Gender

Most of the health, education and budget related work by CBPS has incorporated gender as a special focus. Reproductive and Maternal Health and Public Expenditure Analysis are some of the studies that examined gender as a focus area. Currently, three major research studies primarily focusing on gender issues are being conducted. New employment opportunities and incidence of violence against women in Information Technology Industry is being explored. Impact of working in the IT industry on care-related responsibilities is also being studied. Another study is trying to understand the barriers to economic empowerment of women inherent in societal systems and solutions to such barriers by looking through the lens of a collective action based programme in the rural areas of India. This research study evaluates the impact of Mahila Samakhya programme on women’s economic empowerment in Bihar and Karnataka. There is also a study which involves looking at the budgeting process of Delhi Police and its implications on key aspects of police response and service delivery with a focus on crimes against women.

Projects

  • 09 Nov
    2022
    Building alternate and game-based framework to understand and support women working in and engaging with public spaces and institutions On Going
    Duration: August 2022 – July 2025 Funder/ Partner: Ford Foundation The objective of this project is to design a game-based research and outreach framework (otherwise referred to as the toolkit) that will help women working in public spaces to articulate their needs, establish pathways to collaborations and provide awareness so as to enable inclusion. In the South Asian context, rapid urban...
  • 01 Dec
    2020
    Analysis of macro-economic impact of COVID-19 and Development of responsive financing Model for the state of Chhattisgarh Completed
    Duration: October 2020 - September 2021 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: UNICEF Chhattisgarh Office In addition to being a global public health crisis, COVID-19 has also severely affected the global economy at all levels, from national to sub-national. Significant reductions in income, rise in unemployment and disruptions in transportation, service and manufacturing industries are the ...
  • 02 Jul
    2020
    Gender violence in public spaces: Studying the approaches and theorising the pathways of change On Going
    Duration: June 2020 to May 2024 Status: On-Going Funder/ Partner: Ford Foundation Feeling unsafe in public spaces takes a variety of forms all over the world. The experiences of violence prevent women’s full participation in public life and influence their sense of self, their understanding of vulnerability and has implications for women’s access to freedom of movement, education a...
  • 03 Jun
    2020
    Open Research Data Initiative (ORDI) Completed
    Duration: September 2019 – July 2020 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: International Development Research Centre, Canada (IDRC) CBPS has been committed to making research data openly accessible and available to all. So, as part of the Open Research Data Initiative (ORDI), we have started to work towards this goal by archiving and making available all of the qualitative and quantitativ...
  • 26 May
    2020
    National capacities strengthened to address gender equality in education Completed
    Duration: 26 June 2019 – 20 December 2019 Funder/ Partner: The United Nations Educational, Scientific And Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Achieving gender equality in and through education is central to meeting the targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is clear that gender disparity exists in education, and largely disadvantages girls. However, there are specific disadv...
  • 26 May
    2020
    Evaluation of the ISST project ‘Capacity Building in Gender Transformative Evaluation’ Completed
    Duration: 30 December 2019 to 15 June 2020 Status: Completed Funder/ Partner: Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST) The Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST) approached Centre for Budget and Policy Studies (CBPS) to evaluate an online course titled Facilitating Gender Transformative Evaluations that ISST has been conducting since 2018. The online module aims to develop the capaciti...
  • 16 Jul
    2018
    Public Expenditure on Health in Rajasthan – A critical analysis of size, sources, priorities, flow, processes and management Completed
    Duration: July 2018 to September 2020 Status: Completed Funder/Partner: UNICEF, New Delhi Public expenditure on health in India, despite being low in comparison to most countries, is substantial in its size. An analysis of public expenditure patterns becomes important to aid to the understanding of its directions as well as to gauge the efficiency of the expenditure. This study will unde...
  • 16 Jul
    2018
    Public Expenditure on Health in Maharashtra – A critical analysis of size, sources, priorities, flow, processes and management Completed
    Duration: July 2018 to September 2020 Status: Completed Funder/Partner: UNICEF, New Delhi Public expenditure on health in India, despite being low in comparison to most countries, is substantial in its size. An analysis of public expenditure patterns becomes important to aid to the understanding of its directions as well as to gauge the efficiency of the expenditure. This study will und...
  • 16 Jul
    2018
    Outcome Assessment of Mathrupoorna, Srusti Scheme (Egg supply Scheme) and Ksheera Bhagya Schemes in Karnataka Completed
    Duration: July 2018 to March 2019 Funder/Partner: UNICEF, New Delhi Karnataka launched the Mathrupoorna scheme in 2017 to provide one hot cooked meal a day to pregnant women and lactating mothers in place of the Take Home Rations. The food is provided at the Anganwadi centres across the state to about 12 lakh beneficiaries. Each meal is expected to cover about 45% of the calorie and nutritio...
  • 16 Jul
    2018
    Process Review of the Bhagyalakshmi (BL) Scheme in Karnataka Completed
    Duration: July 2018 to March 2019 Status: Completed Funder/Partner: UNICEF, New Delhi CBPS has recently concluded a preliminary study on Bhagyalakshmi (BL), a cash transfer scheme operational in Karnataka since 2006-07 for those from Below Poverty Line families. This is a second phase of the study including a field-based process review to deepen our understanding of the scheme’s functi...

Areas of Work