Knowledge Resources
This compendium on “Millets Mainstreaming in India, Asian and African Countries-A Compendium of Inspiring Stories from Field” is the outcome of NITI Aayog’s collaboration with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to map and support exchange of best practices for millets mainstreaming in Asia and Africa. The initiative supports the documentation of good practices, lessons learnt and presents an opportunity of experience sharing amongst Asian and African
developing countries.
, 2024
India has shown commendable progress in eliminating vaccine-preventable diseases through robust immunisation programmes.
, 2024
Pomegranate growers in Maharashtra have much to thank farmers of Satmane village for their pioneering initiative to make orchards climate-resilient.
To facilitate investment, Indian corporations, being no exception to the global ESG surge, are increasingly adapting themselves to accommodate the contemporary ESG practices, while reclaiming the ones deep-rooted in the origin of Indian corporate law.
, 2023
To boost farmer incomes significantly, we need to revamp the current FPO model by developing market-ready products and embracing decentralised manufacturing.
, 2023
Entrepreneurs working in rural India are the unsung heroes of our economy, driven by passion and vision, and they just know how to get things done. One such remarkable entrepreneur is Ekta Aggarwal, the founder of the Pagdandi Foundation. Ekta hails from Dehradun in Uttarakhand and has been working in 13 villages in a Gram Panchayat since 2019. Pagdandi Foundation works on the factors that lead to migration, impacting education and livelihood.
In this context, clean energy technologies have emerged as a vital catalyst for ESG excellence, backed by compelling data that highlights their pivotal role in reducing environmental impact, fostering job creation, engaging with communities, and promoting ethical governance.
, 2023
Long focused on health, sanitation and education, corporate social responsibility (CSR) spending is now taking a serious turn toward environment protection.
Singh Rahul Sunilkumar, 2023
Diverse forests with mixed species store 70 per cent more carbon than monocultures which have only one variety, new research has found.
In an era dominated by the clamour of urban think tanks and narratives driven by the Global North, the tenacity of India’s rural communities is often overlooked. Yet, to genuinely grasp the essence of climate resilience, one must explore India’s villages and discover the unwavering determination, startlingly inventive solutions and relentless spirit of rural women.
, 2023
UNESCO New Delhi Regional Office launched the fifth edition of its annual flagship report, Seeds of Change – UNESCO 2023 State of the Education Report for India on Education to address Climate Change.
, 2023
Taking forward the country’s approach to climate change, sustainability and promotion of eco-conscious actions, the environment ministry has notified two key initiatives – the Green Credit Programme (GCP) and the Ecomark Scheme – to encourage environmentally friendly practices by people across the country.
In recent years, the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) landscape in India has undergone significant transformation. ESG principles have moved from being mere buzzwords to becoming integral components of corporate strategy and governance.
, 2023
Carving a future of tremendous prosperity will require us to let go of paradigmatic entrepreneurship and make sustainability an indispensable element of business.
, 2023
Philanthropy funds nurture innovative ideas for social good; CSR funds help roll out projects, and impact investments help ventures scale up for a change in society.
A latest report —“Volunteering in 100 Top Companies in India” by India Welfare Trust outlines several benefits and identifies volunteering trends across leading companies across different sectors in India.
World Bank, 2023
The report, Digital-in-Health: Unlocking the Value for Everyone, was launched today during the G20 Health Ministers Meeting in Gandhinagar, India.
, 2023
Early warning systems (EWS) can improve resilience against climate-related hazards by providing information for early action. However, to be effective, EWS must incorporate aspects of resilient systems. This study attempts to assess the effectiveness of nationally operated EWS and multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) in mitigating the impacts of hydrometeorological hazards with a focus on floods and cyclones in India.
Community engagement is not a mere public relations exercise, it is a strategic imperative that creates shared value for businesses and societies they operate in
Praveen Tiwari, 2023
In a world grappling with water scarcity and growing environmental concerns, effective management of this invaluable resource has become paramount for businesses striving for sustainable growth.
