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_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.crpGenderen_US
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Marketsen_US
cg.contributor.donorFederal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germanyen_US
cg.contributor.donorDeutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeiten_US
cg.coverage.countryIndiaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2INen_US
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asiaen_US
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen_US
cg.identifier.urlhttp://view.ceros.com/ifpri/resilience/p/1en_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusionen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen_US
dc.contributor.authorInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-24T11:57:29Zen_US
dc.date.available2021-06-24T11:57:29Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/114107en_US
dc.titleDetermination and resilience amid COVID-19 uncertainty: How self-employed women in India coped with lockdowns and disruptions to businessen_US
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_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
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_US
dcterms.issued2021-01en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseOtheren_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.subjectcoronavirus diseaseen_US
dcterms.subjectcovid-19en_US
dcterms.subjectresilienceen_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.subjectwomenen_US
dcterms.subjectenterprisesen_US
dcterms.subjectemploymenten_US
dcterms.typeInfographicen_US

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