The ability of governments to achieve their social and economic goals with limited resources largely depends on the efficiency, transparency, and flexibility of public administration institutions. Despite the substantial progress, there are certain economies that are marked by extreme social and economic inequalities, particularly among women and marginalised groups.

We believe mainstreaming gender is critical to achieving long-term development goals. With experience in policy development, capacity building, adaptive management, community mobilisation, behaviour change communication, deepening social safety nets, beneficiary feedback analysis, poverty assessment, and evidence-based monitoring, we create inclusive and sustainable solutions. Our work can be classified into three broad areas — building girl capital, empowering women, and nurturing resilient communities.

We are building girl capital by tackling unequal access to education; bolstering their voice and agency through Sexual and Reproductive Health Education; ensuring that they gain academic and vocational knowledge, and building life skills so they have opportunities to generate income.

We are empowering women by addressing economic and normative barriers to improve the health and nutrition outcomes of women and their children and by promoting sustainable livelihoods. We use a variety of interventions to achieve women’s empowerment goals, including conditional and unconditional cash transfers, behaviour change interventions to challenge social and gender norms, and improved access to social protection programmes.

We are nurturing resilient communities by promoting locally relevant climate adaptation packages, developing a hyper-granular vulnerability index for introducing climate-smart agriculture practices among small and marginal farmers, and conducting research in resilient food systems.

Thematic Focus

Community Empowerment for Advancing Equity

• Community Empowerment for Advancing Equity Gender and Social Inclusion Analysis and Mainstreaming in Developmental Programmes, Policies and Practices
• Ending Systemic Discrimination
• Gender-based Violence
• Social Protection and Safety Nets
• Social and Behaviour Change to tackle discriminatory gender norms
• Voice, Empowerment and Accountability

Effective States for Inclusive Development

• Aid and Government Effectiveness
• Accountability and Transparency of Public, Private and Civil Society Institutions
• Public Administration and Public Sector Reforms
• Decentralisation and Local Government Reforms
• Gender Analysis, Gender Audits and Gender Mainstreaming in Governance Processes