Aryan Kaushal, 2023
India needs to foster the integration of spatial computing into education to capitalise on its transformative benefits
Climate change, identified by the World Health Organization as the biggest health threat of the 21st century, has wide-ranging impacts on human health and well-being. These include direct effects like heatwaves from rising temperatures, and indirect effects such as respiratory disorders from air pollution.
Shagun, 2023
Interventions focusing on improving crop productivity alone, such as watershed development and enhancing access to irrigation, had a limited impact on the overall resilience of the farming system. However, climate resilience indicators improved when these productivity-enhancing interventions were combined with those related to water management, soil health and livelihood diversification, a new research drawn from data across 15 years in the drought-prone Jalna district of Maharashtra has found.
Kriti Pradhan, 2023
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) is a framework for evaluating the sustainability and ethical impact of a company’s operations. ESG factors include environmental impacts, social responsibility, and governance practices. Over the years, ESG has become increasingly important and has been receiving increased attention and recognition for its significant impact on public health and well-being.
Nearly 60% of teachers say that interacting with AI systems will be a key skill required for jobs in the future, however many students don’t feel prepared with the skills required for the 21st century workforce.
World Health Organization (WHO), 2023
The 2023 edition reviews more than 50 health-related indicators from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and WHO’s Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW 13).
Abhishek Jain, Wase Khalid, and Shruti Jindal, 2023
Key stakeholders are now starting to recognise the potential of using decentralised renewable energy (DRE) technologies such as dryers, silk-reeling machines, vertical fodder grow units, and others to transform India’s rural economy. But several questions on their market potential, viability and impact are also emerging. This study examines and answers these questions.
Women self-help groups in the Lohaghat tehsil have revived the traditional occupation of ironworking, dominated in the past by men.
Nishtha Relan and Mukti Masih, 2023
Facilitating varied interventions to improve the health of the village commons.
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 2023
The State of the World’s Children 2023 examines what needs to happen to ensure that every child, everywhere is protected against vaccine-preventable diseases. In the report, India is ranked as one of the countries with the highest vaccine confidence.
The latest climate science is clear: Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) is still possible. But to avoid the worst climate impacts, global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will need to drop by nearly half by 2030 and ultimately reach net zero.
Swasti Pachauri, 2023
Self-help groups bring about socio-economic empowerment of women by providing access to income-generating opportunities. Focus should now be on improving their political representation
International Labour Organization (ILO)–United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 2023
This second joint ILO-Unicef report on social protection for children outlines the devastating impact of a lack of social protection on child poverty, health, education, nutrition, child marriage and child labour.
The central government will work to decentralise food security by combining the traditional knowledge system of local communities on millets with the scientific knowledge of the universities, said Manoj Ahuja, secretary, Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
Samridhi Diwan, 2023
Combining private sector initiatives and government policies synergistically can lead to gender empowerment.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Food Programme (WFP), 2023
Based on the most comprehensive and up-to-date data, this report provides the first overview of the extent to which countries have school health and nutrition (SHN) policies and programmes in place.
This report explores the evolution of mHealth services, analyses the relationship between technology and access to mHealth and discusses factors that affect the usability and acceptability of mHealth among users. India currently stands at a critical policy juncture, where the National Health Authority is actively working towards developing a network-based, interoperable healthcare ecosystem. The report also provides valuable and timely insights about India’s rapidly evolving digital healthcare ecosystem.
, 2023
The global population hit the 8 Billion mark on November 15, with India poised to surpass China as the world’s most populous country shortly. A large population can be both a boon and a challenge. This is particularly true of India with its vast geography and many social divides – between the rich and the poor, the urban and rural, and the educated and uneducated. In a country of such contrasts the demographic dividend needs to be managed carefully to create an equitable society and to ensure that the economic benefits of growth reach the maximum number of people, particularly those living in rural areas.
Aruna Raghuram, 2023
Bengaluru resident and design consultant Gracy Elezebeth has been turning old, used wood left behind from pulled down buildings into beautiful and sustainable furniture. She shares how she has carried on this work for almost two decades.
This publication offers a synthesis of the major factors at play in the global food and agricultural landscape. Statistics are presented in four thematic chapters, covering the economic importance of agricultural activities, inputs, outputs and factors of production, their implications for food security and nutrition and their impacts on the environment.
