Spotlight
MacKenzie Scott’s US$ 4.5 million grant to 3ie
Earlier this month, 3ie received a gift from MacKenzie Scott of US$4.5 million in unrestricted funds in organizational support. This is a significant contribution that will help us build a stronger 3ie and help us continue to fulfill our mission of providing important public evidence goods and improving lives through evidence-informed decision-making. In the post-COVID era, this kind of support allows organizations such as ours to remain agile and prepared to address urgent and unforeseen needs -- especially those that are difficult to fund through projects. We hope many more philanthropic organizations will see value in extending similar support.
The Development Evidence Portal
The Development Evidence Portal (DEP) is the world’s largest database of impact evaluations and systematic reviews on interventions to improve lives in low- and middle-income countries. It is updated monthly and contains more than 10,000 impact evaluations, systematic reviews and evidence gap maps. The DEP provides advanced searching capabilities and a rich set of options for filtering studies to help you find the evidence you need.
A framework for examining women’s economic empowerment in collective enterprises
3ie’s flagship empowerment program, ‘Swashakt: Empowering Indian Women’s Collectives’ supports projects that set up or replicate models for enhancing the scale and returns of women’s collective enterprises. It has reached more than 6900 women across 480 villages in 10 Indian states who have become a part of farm or non-farm women’s collective enterprises.
Sanitation-linked livelihoods project: Six key insights from a learning study
Over the last four years, several Indian states have taken strides to empower collectives of women and other vulnerable communities to operate and maintain sanitation enterprises and for the provision of sanitation service delivery. In this blog, we discuss the key findings emerging from our learning study to know about the feasibility and sustainability of collective-led sanitation work across three states.
