Solving for Water Security in a Micro-Watershed: Modeling Environmental Sustainability of Community Drinking Water Solutions in India This field insight describes how Safe Water Network's Water Resource Management team in India measured the hydrologic footprint of multiple Stations in a micro...
Abstract Background: Maternal and child undernutrition have adverse consequences for pregnancy outcomes and child morbidity and mortality, and they are associated with low educational attainment, economic productivity as an adult, and human wellbeing. ‘Nutrition-sensitive’ agriculture programs could...
Data collected from India indicates that young women, when given options and opportunities such as education, prefer to wait longer periods of time before childbirth, rather than begin this process directly after marriage. This study analyzes the various influences on this proclivity for delayed...
The concepts, process and benefits of integrating gender equality issues have not always been sufficiently understood and incorporated into UNICEF’s programming across South Asia. This toolkit is a step towards strengthening the institutional and individual capacity to undertake gender mainstreaming...
Discrimination against women and girls is a pervasive and long-running phenomenon that characterises Indian society at every level. India’s progress towards gender equality, measured by its position on rankings such as the Gender Development Index has been disappointing, despite fairly rapid rates...
The India Innovation Index (III) 2019 comes at a time when innovation has become a subject of significant concern for policymakers in the country. With India among the fastest growing economies in the world, the next big challenge is to sustain that level of growth for a longer period of time. An...
The thesis presents a study on the inequalities in drinking water access and its consequent impact on drinking water security in three peri-urban villages around the city of Hyderabad in India namely, Gagillapur, Chintalcheru and Erdhanoor. It explains the existing drinking water situation and the...