Inderjeet Singh, 2022
Corporate boards are grappling with the implications of climate change on their businesses. This is primarily around how emerging risks and opportunities may reframe their activities, strategies, and value chains. The expectation of regulators and other stakeholders has added to the expectations around non-financial disclosures.
Sarah-Jane Littleford, 2022
It’s not altruism but a necessary component of any successful business plan: it may even help mitigate investment risks and boost corporate profitability.
Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD), host-specific vector-borne viral (pox) disease of domestic cattle and Asian water buffalo, has been ravaging cattle populations throughout India after it was reported for the first time in India (Odisha) at the end of 2019.
, 2022
Growing vegetable crops in covered low tunnels, trenches and unique greenhouses that protect their plants from the hostile elements, women farmers of Changthang, Ladakh take up modern farming to reap huge dividends.
he 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index Report “Unpacking deprivation bundles to reduce multidimensional poverty” finds that reducing poverty at scale is possible and unveils new ‘poverty profiles’ that can offer a breakthrough in development efforts to tackle the interlinked aspects of poverty. 41.5 crore people exited poverty in India during the 15-year period between 2005-06 and 2019-21, states this global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
, 2022
The revival of millet farming has been tackling malnutrition and improving the livelihoods of Kutia Kondh tribespeople in Odisha state, in eastern India.
, 2022
In a yearly ritual forest-dwelling Gujjars migrate to a partially dried-up dam in Uttarakhand where their cattle graze with plenty of water and fodder around, and the farmers supply milk to nearby towns.
Bipin Kadam has built a robot to help the girl have food; Goa State Innovation Council providing financial support to improve the machine.
, 2022
Involving women self-help groups in the public distribution of food in Madhya Pradesh is strengthening food security, according to a development worker with Transform Rural India Foundation.
United Nations Children’s Fund. In collaboration with Sanitation and Water for All (SWA), Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and IRC Water and Sanitation Centre, The Netherlands, 2022
UNICEF has launched a new guide on financing water, sanitation and hygiene in a bid to expand critically needed services to millions worldwide.
Omkar Sathe and Sahil Deo, 2022
Open Digital Telehealth Initiative will not only aid the pace of growth of healthcare services across India but will also help deliver a wide set of public health goals.
Roshni Chakrabarty, 2022
Dismayed at the lack of financial literarcy in India, especially in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, Gurgaon boy Aryan Jain decided to build a free financial education app for the masses.
National Rainfed Area Authority, Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, 2022
Livestock is one of the most important sub-sectors of the Indian agricultural economy providing livelihood options to the rural population. The sector accounts fora share of 4 per cent of the nation’s total, and 26 per cent of the agriculture economy.
Britta Augsburg, Bansi Malde, Harriet Olorenshaw and Zaki Wahhaj, 2022
Tammy Chang, and Jonathan Todres, 2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic extends into a third year, experts have gained a much better understanding of its consequences for the health and development of children and adolescents.
, 2022
Farmers benefit by distributing seeds produced from the high quality foundation seeds that the Government of Madhya Pradesh supplies at a subsidised rate.
Ramesh Chand, Pramod Joshi, and Shyam Khadka2022
This book provides multiple perspectives on agri-issues by a set of renowned authors. It focuses on the transformative shift needed for Indian agriculture in the next decade (2021–2030) and promotes approaching this change through eight broad areas.
, 2022
By learning to code and tinker with salvaged electronic items, children in rural Odisha are getting hands-on learning, fostering curiosity and honing their natural scientific innovation to grasp lessons beyond the curriculum.
2022
Using 2012-2018 Indian administrative data on schools and ASER (Annual Status of Education Report) data, this article shows that higher female representation in School Management Committees is associated with higher school quality, measured in terms of number of teachers hired, qualification of teachers, academic resources, student enrolment, and learning outcomes.
Pranav Agarwal, 2022
Ever since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, our lives and the way we work have changed. Whether it is our ever-increasing reliance on technology, newfound focus on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or growing concerns for team and overall wellbeing, a paradigm shift is taking place in the corporate culture.
