UNICEF India in collaboration with IRC, AKF, Water Aid and WHO organised a Webinar on "Handwashing with Soap: Technologies and Innovations" on 12th October 2020 as part of 3 WASH Webinar Series on Global Handwashing Day (GHD) 2020. The Webinar explicitly covered possible opportunities, identifying...
The recent National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in India comes 34 years after the previous policy, announced in 1986 and revised in 1992. It took six years of work and consultations with thousands of educators, policymakers, and members of civil society. It was truly a democratic effort and is...
Literature suggests that for countries with already low learning outcomes, high dropout rates, low resilience to shock and inadequate infrastructure to build back better the impact on education will be felt even more deeply. A total of 320 million learners in India have been adversely affected by...
Countries around the world are experiencing the highest recorded level of school disruption in history because of COVID - 19. UNESCO estimates that 290.5 million students are out of school at this time due to school shutdowns and government- mandated lockdowns. Through our project, we explore the...
This article examined the prevalence of malnutrition alongside stunting, anemia, being overweight or being underweight among women and children at both the state and district levels in India. The authors found a prevalence of dual burdens between malnutrition and anemia, stunting, and being...
Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande interviews Katherine Semrau, an epidemiologist who leads the Better Birth program at Ariadne Labs, about how to improve maternal and newborn health worldwide in a special edition of PS Editors’ Podcast. To find out more, click here.
This brief documents the work of the State Nutrition Missions in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, identifying lessons learned and policy recommendations moving forward. Results for Development partnered with Amaltas Consulting and UNICEF-India to deliver this brief. Background India is home to about a...
Over the past decade, UNICEF has partnered with the Government of India (GoI) to support the implementation of the Facility Based Newborn Care (FBNC) programme, to reduce newborn deaths. This independent, formative evaluation aimed to: (1) assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and...