The financial lives of platform workers: A diaries study in Bengaluru, India
The study explores the financial lives of platform workers and finding answers to the following questions: do platform workers face volatility in their income and expenses, and how much do their earnings and expenditures vary on a day-to-day basis; how long do they work to earn as much as they would like to; whether and where they save and borrow; what strategies do they adopt to manage their money to meet their day-to-day expenses, raise lump-sums, deal with and recover from shocks; what social protection benefits do they have access to; what their financial goals are; and what barriers exist, if at all, in their pursuit of those goals.
A customer-centric framework to implement data protection in financial services
Dvara Research, with the Data Security Council of India (DSCI), co-developed two privacy handbooks directed at FSPs in the insurance and banking sector. The handbooks help FSPs implement data protection in a customer-centric manner throughout the data lifecycle, including in legacy systems.
How mental models interplay with consent: Unpacking challenges to informed consent
This blog is about a behavioural study conducted jointly by Dvara Research and Final Mile to uncover mental models that may nudge customers to disengage with consent screens.
Do UPI-fraud-awareness campaigns work?
Proposal for an outcome-based survey to test the effectiveness of UPI-fraudawareness campaign.
Are Fraud-awareness Campaigns Effective? Measuring the effectiveness of fraud-awareness campaigns and proposing recommendations for enhancing it
This study presents the design of an Outcome Based Survey crafted to evaluate the effect that UPI-fraud-awareness campaigns have in reducing individuals’ propensity to engage with fraudulent communication.
Unpacking user-centricity of the MFIN Customer Redress Mechanism (MFIN-CGRM) Findings and recommendations
MFIN India and Dvara Research partner to gather insights on users’ experience of navigating the MFIN-Customer Grievance Redress Mechanism (MFIN-CGRM). The study deploys mixed methods — a primary survey of over 300 users, stakeholder interviews and desk research to understand the user-centricity of the MFIN-CGRM.
Recommendations Submitted to the Independent Expert Group for Strengthening the MDBs, under the G20
The SDG Agenda, the sovereign debt crisis and the climate crisis will need brave leadership from not just individual governments of both the global north and the south, but also groups such as the United Nations, the G20, G7 and others, to closely negotiate tough decisions that can have enough impact on the triple inequality – of wealth, carbon and power.
Designing Health Systems Based on Managed Competition
Managed competition is a theoretical concept for designing and regulating health insurance systems. Such systems can secure consumers’ interests by managing diverging incentives, instituting uniform regulations, equipping consumers to make informed choices, and creating a competitive environment tailored to rewarding those organisations that improve services to consumers.
Challenges in the delivery of Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY) and Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY)
This research brief aims to synthesize existing evidence on the performance of PMJJBY and PMSBY since their inception, the reasons for low participation in these schemes, and the barriers to their successful implementation.
Can Leveraging Social Capital Enhance Consumers’ Experience with Health Insurance?
When viewed from a consumer’s perspective, these challenges manifest at different stages of their journey with a health insurance program, beginning from the decision to enrol in a program and ending at the renewal stage. While tweaks to the design of the health insurance program or moving to a more integrated model of healthcare provision may help in this blog post, we explore the role that social capital can play in circumventing some of these challenges.