2022
The pragmatic policy environment, presence of an already thriving informal sector and the waste economy gives India an inherent advantage for the paradigm shift.
This publication presents an analysis of the priorities in Union Budget 2022-23, both on public expenditure and resource mobilisation front in the context of the ongoing pandemic and key developments pertaining to social and economic challenges before the country.
2022
Productivity-enhancing technology adoption in agriculture, which makes workers available for other economic sectors, has long been considered essential for economic development. Based on a field experiment among 7,000 farmers in Karnataka, this article shows that mechanisation lowers supervision needs for hired workers in stages of production other than the one being mechanised, and family workers freed from those tasks engage in non-agricultural activities.
A once drought-stricken village in Maharashtra today is full of “lakhpatis” thanks to cultivating and creatively selling the “desi rose” – known for its intense fragrance and use in rituals and festivities.
Ashok Gulati, Kavery Ganguly, and Harsh Wardhan, 2022
This open access book provides a clear holistic conceptual framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability and access to finance) to analyse the efficiency of value chains of high value agricultural commodities in India.
2022
The complete shutdown of educational institutions from offering physical sessions was a big dampener in the initial days of the lockdown in 2020. Institutes and students, however, are hopeful of a better 2022.
GiveIndia poll shows 85% of respondents are bullish about the role of charitable giving in tackling India’s social challenges according to GiveIndia’s annual Giving Survey. And with eighteen months of living in a pandemic, not surprisingly, access to basic healthcare and treatment for diseases are top-of-the-mind problems for almost 50% of respondents.
Madhumita Paul2021
Investing just $0.84 per person per year could save close to seven million lives, avoid 10 million cases of heart disease, stroke and add a total of 50 million years of healthy life by 2030 in low and lower-middle- income countries, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report.
2021
Around 3,000 farmers and migrant returnees in Majuli – Assam’s flood-ravaged and eroding river island – reap rewards from growing climate resilient mustard.
2021
As India recovers from the pandemic and the new National Education Policy is implemented, reliable data on ‘learning outcomes’ will be crucial. In this post, Johnson and Parrado assess the reliability of India’s two main sources of learning outcomes data – the government-run National Achievement Survey and the independently conducted Annual Status of Education Report – and highlight the pressing need for better learning outcomes data.
2021
The gold they pan for does not bring lustre to their lives. Yet, with work hard to come by and limited water for agriculture, villagers keep looking for gold.
2021
In remote and barren terrains people should be helped in turning adverse conditions to their advantage, rather than pursuing unviable dreams.
Sumanta Kar 2021
Philanthropy goes by many names. Call it charity or corporate social responsibility, but the underlying idea is about making a financial or in-kind contribution to a humanitarian cause without self-interest. This concept is not new to Indian society. In fact, there is no culture or religion that has failed to emphasize people’s need to contribute for the needy.
2021
After years struggling on paltry incomes, growing mushrooms provides West Bengali women better livelihoods and nutrition – and gives urban India more varieties
Vivek Gupta 2021
Haryana’s groundwater extraction is much higher than the state’s annual extractable resources. Government encourages farmers to switch from water-intensive paddy to reduce depletion
2021
The edtech firms have prepared modules to teach students and even train teachers in new skills and methods away from rote learning.
For decades, corporates have talked about interlinked goals promoting people, planet and profits but rarely found the opportunity or will to walk the talk. When corporate social responsibility (CSR) became a statutory obligation through the Companies Act 2013, the needle moved somewhat, but not quite enough. All of that is poised to change, in part thanks to the recent sustainability reporting norms from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) that mandate an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) overview.
2021
Our villages, for the most part remain backward and bereft of opportunities. This is in spite of several initiatives by successive Indian governments to promote economic development and bring in better livelihood opportunities in the rural hinterland.
The Covid-19 pandemic caught the world by surprise, spreading like wildfire, causing fatal illnesses and economic hardship to individuals and organizations alike. The pandemic’s spread has resulted in widespread socioeconomic disruption, halting supply chains, trade, the ways businesses and organizations access resources and other normal business activities.
