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The authors would like to thank the participants of the roundtable and the two funders for their inputs and support. [...] mailto:rkapoor@icrier.res.in mailto:sprakash@icrier.res.in How Budget 2024 Can Provide an Impetus to Women-led Development Synthesis of the First Roundtable of the Network on Economic Policies for Women-led Development (EPWD) Under its G20 presidency, India initiated the mainstreaming of gender into economic policy discussions by shifting the focus from women’s development to women-led development. [...] Key Takeaway from the Roundtable The main message of the discussion was that to enable women-led development, a multi-pronged approach that addresses constraints - both on the supply side (the burden of care and domestic work, lack of skills and education, social and cultural norms) and demand side (limited demand for women’s work) - is the need of the hour. [...] To enable women to save time spent on collecting fuel and cooking, it is important to ensure that the budgetary allocations to the programme are enhanced such that all eligible women have access to the scheme and an adequate number of cylinder refills are within the reach of beneficiary households. [...] At the city level, three contours of the programme could include: (i) quantitative and qualitative data on the gender, age, and income differences in travel behaviour in cities; (ii) understanding the gendered differences in issues and priorities in public transport systems and implementing interventions that improve women’s safety and access to opportunities; (iii) increasing women’s employment a.