working papers These papers cover a range of content. They may focus on current issues, debates and enduring challenges facing development policymakers, programme managers, practitioners and the impact evaluation and systematic review communities. Policyrelevant papers in this series synthesise or draw on relevant findings from mixed-method impact evaluations, systematic reviews funded by 3ie, as well as other rigorous evidence to offer new analyses, findings, insights and recommendations. Papers focusing on methods and technical guides also draw on similar sources to help advance understanding, design and use of rigorous and appropriate evaluations and reviews. We also use this series to publish lessons learned from 3ie grant-making and contributions from 3ie's senior research fellows. About this working paper This paper, Assessing bottlenecks within Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation Delivery in Kenya: a workshop report, is a stakeholder-identified inventory of bottlenecks within Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation delivery systems in Kenya. This paper has not been professionally copyedited but has been formatted for publication by 3ie.

Women and entrepreneurship for economic growth in Indonesia

“…In the context of Indonesia, MSMEs led by women tend to be poorly structured with small-scale business forms. Studies have shown that women entrepreneurs tend to have fewer competencies and thus face various challenges to develop their businesses due to the cultural, social, and economic aspects of their operations (Hendratmi et al, 2022;Kochar et al, 2022). However, even when female entrepreneurs have the required competencies, growth outcomes tend to be unpredictable (Ladge et al, 2019).…”

“…They are sometimes the decision makers in their household from small things to big things. It can be considered that women are always involved in making decisions in the household (Kochar et al, 2022). Women take a very important role in the process alongside their husbands.…”