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Study of Millet Processing by Women’s SHGs in
India
Funder:
International Initiative for Impact
Evaluation
Principal
Investigator: Dr Apurba Shee
(NRI, University of Greenwich)
Co-Investigators: Dr Manoj Dora (Brunel
U.), Dr Srijit
Mishra (IGIDR), Dr Zaki Wahhaj
Project
Partners: WASSAN
Project
Period: 2021-2024
Funding
Amount: 980,000 USD
Millet
is an important crop in arid and semi-arid regions of India, tolerant of
extreme weather and nutritionally superior to major cereals with respect to
protein, energy, vitamins, and minerals. Yet, millet is considered as an
inferior food source due to inadequate post-harvest technologies for
processing. The project will promote the production and consumption of millet
through women’s collective enterprises in India. It involves an
intervention in the Indian state of Odisha, in which randomly selected
women’s self-help groups across 75 villages will be offered training and
technical support on processing millet and developing millet-based products for
the consumer market. The intervention will be conducted with an experimental
research design to allow the research team to assess the impact on
women’s entrepreneurial activities and the welfare of the participating
households.
Birth Registration Records for Adolescent Girls
Funder:
Grand Challenges Canada
Co-Investigator:
Dr Abu S Shonchoy
Project
Partners: MOMODa
Foundation
Project
Period: 2019-2021
Funding
Amount: 99,340 CAD
Many
children and adolescents around the world today lack official birth records,
which may be key to accessing publicly provided health and education services
and state protection against the abuse of child rights. In places where birth
registration systems have been introduced recently, parents may not be able to
bear the costs or lack the necessary information to carry out the registration
process. The project investigates how birth registration of adolescent girls in
developing countries can be accelerated with the aim of disrupting the
traditional practice of female early marriage.
Agricultural Insurance and Migrant Networks
Funder : International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
Co-PI:
Dr Harounan Kazianga
Project
Partners: Innovations for Poverty
Action/PlaNet
Guarantee
Project
Period: 2018-2023
Funding
Amount: 430,000 USD
The
project will investigate the impact of rainfall index insurance, marketed to
urban migrants in Burkina Faso, on investment, production and consumption
choices of their rural relatives. The intervention will be randomised at the
village-level, with treatment arms where rainfall index insurance is marketed (i) only to farmers within the village, (ii) only to their
urban migrant relatives and (iii) both, and control villages where no marketing
takes place.
Child
Marriage Law, Gender Norms and Marriage Customs
Funder:
Economic Development and Institutions
(DfID Research Programme)
Co-Investigators:
Professor Niaz
Asadullah, Dr Amrit
Amirapu
Project
Period: 2017-2019
Funding
Amount: 54,500 GBP
The
project examines whether marriage laws can affect marriage customs,
specifically those relating to child marriage practices, in a setting where
formal institutions are weak, and whether there are peer effects in this process.
For this purpose the project will make use of a new child marriage law in
Bangladesh, field experiments where rural women and men are given information
about child marriage cases, and a number of measures designed to capture their
beliefs and attitudes.
Agricultural
Insurance and Migrant Networks
Funder : International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
Co-PI:
Dr Harounan Kazianga
Project
Partners: Innovations for Poverty
Action/PlaNet
Guarantee
Project
Period: 2016-2017
Funding
Amount: 70,000 USD
The
project investigates a new strategy for making rainfall index insurance
available to small-holder farmers in rural Burkina Faso. Following a survey of
rural farming households, urban migrants who share family ties with rural farmers
were tracked and offered insurance policies to cover the rainfall risk of their
farming relatives. Findings from the first phase of the project are discussed
in a report here.
Female
Schooling, Gender Norms and Long-term Opportunities of Rural Women in
Bangladesh
Funder:
Australian Aid
Co-Investigator:
Professor Niaz
Asadullah
Project
Partners: DATA/Brac University
Project
Period: 2013-2016
Funding
Amount: 576,000 AUD
The
project explores a range of issues related to gender norms and social customs
that affect economic opportunities and outcomes for rural women in Bangladesh,
including female schooling, marriage, migration, labour force participation,
fertility and investment in children. The project included a large-scale
nationally representative survey of rural women which constitutes the 2014 Women’s Life Choices and
Attitudes Survey. Further information is available at www.integgra.org .
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