IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/fpr/othbrf/174707.html

Strengthening women’s livelihoods through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA): Policy strategies for resilience and inclusion: The Bhubaneshwar Charter

Author

Listed:
  • Narayanan, Sudha
  • Raghunathan, Kalyani
  • Kosec, Katrina
  • Paul, Meekha Hannah
  • Kumar, Deepak
  • Agnihotri, Satish B.
  • Murthy, Indu K.
  • Sarathy, Partha
  • Panda, Aditi

Abstract

Globally, there is increasing recognition of the significant potential for social protection programs to sup-port sustainable livelihoods and build household resilience to climatic and economic shocks (Jordan et al., 2021; Norton et al., 2020). For women—who disproportionately bear the burden of these shocks—such programs serve as a critical safety net and a pathway to economic empowerment (Kosec et al., 2023; Mason & Agan, 2015). Yet, the extent to which social protection delivers on this promise depends on robust financing, inclusive program design, and effective implementation. Evidence suggests that public interventions often fall short in addressing gender inequalities, and that complementary efforts must be made to redress entrenched disadvantages that women might face in shaping, accessing, and benefiting from these programs.

Suggested Citation

  • Narayanan, Sudha & Raghunathan, Kalyani & Kosec, Katrina & Paul, Meekha Hannah & Kumar, Deepak & Agnihotri, Satish B. & Murthy, Indu K. & Sarathy, Partha & Panda, Aditi, 2025. "Strengthening women’s livelihoods through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA): Policy strategies for resilience and inclusion: The Bhubaneshwar Charter," Other briefs 3, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    • Handle: RePEc:fpr:othbrf:174707
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174707
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Katrina Kosec & Jie Song & Hongdi Zhao & Brian Holtemeyer, 2023. "The Gendered Impacts of Income Fluctuations on Household Departure, Labor Supply, and Human Capital Decisions: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(1), pages 205-235, January.
    2. Farzana Afridi & Kanika Mahajan & Nikita Sangwan, 2022. "Employment Guaranteed? Social Protection During a Pandemic," Oxford Open Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 1, pages 1-15.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Narayanan, Sudha & Raghunathan, Kalyani & Gautam, Aditi, 2024. "Leveraging public works for sustainable and resilient livelihoods: Four case studies from India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act," IFPRI discussion papers 2318, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    2. Kosec, Katrina & Kyle, Jordan & Narayanan, Sudha & Raghunathan, Kalyani & Ray, Soumyajit, 2024. "Claim-making under India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA): Barriers and opportunities for women’s voice and agency over asset selection," IFPRI discussion papers 2247, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    3. repec:sus:susewp:1324 is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Bussolo,Maurizio & Kotia,Ananya & Sharma,Siddharth, 2021. "Workers at Risk : Panel Data Evidence on the COVID-19 Labor Market Crisis in India," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9584, The World Bank.
    5. Farzana Afridi & Amrita Dhillon & Sanchari Roy, 2021. "The gendered crisis: livelihoods and mental well-being in India during COVID-19," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2021-65, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    6. Banerjee, Souvik & Mukhopadhyay, Sankar & Jaiswal, Preeti, 2025. "Motherhood and Labour Market Outcomes: Penalty or Premium?," IZA Discussion Papers 18246, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    7. Dean Hyslop & David C. Maré & Shannon Minehan, 2023. "COVID-19 Wage Subsidy: Outcome evaluation," Motu Working Papers 23_03, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.
    8. Farzana Afridi & Abhishek Arora & Diva Dhar & Kanika Mahajan, 2025. "Women’s Work, Social Norms, and the Marriage Market," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 74(1), pages 141-179.
    9. Ishaan Bansal & Kanika Mahajan, 2021. "COVID-19, Income Shocks and Female Employment," Working Papers 69, Ashoka University, Department of Economics.
    10. Deshpande, Ashwini & Singh, Jitendra, 2021. "Dropping Out, Being Pushed Out or Can’t Get in? Decoding Declining Labour Force Participation of Indian Women," IZA Discussion Papers 14639, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    11. World Bank, 2022. "Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 37739, April.
    12. Ashwini Deshpande & Jitendra Singh, 2021. "Dropping Out, Being Pushed out or Can't Get In? Decoding Declining Labour Force Participation of Indian Women," Working Papers 65, Ashoka University, Department of Economics.
    13. Parantap Basu & Rajesh Raj S. N & Kunal Sen, 2024. "Payment delay in workfare programmes and household welfare: Theory and some evidence from India," Manchester School, University of Manchester, vol. 92(2), pages 93-121, March.
    14. Arora,Abhishek & George,Siddharth & Rao,Vijayendra & Sharan,MR, 2023. "The Added Value of Local Democracy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10555, The World Bank.
    15. Farzana Afridi & Abhishek Arora & Diva Dhar & Kanika Mahajan, 2023. "Women’s Work, Social Norms and the Marriage Market∗," Working Papers 94, Ashoka University, Department of Economics.
    16. Afridi, Farzana & Mahajan, Kanika & Sangwan, Nikita, 2021. "The Gendered Effects of Climate Change: Production Shocks and Labor Response in Agriculture," IZA Discussion Papers 14568, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    17. Anirban Sanyal & Nirvikar Singh & Rolly Kapoor, 2024. "Impacts of the COVID lockdown on household incomes: evidence from Punjab, India," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 66(1), pages 207-242, January.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fpr:othbrf:174707. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ifprius.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.