Gigi Gatti , Grameen Foundation's director of technology for development, discusses our FarmerLink program in the Philippines and shares key lessons for technology-based agricultural services.
Sanjay Podder, managing director of Accenture Labs India, explains his company's collaboration with Grameen Foundation to develop AI and augmented reality tools to help increase the adoption of financial services among low-income women.
The Manila Times cites Grameen Foundation's FarmerLink program as an example of digital transformations that are benefiting farmers in the Philippines.
Each one teach three. That is the motto of the Maa aur Shishu Swasthya (MASS, or the Mother and Child Health) Program. And it’s made all the difference in Ranubala and her family.
The mother of four in eastern India earns very little, making saving on her own difficult. In the past, whenever someone fell ill, she had to borrow from family and neighbors and cobble together what she could to pay for their care.
This research brief presents results from a series of “Health Diaries”—or frequent surveyor-administered surveys—conducted with 45 women in West Bengal and Jharkhand, India to uncover how low-income women prepare for, cover, and recover from health costs and focuses specifically on household decision-making behaviors and gender dynamics within the household.
This research brief will present results from a series of “Health Diaries”—or frequent surveyor-administered surveys—conducted with 45 women in West Bengal and Jharkhand, India to uncover how low-income women prepare for and experience childbirth and its associated costs.
This research brief presents results from a series of “Health Diaries” — or frequent surveyor-administered surveys — conducted with 45 women in West Bengal and Jharkhand, India and focuses on key findings related to treatment seeking behavior, access to services and insurance, how out-of-pocket costs are managed and who makes the decisions in the household regarding health care and how to pay for it.
In 2017, the Maa aur Shishu Swasthya (Mother and Child Health) Program, implemented across West Bengal with a key financial service partner, Aikyatan Development Society (ADS), focused on improving knowledge and behaviors related to pregnancy and childbirth. This research brief outlines the results from a pre- and post-test assessment with women’s self-help groups to determine the effectiveness of Pictorial Learning Conversations in improving knowledge and behaviors related to pregnancy and childbirth.
In the Philippines, Grameen Foundation's Community Agent Network has helped up to 1 million low-income clients access financial services in underserved communities. More than 75 percent of the 1800 agents are women. In this video, agents share how this breakthrough approach is transforming their communities.
Grameen Foundation's FarmerLink program in the Philippines is featured as one of the FAO's e-Agriculture promising practices for its use of satellite data, farm data and mobile-equipped field agents to help small-scale coconut farmers improve their productivity and incomes.