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Prof. Janina Isabel Steinert and ECOVI team meet project partners in Jaipur, India

Prof. Dr. Janina Isabel Steinert, Ines Böhret, Anushree Dirangane, and Shruti Shukla attended a very productive team meeting in Jaipur, India, in December 2025. The meeting brought together the TUM team with Mansi Pawar, Jithin Jose and Vikas Choudhry from the Sambodhi Research and Communications Organisation and with and Rucha Vasumati Satish and Amartya Roy from VAYAM.
ECOVI-Team of TUM meets partner organisations Sambodhi Research and Communications and VAYAM. Picture Credit: Prof. Dr. Janina Isabel Steinert

Key project milestones the ECOVI project has reached until now:

  1. Co-created a culturally grounded, gender transformative couples-based programme to build family financial wellbeing, promote equitable gender norms, and reduce economic abuse

  2. Interviewed 2,250 wives and husbands across three Indian states (Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh)

  3. Trained teams of male and female gender trainers to deliver the programme, with implementation already ongoing in 2 out of 3 states

  4. Trained a research team of process evaluators to help us understand intervention uptake, participants engagement, and possible implementation challenges

What comes next:

  1. We will deliver the six programme sessions in 75 out of 150 randomly selected communities 

  2. We will collect both qualitative and quantitative data at endline to assess the programme's impact on financial wellbeing, spousal abuse, gender norms, household decision-making, and general wellbeing

The team is also thrilled to announce that the training manual for the couples-based programme "Let us Grow Together: Economic Wellbeing for Families" is now available as a CC BY 4.0 open access resource*. Access the manual and all training materials here.
*available in Hindi, Marathi, and Telugu upon request

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