Publications

Research report

Better Skills Better Care: Key Findings from the Midline Implementation Report

The Better Skills Better Care programme integrates vocational skilling, childcare services and gender-responsive community engagement to enhance women's labour force participation and improve early childhood development. This report presents findings from the programme's first phase across Ranchi, Satara and Vadodara.

The results show how accessible childcare, job training and entrepreneurial support can help women enter the labour market while improving children's early learning outcomes and encouraging more equitable caregiving norms.

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Programme brief

Scaling Innovations for an Inclusive Care Economy

This brief introduces Better Skills Better Care, an integrated vocational skilling and Early Childhood Care and Education intervention designed for low-income families in rural and semi-urban India.

By bringing livelihood training and affordable, quality childcare together in one community space, the model supports women's economic participation, children's school readiness and a fairer distribution of unpaid care work.

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