This evaluation assesses the impact of the government-funded Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project on poverty and women’s empowerment.

This process evaluation assesses the implementation fidelity of the Women’s Advancement in Rural Development and Agriculture programme, that works to economically empower smallholder women farmers and increase their agricultural income through market-led interventions in the districts of Purnea and Muzaffarpur, Bihar. The evaluation identifies enabling factors or implementation challenges that affect the programmes potential for sustainability and scale up.

This brief is based on an evaluation report that measures the impacts of India’s National Rural Livelihoods Project on a range of household and individual level economic, social and empowerment outcomes.

Authors of this working paper provide evidence on the effect of improvements in women’s access to financial resources on gender inequalities in private schooling investments in rural India.

The author of this note presents learning from India’s Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana National Rural Livelihoods Mission and illustrates the benefits of layering economic programs on social networks or groups, and how these vary according to the group’s composition and characteristics. Funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the note also talks about policy recommendations for decision-makers to consider.