BASIX-BSFL
Mission: Promote a large number of sustainable livelihoods, including for the rural poor and women, through the provision of financial services and technical assistance in an integrated manner.
Decent Work Area:
Productivity and Occupational safety and health (OSH)
Innovation:
Non-Financial Services: OSH and productivity training and close individual monitoring
Staff training of trainers on better productivity and increased work place safety (based on ILO’s WIND methodology) branded SWASTH
Client level training by Basix staff
Continuous individual on site monitoring
Results:
Positive results in safety and health at the workplace
Significant decrease in workplace illnesses and injuries (11%)
Increased safe work place habits: more clients having a first aid box
Improved working conditions
Reduced average daily work hours (-73 minutes)
Improved productivity
37 USD increase in the monthly income
Increase in the ability to cover costs (25%)
Increase in the adoption of new technologies and practises (to ease physical labour, reduce cost of inputs or increase yield) (54%)
Inconclusive results related to the longer term impact
BASIX India: Microfinance and Microentreprises Productivity: An impact evaluation of a client training on productivity and increasing work place safety.
