Be the Change You Want to See: Leadership Training and Women’s Political Participation

This project was examining the impact of a leadership and empowerment training program, aimed at increasing women’s political participation as voters, activists, informed citizens and political candidates. The training program was being conducted as a randomized trial and participation in both electoral and non-electoral political processes will be measured. This project was directed by Lakshmi Iyer, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and Anandi Mani, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Warwick. MORSEL has completed an Endline survey of more than 2,500 respondents in 11 districts of Uttar Pradesh.