Transforming rural livelihoods in India: Findings from NRETP and NRLM evaluation

This impact evaluation examines how India’s NRLM tackles structural barriers to rural income growth by building large-scale federations of women’s self-help groups and sequencing targeted economic interventions. It presents evidence on the individual and combined returns of these phases, highlighting strong federations as key to sustained income gains. This work was conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), the Gates Foundation, and the World Bank. To know more, click here.