Grab says 189,000 women and PWD driver-partners earned income on its platform, up 40% year on year

Grab’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures describe driver and delivery-partner welfare as central to the platform’s stated approach to sustainable and inclusive growth, branded internally as GrabForGood. In its most recent reporting period, the company said more than 189,000 women and persons with disabilities (PWD) earned an income as driver-partners on its platform, a 40% increase year on year.

Grab has set a forward target of enabling 300,000 women and PWD driver-partners to earn an income annually through its platform by 2030. Alongside earnings access, the company has rolled out a Women Passengers Preferred matching feature, which it says more than half of eligible women driver-partners had activated as of the most recent reporting date, contributing to a 1.35-times increase in women-to-women trip matching.

As a gig-economy platform rather than a traditional employer, Grab’s CSR reporting is inseparable from live debates over platform worker classification and protections across Southeast Asia — its welfare metrics are worth reading alongside, not instead of, that wider policy conversation.