CAPABILITIES

Social & Economic Empowerment

The ability of governments to achieve 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, behavioural 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 providing life skills to enable them to secure jobs.

We are empowering women by addressing economic and normative barriers to improve their health and nutrition outcomes. We use a variety of interventions including conditional and unconditional cash transfers, behavioural change interventions to challenge social and gender norms, and improve 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.