Enabling InfrastructureSafe and Affordable Housing, Childcare, Mobility

Redesigning housing, mobility, and governance infrastructure that unlock a woman's ability to enter and stay in the workforce.

Gender-disaggregated data (GDD) Based Governance

The underutilization of gender-disaggregated data limits targeted policy design. Udaiti partnered with the Government of Uttar Pradesh's Planning Department to institutionalize robust data frameworks through a dedicated Technical Support Unit.

The Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Index evaluates districts in UP across five domains, directly driving targeted Gender Action Plans to expand women's transit roles, increase ITI participation & accelerate MSME credit uptake.

Gender-disaggregated data (GDD) Based Governance

75 districts, 64 indicators, 26 departmentsThe WEE Index assesses all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh across five domains using 64 indicators spanning 26 line departments.

3,000 offers, 1,900 women3,000 women received job offers in bus driver & conductor roles, with 1,900 women taking up those opportunities.

Housing

Safe, affordable accommodation is not a welfare measure. It is essential economic infrastructure. Udaiti is helping shift the national conversation on women's housing from fragmented, scheme-based interventions to a strategic priority for economic growth and women's workforce participation.

Our work focuses on labour-intensive urban service sectors, where demand for women workers is growing rapidly, but long-term retention remains a challenge. A key barrier is the shortage of safe, affordable accommodation near places of work. By positioning housing as a critical workforce enabler, we help improve talent retention, expand women's geographic mobility, and support more inclusive labour markets.

~100 women, 4 districtsUdaiti consulted ITI students and early-career women across four districts in Uttar Pradesh to understand migration, family constraints, and accommodation needs.

1 of 3 contributorsSubmitted recommendations on working women's housing to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth & Sports. Udaiti was the only organisation consulted alongside two academicians.

Mobility

Can a free bus ticket rewrite a state's economic trajectory? To find out, Udaiti collaborated with Sambodhi Research to evaluate Punjab's free bus ride scheme for women, treating mobility as a primary catalyst for economic liberation.

The study isolates exactly how targeted transit subsidies lower the physical barriers keeping women from the workplace. By analyzing direct impacts on autonomy & job access, we have built a data-driven framework showing policymakers how to transform a popular public subsidy into a hyper-efficient, scalable engine for labor force participation.

Mobility = market accessSafe and affordable mobility is a core enabler of women’s economic participation because it determines whether women can access jobs, training, and markets beyond their immediate neighbourhoods.

3,000 commuters, 6 districtsSurveyed across Amritsar, Bathinda, Ludhiana, Hoshiarpur, Patiala, and Sri Muktsar Sahib.