Can innovative digital and assisted approaches enable women’s collectives to realize their full potential, and in turn promote their social and economic empowerment? This note provides a snapshot of three digital interventions and use cases being tested by LEAD and IWWAGE in Chhattisgarh, in partnership with the State’s Rural Livelihood Mission Bihan, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Fou. [...] Activities 5,077 An impact and process From the trainees, evaluation of the program SHG members is currently underway 3,623 women have received successfully completed training on using 1,618 interviews a post-assessment and the Haqdarshak with Haqdarshikas and obtained a Haqdarshak application, in 25 ID blocks across 7 12,676 surveys with districts citizens and SHG members in both treatment and co. [...] A randomized evaluation Between May Factsheets with of the intervention is 2020 and August results and key underway, whereby Mor 2020, a sample of insights from Pull Awaaz has been randomly offered to women in 1,081 Call surveys have women been shared with were surveyed in the 180 out of 212 relevant government district of Raipur, study villages located in departments in SKY program rural Raipur. [...] Results In SKY program villages, only The majority of respondents used the phone 46% to contact their natal family (97.8%) and of respondents were friends and neighbours (96.59%), over the primary phone users past month. [...] In particular, the research was aimed to gauge the degree of connectedness of SHG members to other SHGs women and the community overall and to understand how the lack of participation in a SHG affected their daily life.
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