WHO, 2021
The World health statistics report is the World Health Organization’s (WHO) annual compilation of the most recent available data on health and health-related indicators for its 194 Member States. The 2021 edition features the latest data for 50+ health-related indicators from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and WHO Triple Billion targets. The 2021 report additionally focuses on the human toll and impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
UNFPA, 2021
We have the inherent right to choose what we do with our body, to ensure its protection and care, to pursue its expression. The quality of our lives depends on it. In fact, our lives themselves depend on it.
UNICEF, 2021
Today, 1.42 billion people – including 450 million children – live in areas of high or extremely high water vulnerability. Less than 3 per cent of the world’s water resources is freshwater, and it is growing increasingly scarce. This document outlines what drives water insecurity, the impact on children, and the actions we need to take now to achieve water security for all.
Deepak David, 2021
2021
With the right support, for-profit enterprises are critical in achieving the SDGs, as they have the potential to create and implement large-scale solutions that can bring positive change for people and our planet.
Andrews, Colin; de Montesquiou, Aude; Arevalo Sanchez, Ines; Dutta, Puja Vasudeva; Paul, Boban Varghese; Samaranayake, Sadna; Heisey, Janet; Clay, Timothy; Chaudhary, Sarang, 2021
The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2021 sheds light on one of the most intractable challenges faced by development policy makers and practitioners: transforming the economic lives of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people.
, 2020
The 2020 Human Development Report (HDR) doubles down on the belief that people’s agency and empowerment can bring about the action we need if we are to live in balance with the planet in a fairer world. It shows that we are at an unprecedented moment in history, in which human activity has become a dominant force shaping the planet.
Team Social Xleration, 2020
As the country picks up pieces and gets back to the normal from the unprecedented impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, we witnessed some great use of imagination to ensure that life continued even in the abnormal times. This is also true of school education in India, especially the rural regions. While the majority of the schools in India largely remain shut, the education and teaching community in many places came up with creative non-tech learning methods to surmount the challenge of low internet penetration.
Shagun Sabarwal, 2020
Lack of integration into the existing social protection system exacerbates the poor’s vulnerabilities, leaving them without adequate support structures during a crisis. In this note, Shagun Sabarwal and Maximillian Lohnert discuss how investing in a livelihood project for the ultra-poor in Bihar proved crucial for extending support as well as spreading awareness when the Covid-19 pandemic hit.
, 2020
UNESCO, New Delhi, has launched the ‘State of the Education Report for India 2020: Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)’ with over 400 attendees including representatives from the government, civil society, academia, partners and youth being present in the virtual event.
Dheeraj Kapoor, 2020
More than 10 million migrants were forced to head back to their Home States in the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic in India after losing their jobs. Many concerned people including young entrepreneurs, professionals, students, as well as state governments and a CSR program have stepped forward to develop employment apps targeted at migrants to help them get jobs again.
, 2020
Bihar’s Nawada district usually makes the headlines for Naxal violence. Recently, a 19-year-old woman from the district has been feted for finding a solution to a crisis that had been brewing since the start of the lockdown in March — access to sanitary pads in rural India.
, 2020
Social infrastructure projects are foundational assets that support the quality of life of a nation, region or city and go beyond basic economic functions to make a community an appealing place to live.
Reshma Anand, 2020
The pandemic is not the first crisis that the world has seen, nor the last. We need a manifesto of possibilities if we are to rebuild lives.
, 2020
Making business a lot more democratic could help us get the private-public balance right.
, 2020
Those of us with seats at policymaking or grant-making tables have a responsibility to speak up and amplify the work of others. With the imminent shrinking of resources, there is a greater urgency for government, industry, CSOs and citizenry to work as collaborators with shared goals and innovative approaches.
Dheeraj Kapoor, 2020
The long past and persistence of the practice of manual scavenging remain a big blot in our country. The efforts undertaken have unfortunately not provided the desired results. The advent of ‘Made in India’ robots capable of cleaning sewers and septic tanks provide a glimmer of hope of rooting out this abominable practice.
