Program Innovation

Business Playbook for MSME

Gender Inequality
Livelihood
Capacity Building
Training
Communication Tools

Client:

The objective of the playbook is to help the women entrepreneurs to navigate their business journeys by simplifying complex business essentials into simple easy-to-understand and interactive workbooks.

Topics Covered (Titles):

Topics Covered (Titles):

Topics Covered (Titles):

Compliance

Marketing & Sales

Financing & Accounting

Production & Distribution

Customer Service

Timeline: 4 months

Business Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs

Women entrepreneurs in the program were leading from the ground, but still lacked a few pragmatic knowledge of business essentials.


Tieing up with Grameen, we set out to understand their needs, ecosystem and challenges which helped us design tools to assist them in this role.

What did we do?

Pillars we built the playbook on business fundamentals

We made it accessible & physical

We made it visual & low-literacy friendly

We made it in local languages

Outcomes

Write 4-5 statements on the context and project.

Effective Program Implementation

Helped the field team deliver the program universally & scale it

Higher Adoption

Attracted more small business owners & enabled them to kickstart their journey

Encourage Independence

Reduced dependency on the field team by enabling easy access to information and resources

Immersion

Identifying topics & learnings to be included for each playbook 

Explore and Identify

Scoping the narrative & content by talking to the key stakeholders - Strategy Team, TG, Beneficiaries.

Ideate and Co-create

Defining the overall narrative & structure of the playbook. And defining the Visual Guide & Style 

Pilot and Testing

Workbooks were tested with Women chohort, digitally, using Whatsapp for a quick round of feedback.

Our Process

Components

The Playbook is your ultimate guide to translate your program strategy into action on the field, and helping you map out your blueprint for impact.
Unlock the power of behaviour science in your programs

Activities and Promts

Interactive approach to encourage learning

Concepts

Breaking down complex information for people with low-literacy

Mascot

A storytelling approach to make learning relatable

Read in Hindi

Read in English

Tools and Frameworks we used

The Behavior Design Framework is a structured approach that blends psychology, behavioral economics, and design to understand how people think and act. The goal? To create products, services, or environments that naturally guide people toward certain behaviors and make decisions easier and more intuitive!

Socio-Ecological Model(SEM) and the Behavioural Drivers Model (BDM)

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