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Episode 12: The Challenges of Phone Surveys with Women in India during COVID

This episode features Shweta Gupta who tells us the story of how the pandemic has upended the way IFPRI researchers are doing household surveys.
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Factors influencing the performance of community health workers: A qualitative study of Anganwadi workers from Bihar, India

Globally, there remain significant knowledge and evidence gaps around how to support Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes to achieve high coverage and quality of interventions.
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Women’s access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal

COVID-19 induced lockdowns have had far reaching impacts on the rural sector, particularly on women farmers.
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COVID‐19, government transfer payments, and investment decisions in farming business: Evidence from Northern India

This paper examines whether the public transfer program PMGKY, announced immediately after the lockdown, benefited farmers in dealing with the COVID shock.
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IFPRI Insights: January 2021

January 11, 2021
Women's Resilience during COVID-19; Fighting Child Wasting; India's New Nutrition Data; and more Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program