MFI Information:

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

Relevant links:

• 1 Page poster with summary of MF4DW intervention and MFI profile
• BASIX India: Microfinance and Microentreprises Productivity: An impact evaluation of a client training on productivity and increasing work place safety.