Emiliana Vegas and Rebecca Winthrop, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in at least one positive thing: a much greater appreciation for the importance of public schools. As parents struggle to work with their children at home due to school closures, public recognition of the essential caretaking role schools play in society has skyrocketed.
, 2020
The pandemic has surfaced issues we probably never considered important till now. How we approach the challenges and opportunities as citizens, leaders and practitioners will determine what our world will look post-COVID-19 in relation to corporate social responsibility.
Rukmini Banerji, 2020
By calling it the greatest equaliser, and laying out clear learning targets, the National Education Policy does the right thing. Build on it
A working group at capital markets regulator Sebi has brought out a welcome report on the social stock exchange (SSE), a platform for fundraising for social enterprises.
Amit Khurana, 2020
A major constituent of the present proliferation in every sector – technology has enabled the corporate sector to grow exponentially. Taking into account the CSR of an organization, the integration of technology has changed the way it works.
Dheeraj Kapoor, 2020
Lack of proper hand hygiene puts people at risk of various hand borne diseases such as COVID-19, diarrhea, and other infections. Nudges that positively influence people in adopting thorough hand hygiene practices can prevent people from contracting such diseases.
Five things that companies could consider doing in order to make meaningful impact in their communities.
Sneha Joshi, 2020
A shareholder owns the shares of the company. A stakeholder is a member of group that has interest in the company’s business for multiple reasons apart from just stock performance and can affect or be affected by the business.
Arup Chatterjee, 2020
The new normal needs relevant and uniform corporate disclosures like those advanced by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, the Global Reporting Initiative, and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.
Covid-19 has brought an end to the ‘greed is good’ era. There will now be a new economic world order in which the only thing that will matter is an inclusive and sustainable world.
Vinay Dutta & Shallini Taneja, 2020
For this to materialise, subject matter experts and executives directly engaged in formulating and implementing CSR plans are regularly invited to share their experiences with students.
Dheeraj Kapoor, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought life to a crippling halt across the globe. In India, corporates besides CSR funds are contributing by repurposing and diversifying their products to combat the pandemic. This strategy has the possibility of advancing the way corporates meet their social goals
It was sometime in the first week of March that I was conferring the economic scenario with a CSR head at one of the top banks in India. At that time, there were quite a handful of COVID-19 cases in India, but it had not taken hold of our consciousness, the way it has now. During the interaction, the CSR head grimaced that he was feeling the heat to curtail the CSR spend, due to the lackadaisical performance of the company in light of the economic slowdown.
Mukesh Rawat, 2020
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in 13 states and Union Territories provided meals to more people than what their respective state governments did during the nationwide lockdown that started on March 25 in the wake of the rapidly spreading novel coronavirus pandemic. According to a reply submitted by the central government in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a total of 84,26,509 people were provided meals across the country during the lockdown, which is set to end next week.
Dheeraj Kapoor, 2020
Few Shining Stars in Women’s Sports
Indian shuttler PV Sindhu has been creating ripples in the badminton circuit since her silver medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics. In 2019, she added another feather to her cap as she became the first Indian to claim Badminton World Championship held at Basel in August 2019. Sindhu is joined by other Indian women’s sporting personalities, who have brought glory to the country.
The United Nations (UN) has set interconnected water and sanitation sector related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in 2015 with a broad and ambitious vision for the next 15 years. SDG 6 calls upon all nations to “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”. It places water and sanitation at the core of sustainable development, cutting across sectors and regions. There are strong synergies between the targets of Goal 6 and the other SDGs.
Sulagna Datta, 2020
At Sattva, we’ve been talking about CSR 2.0 for a while now. What does it really mean? Times have changed since corporate organizations partnered with non-profits for one-off expenses, supplying essentials, distributing books, or providing aid or shelter during disasters. Over the last few years, bolstered by the CSR law and its amendments, we’ve seen a transformational shift in the way corporates engage with non-profits.
Sharada Balasubramanian, 2020
As we commemorate International Women’s Week, young tribal women in remote villages pursue vocational education towards their livelihood, in a college in familiar surrounds at timings that suit them.
