Women in Control of Their Lives

We are interested in scale. More women in control of their lives. This is the impact we seek to spread. That frames what we measure. All the way through the process we will capture: Reach: how many SRGs, and how many women in an SRG Quality: the extent to which we are doing our work…

This will change over time. How we learn will reflect what we have previously learned. But to start: The entire staff team will meet as a group with Ratio each month. Women in SRGs will also meet with Ratio once a month. We will get a sense of how the SRG model works, and where…

Our work builds on changes that are taking place in the way that we learn (and therefore in the way we design). We build on the work of a health scientist and policy maker Don Berwick who describes three eras: In era 1, knowledge and its application were governed by the professions. There was progress,…

The numbers are not clear, but we can be confident that there are over eight million self-help groups with over a 100 million members since the idea was first tried in India in the 1980s. It is now at the core of the Indian Government’s anti-poverty strategy. Noel Matthias took a group of people fighting…