Women’s Livelihood Resilience Loop

Context

This model explores how income stability, shock exposure, social support, and skill investment interact to determine women’s economic resilience. It reflects both vulnerability factors and empowerment pathways.

Key Variables

Income Stability: Base regularity of women’s earnings.
Shock Exposure: Frequency/intensity of external disruptions.
Social Support: Community, SHG, and familial buffers.
Skill Investment: Efforts made to upskill and diversify livelihoods.

Feedback Loops

Vulnerability Loop: High shock exposure → lower income stability → greater economic fragility.
Empowerment Loop: Social support + skill investment → higher resilience → improved livelihoods.

Policy Relevance

Useful for designing livelihood diversification programs (NRLM), resilience-focused microfinance interventions, SHG strengthening, and gender-sensitive climate adaptation planning.

Region/Application

Rural Jharkhand, SHG networks in Tamil Nadu, flood-affected women’s collectives in Assam, drought-hit women’s cooperatives in Maharashtra.