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In this article, we explore the impacts and implications of ‘Rojiroti’, a women’s self-help group (SHG) microfinance scheme operating in poor communities in Bihar, India. We focus particularly on how improvements found in women’s circumstances and in children’s health might result from Rojiroti SHG membership. Through data from 5 focus groups and 1...
Flooding is among the largest economic costs of climate change and vulnerable communities in some of the poorest countries are particularly badly affected. Community‐planned interventions to build resilience to floods following climate shocks and stresses play a role in major global development programmes but evidence on their costs and benefits is...
The impact of microfinance on domestic violence has been widely discussed, but there is still no consensus due to the fact that context and programme implementation mechanisms have a large effect on outcomes. An innovative grassroots microfinance organisation in India, Rojiroti, has a number of unique features which make a positive impact on domest...
Objective
To determine whether Rojiroti microfinance, for poor Indian women, improves child nutrition.
Design
Cluster randomised trial.
Setting
Tolas (village communities) in Bihar State.
Participants
Women and children under 5 years.
Interventions
With Rojiroti microfinance, women form self-help groups and save their money to provide loans to...
The Rojiroti approach to microfinance involves creation of women's self-help groups (SHGs), rotated loans from savings, and subsequent credit from CPSL, a Bihar-based NGO. Rojiroti serves customers who are significantly poorer and more marginalized than those typically served by microfinance (MF) in India. In the data analysed, more than 90 per cen...
Aims:
Globally, poverty is the single most important cause of ill health. Microfinance initiatives (MFI), involving small loans, can alleviate poverty and may impact on children’s health. However, methodology of existing studies is often weak and systematic reviews report conflicting findings. Rojiroti is an innovative MFI that functions through se...
Background:
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals include targets for the health of children under five years old. Poor health is linked to poverty and microfinance initiatives are economic interventions that may improve health by breaking the cycle of poverty. However, there is a lack of reliable evidence to support this. In addition, m...
Community-development development (CDD) programs require monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to tell those implementing and funding the programs whether they are on track to deliver, or have delivered, desired outcomes such as improved services, economic activity, and empowerment. The objective of this toolkit is to provide practical guidance to World...
This article explores the contribution that artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) makes to poverty reduction in Tanzania, drawing on findings from research on gold and diamond mining in Mwanza Region. The evidence suggests that people working in mining or related services are less likely to be in poverty than those with other occupations. However,...
This paper proposes an empirical analysis concerning the cost of unserved energy (CUE) or value of lost load in agriculture and industrial sectors and provides insights that can provide useful inputs in designing effective policies for the power sector. About 500 manufacturing units and 900 farmers were surveyed in the south Indian state of Karnata...
This book situates current development research issues squarely within debates about development policy and social research and it will help begin the process of defining best practice in the use of participatory/ qualitative and quantitative methods of considerable interest to academics, practitioners and policy makers.
This paper presents the key findings of a study, funded by the Department for International Development of the UK, into the economic costs and benefits of alternative land use options in forested lowland of the Mount Cameroon region. Detailed analysis of the total economic value of sustainable forest use, small-scale agriculture and plantation agri...
A common thread linking schools, clinics and small businesses in rural areas is often a lack of electrical power. This restricts their ability to serve their community. PV electricity for lighting, communications, refrigeration or entertainment can significantly enhance the services provided both by public institutions and private businesses. Indee...
"Whilst there is growing evidence on how programme aid and Sector-Wide Approaches (SWAps) might best be managed, there remain few accounts of how cross-cutting themes can successfully be incorporated into these. This paper focuses on environment as one such theme. Environmental issues have a close bearing on the livelihoods of the poor, and form th...