ANNUAL REPORT

The focus of trade and economic integration the objective of the the work is on gender mainstreaming across four core programme is as follows: pillars of the enabling ecosystem for trade in India: capacity building and skill development, financial • To improve the capacity of the BIMSTEC member inclusion, early-stage support and trade facilitation countries to undertake and sustain their trade and. [...] August 2022 to December 2022 SCOPE AND DELIVERABLES 1 Report, 1 Dissemination Conference OBJECTIVE The study has adopted a ‘mixed methods’ approach The study was part of the multi-country research and uses both secondary as well as primary sources undertaken by The Asia Foundation to examine to quantify the availability and assess the quality of the opportunities for and challenges to women's 24 A. [...] The efficiency of current supply chains is measured in How the Northeast region terms of the time and cost incurred in various stages of the supply chains and indicative costs on alternative (NER) of India Stands to Gain routes are obtained to assess how the sectors could from the BBIN MVA benefit and improve their export competitiveness. [...] In the context of the 25th anniversary of BIMSTEC in 2022, ICRIER, the NITI Aayog and the India Office of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung initiated a collaborative policy- oriented dialogue in the form of a webinar series titled “25 Years of BIMSTEC: Opportunities and Challenges in the post-COVID 19 Era”. [...] Ashok Gulati (Lead), and Ritika Juneja Given the importance of the agricultural sector in the FUNDED BY: state and the dismal state of farming households, the Infosys Foundation UP government needs to focus on region-specific policies for revitalising the agriculture sector in the TIME PERIOD: state.