NCAER, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), organised a one-day roundtable titled Building Inclusive Economies: Gender, Financial Inclusion, and the Platform Workforce on 08 December 2025 at the NCAER campus in New Delhi.

The event brought together a diverse group of stakeholders, including senior government and RBI officials, representatives of the ILO and its social partners, NCAER researchers, and platform aggregators. Discussions focused on the linkages between gender, financial inclusion, and social protection in the platform economy, with the aim of moving beyond broad frameworks to identify specific, actionable gender-responsive policy recommendations at the intersection of labour regulation, fintech-led innovation, and social protection.