Monitoring Learning and Evaluation of Convergence

MLE Convergence Project is a three-year Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant to evaluate the impact of system-level interventions on women’s income and agency. The project focuses on assessing the systemic shifts and increased participation of women collectives in the planning and implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the world’s largest social welfare scheme.

Main objectives of the project

Employing quasi-experiments, process tracing, and theorization of prototypes the team evaluates intervention teams’ efforts.

Durable asset creation under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) and wage-earning opportunities

Awareness of MGNREGS Rights and Entitlements at the community level

Enable greater convergence of NRLM and MGNREGA at the state level

Scale up Gender Resource Centers- Nari Adhikaar Kendra

Expected outcomes of the project

These systemic shifts have an impact on intergenerational mobility, increased women’s economic agency, and the impact of the convergence of social and economic entitlements  on social protection in India.

Interventions to improve women's leadership and participation

Develop activities to promote women as leaders in Mahila Mate, CLF as PIA.

Promote public procurement of products and services offered by SHG women

Increase women’s involvement in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme by planning, and improving women’s income, agency, and access to benefits and entitlements.

 

Monitoring Learning and Evaluation of Convergence

Imago Global Grassroots provides technical assistance on the convergence efforts between Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and National Rural Livelihood Mission, a national poverty alleviation program, and other social and economic programs to the respective partners across seven districts in Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. Our strategic partners are Transform Rural India Foundation (TRIF) in Madhya Pradesh, and Project Concern International (PCI) in Bihar. The evaluation team is embedded with the intervention teams and works with government bureaucracy to be abreast with implementation challenges. 

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