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HEALTH
IBM and CARE India Partner to Demonstrate Power of Data to Improve Essential Medicine Supply Chain
"Where is the knowledge in information? Where is the wisdom in knowledge?" Bihar Principal Secretary Sanjay Kumar, IAS shared this guiding principle with CARE India and IBM Health Corps at the launch of their partnership to demonstrate the value of health data integration. Information isn’t lacking; rather data is not used to its fullest potential to help inform dec... Read More
Shashi Suman, Consultant, CARE India; Natalie E Dawe, Health Initiatives Manager, IBM 26-Sep-2018 910
INTERNATIONAL
Life as a humanitarian worker in South Sudan
When I first joined the humanitarian sector in 2013, I never thought it would become my passion. My journey in this sector started when I volunteered with a local NGO, as a college student, to help people who were displaced during the 2013 crisis in South Sudan. I spent nine months in an area called Raja doing nutrition assessments and when I finished, I had my h... Read More
Richard James 6-Sep-2018 505
DISASTER RESPONSE
PACE UP
One evening I received a call and was enquired about my interest in joining a Training of Trainers on Personal Advancement and Career Enhancement (PACE). My agreement was followed by the arrival of an over 500-page document about the PACE training programme, communication, problem-solving and decision making, time management, water; sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and f... Read More
Wasi Alam, M & E Officer, DMU 4-Sep-2018 378
LIVELIHOOD
Cropping Cycle, Food Insecurity and Nutrition Status among Small Holder Farmers: An Evidence from Tribal Dominated Region of India
TARINA action research findings presented at the 4th Asian Population Association (APA) Conference, Shanghai, China Asian Population Association (APA), the largest population and demography association in Asia drawing expertise from all over the globe and linkage with other professional associations has organized 4th Asian Pop... Read More
Anup Kumar Das 23-Jul-2018 453
LIVELIHOOD
Climate information services for resilient decision making by women smallholders in Chhattisgarh
CARE India with support from AXA has been implementing Where the Rain Falls (WtRF) project in 40 villages of Bagicha and Pathalgaon blocks of Jashpur district, Chhattisgarh. The project aims to increase the resilience of 3000 tribal women and their households to shocks and stresses around water and improve their access, control, and management of natural resources... Read More
Dr Pradip Kumar Mohapatra 18-Jul-2018 571
HEALTH
Ensuring Quality of Care in Family Planning: Rights and Responsibility
Family Planning plays an important role in achieving multiple development targets and goals set under the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs), Goal 3 – Good health and well-being and Goal 5 – Gender equality, call for reduced maternal mortality, reduced premature, neonatal and chil... Read More
Dr Rita Prasad 11-Jul-2018 1238
Uncategorized
Youth Perspectives on Gender Based Violence
Gender responsiveness is a major challenge especially in ascertaining Gender Based Violence. Understanding what constitutes GBV also varies as there are different interpretations of the concept of gender as well as violence. Both genders can be the targets of Gender-Based violence, however, women and girls are the most vulnerable. The issue of GBV is multifaceted that... Read More
Ayesha Priyadarshini Mohanty, Intern 25-Jun-2018 1146
LIVELIHOOD
Working in the Unorganised Sector
Any normal day in an average Indian middle-class household cannot be imagined without the domestic worker carrying out daily chores for the household. The domestic worker is an essential part of the household, and an integral one, that it is hard to carry out everyday proceedings without them. If one picks up elementary education books, one can easily spot the profess... Read More
Aditi Yajnik , Consultant- Advocacy 5-Jun-2018 3207
LIVELIHOOD
Improved Cooking Stove- Bringing Hope in Lives of Many
In a widow’s story of love, loss, and renewal Dianne Dettmann says, “I realised, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change.” It is really interesting how the plight of widows transcends the borders of geograph... Read More
Geetanjali Swain 28-May-2018 556
MISCELLANEOUS
Towards Ending Gender-Based Violence at the Workplace
In recent past India has witnessed increased participation of women in all walks of life. They are now taking complete charge of their lives and getting involved in all decision-making processes and procedures related to them directly or indirectly. With women gaining visibility in the social and the political sector, various issues related to their safety and acces... Read More
Aditi Yajnik , Consultant- Advocacy 1-May-2018 1313
LIVELIHOOD
ICS – A helping hand for a woman in her old age
70 years old Natu Pradhan, belongs to Paburia Gram Panchayat, Kandhamal district. She was married at a very young age to a man whose first wife had passed away leaving two small children. After getting married, Natu got so busy raising her step children that she never thought of having her own child. But, as the children grew up they failed to accept Natu as their mot... Read More
Geetanjali Swain, SWITCH ASIA-II project 4-Apr-2018 690
LIVELIHOOD
Clean Energy and Gender Transformative Change
Nearly 70% of India’s population lives in villages. Lack of resources and energy poverty are primary reasons of why people spend their lives in deprivation. Consumption of traditional sources of energy, like firewood, negatively affects the growth and health of girls and women and makes them prone to many health hazards. One such village where this problem is quite ... Read More
Bachat Team 26-Mar-2018 367

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