Resources
Branchless Banking: Bringing digital financial services directly to farmers’ doorsteps
Branchless Banking (BLB) brings financial services to hard-to-reach customers through mobile agents who operate from existing businesses. Despite some success, BLB has struggled to reach farmers and the agriculture sector. The Feed the Future Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture in Nepal (KISAN) II Project stepped in to help banks fill this gap. Through a no-cost partnership […]
Labor Abuse Complaint Mechanisms in Thailand
The report aims to increase policymakers’, service providers’, and employers’ understanding of the options Thai and migrant workers have for filing laborcomplaints, and the obstacles workers face in obtaining redress for labor abuse. It is the authors’ hope that this information will allow the stakeholders to make informed adaptations of current policies and programs and […]
IWMA Water Security Case Study
From 2018 to 2020, the two-year activity Integrated Watershed Management Activity (IWMA) strengthened coordination and collaboration among USAID Nepal’s implementing partners (IPs), and improved water security for beneficiaries in two watersheds through six pilot integration activities. (To read the IWMA Final Report, click here.) Through IWMA, USAID Nepal was able to holistically address the development needs […]
The Story of a Male Trafficking Survivor
We are told to dream big from the start. Everyone loves a success story. We make heroes out of the uncles and dais (brothers) who come home with flat screen TVs, big phones, perfumes in shiny bottles and an array of other flashy things. But, there is a haunting silence about the fate of those […]
Hamro Samman: Partnerships Private Sector Engagement
Hamro Samman is a five-year Counter-Trafficking-in-Persons (CTIP) project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department for International Development (UK Aid) and implemented by Winrock International. The project’s goal is to reduce the prevalence of trafficking-in-persons (TIP) in 10 strategically selected districts of Nepal, namely: Kathmandu, Makwanpur, Nuwakot and Sindhupalchowk […]