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Financial Resilience

Skills training helps women connect with the key knowledge they need to advance their livelihoods. This includes technical support and extension. 

Why Digital Access Alone Does Not Build Financial Resilience

by Wendy Chamberlin | Aug 11, 2026 | Blog Posts, Economic Empowerment, Featured Home 1 | 0 Comments

Digital technologies have become an increasingly important part of economic inclusion programs because they can connect women to financial services, markets, and...

Strengthening Market Access and Economic REsilience for Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs in Chiapas

by Trickle Up | Aug 7, 2026 | Blog Posts, Economic Empowerment, Featured Home 1 | 0 Comments

Chiapas, Mexico – Trickle Up, with the support of local partners Kip Tik and El Buen Socio, has launched an 18-month project to strengthen the economic resilience of...

Access Is Only the Beginning: Five Lessons on Women’s Digital Agency

by Aude de Montesquiou | Aug 5, 2026 | Blog Posts, Economic Empowerment, Featured Home 1 | 0 Comments

For years, digital inclusion efforts have focused on expanding access: more phones, more connectivity, and more women online. These investments have been essential, but...

Beyond the Smartphone: What Rural Women Have Taught Us About Digital Inclusion

by Purna Roy Chowdhury | Jul 30, 2026 | Blog Posts, Economic Empowerment, Featured Home 1 | 0 Comments

My work often takes me to places that many would describe as remote, underserved, and difficult to reach. Yet, these are the places where I have witnessed the most...

Are We Designing Digital Inclusion Around the Wrong Assumptions?

by Trickle Up | Jul 21, 2026 | Blog Posts, Economic Empowerment, Featured Home 3 | 0 Comments

For many of us, a smartphone is an extension of daily life. We carry it everywhere and rely on it for communication, work, banking, information, and access to services....

Why Access Isn’t Enough: Rethinking How We Design Digital Solutions

by Trickle Up | Jul 14, 2026 | Blog Posts, Economic Empowerment, Featured Home 1 | 0 Comments

By Wendy Chamberlin (Senior Advisor, Climate and Market Linkages, Trickle Up) and Babitha George (Partner, Quicksand) For nearly two decades, discussions about digital...

Why Access Alone Doesn’t Create Agency

by Lauren Hendricks | Jul 9, 2026 | Blog Posts, Economic Empowerment, Featured Home 2 | 0 Comments

For more than a decade, governments, donors, NGOs, and the private sector have invested heavily in closing the digital divide around the world by expanding...

Cultivating Opportunity: How Mushroom Farming Helped Baidi Pahadin Build a New Source of Income 

by Trickle Up | Jun 30, 2026 | Blog Posts, Economic Empowerment, Featured Home 1 | 0 Comments

In the village of Bara Kachna in Jharkhand, India, Baidi Pahadin and her husband, Surja Pahariya, faced many challenges in securing a stable livelihood. As members...

Turning Today’s Savings into Tomorrow’s Opportunities

by Trickle Up | Jun 16, 2026 | Blog Posts, Economic Empowerment, Featured Home 1 | 0 Comments

In the remote village of Daharlangi in Jharkhand, Dharmi Pahadin and her husband, Vaida Pahadiya, worked hard to provide for their family. Belonging...

Other Projects

Economic Empowerment

To get their livelihoods off the ground, Trickle Up provides seed capital for new and diverse income-generating activities and microenterprises.

Coaching

Coaching is a key part of the Graduation Approach, which is the foundation for Trickle Up programs. Households work with coaches to plan for the future and build key life skills.

Social Inclusion & Agency

Savings groups provide women a space to collaborate and problem-solve as a group, strengthening community ties and increasing financial inclusion.