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How Can Impact Evaluation Methodologies Capture Gender Equity Impacts?

2 September 2016
This presentation explores the impact of electricity on gender. It features Asian Development Bank’s intervention approach in the form of an evaluation exercise. It also examines if the intended objectives of this method have improved women’s quality of life and empowerment.

ADB and IFMR Workshop: Discussion Highlights

3 June 2016
This article summarizes the discussions during the different workshop sessions on catastrophe risk protection markets in India.

Lagging Performance of Agriculture Sector

24 May 2016
The lagging performance of India’s agriculture sector affects majority of rural dwellers. Limited access to affordable funding for farmers constrains potential investments in agriculture. This presentation shares suggestions on how to address the challenges of financial inclusion for farmers to…

Customer-Centricity for Financial Inclusion

24 May 2016
Customer-centricity is the key to real financial inclusion with digitization as the tool towards this transformation. Recently, there has been a big push to promote digital financial inclusion in India with some examples featured in this presentation. The success and benefits as well as the…

BASIX Social Enterprise Group

24 May 2016
BASIX Social Enterprise Group, at the forefront of financial inclusion, offers affordable, accessible, and scalable digital payments solutions to the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) segment in India. This presentation discusses the stages of microfinance digitization based from BASIX’s experience.

Interventions to be Evaluated

14 April 2016
Two interventions under the Asian Development Bank’s energy efficiency improvement investment program in India’s Madhya Pradesh are evaluated in this presentation. Hypothesis testing was used to determine whether it is true or not that “rural electrification leads to improved living standards,” and…

Innovative and Disruptive Technologies and Processes

12 April 2016
This presentation features an energy distribution initiative introduced in Mousuni Island near India’s Kolkata City by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. It aims to integrate both traditional grid and micro grid systems with various renewable energy sources to create electricity that is…

Private Sector Partnership for Inclusive Solar Park Development in Rajasthan

12 April 2016
This presentation discusses the advantages of considering India’s Rajasthan State as a solar destination. The development of solar parks as a joint venture public-private partnership is introduced. It also explains the benefits of forming a public-private joint venture company.

Video - Session 4 - Skills Development to Create a Local Pool of Labor

12 April 2016
This video covers Session 4 of the conference entitled “Skills Development to Create a Local Pool of Labor.” The importance of skills development in the context of energy access is examined. More specifically, it analyzes a broad range of issues on employment generation, skills development, and job…

Video - Session 6 - Alternative Financing Schemes and Business Models

12 April 2016
This video covers Session 6 of the conference entitled “Alternative Financing Schemes and Business Models.” It draws lessons from a solar home program implemented in Bangladesh that demonstrates how business models can address inclusive energy challenges. It also shows how private sector…