LEAD is an action-oriented research centre of IFMR Society, and has strategic oversight and brand support from Krea University to enable research synergies.
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Spotlight | This month, we kicked off #LEADat20 celebrating 20 years of learning, partnership, and impact, with #untanglingcomplexity at the heart of our stories and insights.
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📰 Article | How can India’s digital public infrastructure better serve older citizens? Sohini Paul and Sudeshna Dey explore why inclusion must go beyond connectivity to make services more accessible for older adults, in a piece for @Ideas4India
bit.ly/4i7eN9n
How can women-led rural enterprises reach bigger markets?
LEAD and DAY-NRLM, under the STREE initiative, highlight pathways to help women entrepreneurs strengthen market access, reach new customers and grow their businesses.
📖 Read our report: bit.ly/4Barmcy
99% of India’s registered MSMEs are micro, but these businesses vary widely.
Issue 2 of #MSMESignals explores why nano enterprises need distinct recognition and why outcomes beyond credit matter.
🔍Read: bit.ly/3Uv7yjB
#NanoEnterprises #MSMEs #EnterpriseGrowth
What skills will power India’s AI-data workforce?
At #Charcha2026, LEAD’s GxD hub & @thenudge_in launched the AI-Data Skills Framework (AISF) to map emerging roles and skills and inform workforce pathways.
🔗bit.ly/4yHzJKH
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In her concluding remarks, Ms. Sharon Buteau, Executive Director of @LEADatKrea , underscored the importance of evidence-based policy, cross-sector collaboration, and a One Health approach in building resilient systems for the future.
#Biosecurity #OneHealthConference2026
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Day 2— Conference on One Health, Biosecurity and Pandemic Resilience featured a tabletop exercise on One Health Biosecurity Preparedness bringing together participants to strengthen coordination, preparedness & resilienc @mssrf @LEADatKrea @DeccancentreIR
#OneHealth #Resilience
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🚨 Evaluating AI requires more than measuring technical performance. At our #Glocal2026 session, experts discussed how gender-intentional, context-sensitive evaluations can help ensure AI solutions are inclusive, equitable, and impactful.
🎥 Tune in.
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Registrations open for the International Conference on One Health: Integrating Interfaces for India’s Biosecurity and Pandemic Resilience.
🔗 Register now by scanning the QR code.
📅 2–3 July 2026 | 📍 Chennai
@LEADatKrea @mssrf @DeccancentreIR #OneHealth #biosecurity
💸What drives digital payments adoption in India: infrastructure or merchants?
A new peer-reviewed article by Abhinav Motheram & our ED @sharon_buteau examines 711 districts between 2020–24 to understand the supply-side drivers of UPI adoption.
🔗bit.ly/4vdDZAh
🛺 Across Chennai, women auto drivers are steering change against all odds.
Based on insights from 220 women auto drivers, our study w/ACE explores their financial and digital realities, aspirations, work patterns, & wellbeing.
🔍Read: bit.ly/4uxAK5l
Our new website is live 🎉
What started as a redesign became a 20-year reflection across research, policy & practice and shaped the thinking behind it. At its core is: #UntanglingComplexity 🧶because impact is complex, messy, and deeply contextual.
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📣 AI Safety & Gender in India | Mitigation Pathways
As AI shapes daily life, India needs gender-responsive safeguards rooted in local realities. Drawing on latest brief from our GxD hub & @DigiFuturesLab, we highlight 4⃣ pathways to safer AI systems.
🔗bit.ly/3R1pVL1
🤖What does AI safety mean in India–& safe for whom?
As AI scales across everyday systems, risks aren’t experienced equally. New brief from our GxD hub & @DigiFuturesLab unpacks AI harms through a gender lens grounded in the Indian context.
🔖Explore:tinyurl.com/4c2vsx9e
🗓️ April 23 | 📍 Oxford
How can growth be more inclusive, distributed & locally rooted?
At the Rubanomics Global Forum, alongside Skoll World Forum, our ED Sharon Buteau will share insights on integrated pathways for women & youth.
🔗 RSVP: luma.com/njnxb8jp
Who gets to inherit land—& who's expected to give it up?
Across Northern India, women are quietly reshaping inheritance norms—navigating social expectations & legal rights to claim what’s theirs.
Our research w/ @OpenUniversity explores how.
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