Determination and resilience amid COVID-19 uncertainty: How self-employed women in India coped with lockdowns and disruptions to business

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpGender
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorFederal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germanyen
cg.contributor.donorDeutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeiten
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden
cg.identifier.urlhttp://view.ceros.com/ifpri/resilience/p/1en
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen
dc.contributor.authorInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-24T11:57:29Zen
dc.date.available2021-06-24T11:57:29Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/114107
dc.titleDetermination and resilience amid COVID-19 uncertainty: How self-employed women in India coped with lockdowns and disruptions to businessen
dcterms.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has made generating income and access to food far more difficult for many, particularly women in developing countries. To better understand how the pandemic and lockdowns to control its spread are affecting the livelihoods of female small-business owners and farmers in South Asia, IFPRI researchers, who otherwise would have worked on climate change adaptation strategies directly supporting women farmers, conducted surveys in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), an organization that aims to empower women workers to reach full-employment and self-reliance by providing the tools, support, and community for them to reach their economic potential. The researchers conducted a phone survey with 627 SEWA members and did in-depth case studies of five SEWA members across the Indian state of Gujarat. While each woman reported different experiences and perspectives on navigating COVID-19, a common theme emerged: making a living became tougher, yet these women were able to identify coping mechanisms to protect their livelihoods and their families. Click below to learn more about these five brave women’s stories – as they explain how COVID-19 is impacting their diverse sources of income and what SEWA is doing to help.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationIFPRI. 2021. Determination and resilience amid COVID-19 uncertainty: How self-employed women in India coped with lockdowns and disruptions to business. Washington, DC: IFPRI. http://view.ceros.com/ifpri/resilience/p/1en
dcterms.issued2021-01en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseOther
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.subjectcoronavirus diseaseen
dcterms.subjectcovid-19en
dcterms.subjectresilienceen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.subjectenterprisesen
dcterms.subjectemploymenten
dcterms.typeInfographic

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