The 2020 edition of the World Water Development Report (WWDR 2020) entitled ‘Water and Climate Change’, released on World Water Day, aims at helping the water community to tackle the challenges of climate change and informing the climate change community about the opportunities that improved water management offers in terms of adaptation and mitigation.
Professor N.V. Varghese, 2019-20
Indian higher education system has traditionally been a slow-growing state-supported sector. The gross enrolment ratio (GER) was low at 8.1 per cent in 2000. The adoption of market-friendly reforms in this century relieved the sector from relying on public funding for its expansion. The proliferation of private institutions and multiplication of student numbers resulted in the massification of the sector.
Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, 2020
Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA) brings out an analysis of Union Budget soon after its presentation in Parliament every year. The objective of this publication is to facilitate an informed discussion on the Budget, particularly around the social sectors, agriculture, rural development, employment and public provisioning for the marginalised sections of the population.
Overcoming taboos and becoming more knowledgeable about abundant local foods, malnourished Kondh people in Odisha are bringing diversity to their food baskets through backyard kitchen gardens
Abhijay Arora, 2020
Home to one-sixth of the world’s population, India is bound to play a leading role in determining the global success of the SDGs. By 2030, India will have the largest number of young people in the globe, a population size which will be a boon only if these young people are skilled enough to join the workforce.
UNESCO, 2020
69 million new teachers – this is what the world needs to guarantee quality education for all by 2030. To put this into perspective, this means that nearly every person in Thailand today would need to become a teacher.
As we prepare to step into the 2020s, we asked leaders from the social sector to tell us what they would count as the most critical shifts in the development discourse over the last 10 years. And what conversations they would like to see more of in the next decade.
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), 2019
The World Giving Index (WGI) is an annual report published by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), using data gathered by Gallup and ranks countries in the world according to how charitable they are. The first report was produced in 2010 and this year to mark 10 years of WGI, CAF has released a special 10th anniversary edition of WGI.
Sattva, 2019
From September 2018 to April 2019, Sattva undertook a first-of-its-kind study on the everyday giving ecosystem in India, with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies. The study is a first attempt at obtaining a deeper look into the everyday giving market and ecosystem in its entirety.
One of the ways to ensure education quality in schools is to create education facilities that are child-centred and provide a safe, inclusive, and effective learning environment for all. In this post, the writers review the research on learning environments and discuss how school facilities can affect children’s learning outcomes.
Samir Shah & Aparajita Singh, 2019
In India, around 85% of the farmers are small and marginal farmers. The agricultural sector in India is hampered by high transaction costs and low access to credit and agricultural produce markets. There are several legal entities which aim to help farmers reap benefits of economies of scale via aggregation like farmer cooperatives, farmers clubs, farmer interest groups, etc. Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) are one such farmers’ aggregate.
Swagata Yadavar, 2018
If a girl in India studies for 12 years or more–till the age of 18–she is less likely to have teenage pregnancy, less likely to have shorter interval between children and less likely to have more than two children during her lifetime, according to the latest national health data.
The First Five Year Plan of India accorded high importance to healthcare, especially primary healthcare, by regarding health to be fundamental to national progress in the form of a resource for economic development.
Research Group | Azim Premji Foundation, 2017
Azim Premji Foundation has been working towards improving equity and quality in the government school system for over fifteen years. Facilitating teacher professional development has been at the core of this work. Working with teachers over these many years, one of the many lessons for the Foundation has been that teachers need spaces to share experiences, collaborate with, and learn from each other.
Indian Council of Medical Research Public Health Foundation of India Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 2017
For some time now, health planners in India have been seeking better availability of disease burden data and trends at subnational levels. These are necessary for informed health policy and programming at the state and district levels, a prerequisite to improve population health based on local trends.
Inadequately understood and often over-simplified, the livelihoods issue demands a holistic approach that addresses the many factors at play.
Neeti Biyani, 2016
In September 2015, heads of States and representatives of 193 countries assembled at the United Nations General Assembly to give shape to the Post2015 Development Agenda: ‘Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ or the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).