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  - Population 1124.79 mln
  - Population growth 1%
  - Life expectancy 65 years
  - Net migration -1,350,000
  - GDP $2.15 bln
  - - per capita $950
  - - growth rate 9%
  - FDI, net inflows $2.15 bln
  - Cellphone users 21%
  - Internet users 7%
  - High-tech exports 5%

Building an Ecosystem for Social Entrepreneurship in Rural Livelihoods

Building an Ecosystem for Social Entrepreneurship in Rural Livelihoods

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Bihar has more than 100 million inhabitants and is India’s second poorest state. Ninety percent of the population lives in rural areas and the state has lagged behind in reducing poverty. Jeevika, a rural livelihoods program has been working with community institutions since 2007 and has built an institutional platform by mobilizing 1 million women into self-help groups (SHGs) and higher-level federations. Eventually, the project plans to mobilize 15 million households and reach most more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 17, 2013

Strengthening the Demand and Supply for Better Village Governance

IRRAD's project nomination on "Strengthening the Demand and Supply for Better Village Governance" has been shortlisted as top 100 innovations out of close to 1000 nominations for Rockefeller Foundation Next Century Innovators Awards 2013. Follow link http://centennial.rockefellerfoundation.org/innovators/profile/sustainable-solutions-for-improving-rural-governance to view the innovation and see how it is forging new pathways, changing the way services are delivered, and improving more...

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Arti Manchanda on May 17, 2013

UNICEF podcast: Amina Mohammed says gender equality and girls’ education critical in post-2015 goals

UNICEF podcast: Amina Mohammed says gender equality and girls’ education critical in post-2015 goals

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Gender equality and education will be critical in planning the development agenda that succeeds the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning Amina Mohammed. With the international community assessing the gains made by the MDGs and forging a path for the future after the 2015 deadline, Ms. Mohammed has been appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to help create an inclusive and sustainable more...

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Taleen Vartan on May 16, 2013

'Slum Tourism' for Impact? Reality Tours couples education and social change

'Slum Tourism' for Impact? Reality Tours couples education and social change

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Dharavi is one of the largest slums in the world, which became world famous through the film "Slumdog Millionaire." Situated in central Mumbai, about one million people inhabit an area of 175 hectares. That is a population density 80 times larger than that of the city of São Paulo. Reality Tours, a for-profit private organization whose goal is to change people's perception of Dharavi, which is often hurt by the same factors that make the place so famous worldwide. The mission of Reality more...

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D C on May 15, 2013

Video: Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education

Video: Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education

In this video of his TED talk, Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.

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John Daly on May 15, 2013

Challenges for Community Radio in India's Rural Development

Challenges for Community Radio in India's Rural Development

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India’s 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017) talks of challenges emanating from the economy’s transition to a higher growth path, the structural changes that come with it and the expectations it generates. These parameters are more critical for an estimated 833 million people in India who continue to live in rural areas and a very large proportion of whom, both men and women, are either wholly or significantly still dependent for their livelihood on farm as well as non-farm activities. A grant of more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 12, 2013

Utility of knowledge, attitude, and practice survey, and prevalence of dental caries among 11- to 13-year-old children in an urban community in India

Utility of knowledge, attitude, and practice survey, and prevalence of dental caries among 11- to 13-year-old children in an urban community in India

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By Baranya Shrikrishna Suprabha, Arathi Rao, Ramya Shenoy, Sanskriti Khanal Background: The school oral health education program is believed to be a cost-effective method for promoting oral health. The KAP (knowledge-attitude-practice) model of oral health education is often the foundation of most health education programs. Objectives: To assess the existing knowledge, attitude, and oral health care practices among 11- to 13-year-old children and the association of knowledge with attitude, more...

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OxiCash Money Transfer launches as India's 1st RBI-approved mobile wallet for unbanked

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India's payments solutions provider Oxigen unveiled its instant money transfer service, OxiCash. This "mobile wallet" enables India's unbanked population to transfer money with ease to any bank account and receive money into their wallet at any time. The service will benefit the underprivileged segment of India's population who have been unable to conduct money transfers due to the lack of a bank account, said Oxigen in a news release. Oxigen has estimated that 60 percent of India's 1.2 more...

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D C on May 9, 2013

Setting the scene: Assessing and planning with harm reduction partners

(c) Nell Freeman for the Alliance

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This report summarises the results of site assessments on HIV and drug use in China, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Malaysia. The assessments were conducted by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and their teams of experts in four technical areas: HIV prevention services for people who inject drugsHIV and drug-related policy and environmentorganisational development issuesmonitoring and evaluation of interventions. The assessments were conducted to guide planning for the Community Action on Harm more...

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AIDS Alliance on May 8, 2013

From Marginalisation to Empowerment

From Marginalisation to Empowerment

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The potential of land rights to contribute to gender equality – observations from Guatemala, India and Sierra Leone. For many years, activists have campaigned for women’s rights to access, control, and, where context allows, own land. This is in recognition of the fact that land is important not only for growing food or as a place to build a home. Land is also a resource that can be used to generate other forms of livelihoods, a place to belong to, and an identity. This is true for both women more...

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D C on May 7, 2013

S.M. Sehgal Foundation receives grant assistance from the Embassy of Japan for a ground water recharging project

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The Institute of Rural Research and Development (IRRAD), an initiative of S.M. Sehgal Foundation (SMSF) signed a grant agreement with the Embassy of Japan on March 22, 2013 under their “Grant Assistance for Grassroots Projects”. The grant is for implementing a natural resource management project that includes construction of a check dam in village Rawli of district Mewat, Haryana. Diminishing supply of freshwater is of grave concern in Mewat, which hampers agriculture and animal husbandry, more...

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Arti Manchanda on May 7, 2013

How India’s Unique ID System is Changing Lives

How India’s Unique ID System is Changing Lives

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Aadhaar is a state-of-the-art online system that provides unique 12-digit ID numbers to residents of India. These numbers can be used for a wide range of public and private services. Aadhaar has already registered over 300 million people in its cloud database. Eventually the system will register all of India's 1.2 billion residents – but that's not all its set out to do. Aadhaar encourages innovation through an interface open to private and public applications. One of its first major more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 5, 2013

Volunteer An Asset For The World

Heeals Water ,Sanitation Hygiene & Girl Education#volunteer india heeals,

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Volunteering for some work for helping somebody from the time immemorial is considered to be as the work of God , and a volunteer a messenger of the god According to Great Mahatma Gandhi he said that , " if you feel very sad or very lonely or depressed , help a weeping child to make him or her happy, help a poor mother , help a poor man , the feeling the happiness you will get is above all else and you will proud of your self ".

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Gaurav Kashyap on May 2, 2013

"Learn Hand washing & Hygiene Practice Through Games & Multimedia"

"Learn Hand washing & Hygiene Practice Through Games & Multimedia"

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Promoting awareness among children about Handwash & Menstrual Hygiene through games and multimedia. Games and Multimedia played a very important role in creating awareness among school children about Hand wash and Menstrual Hygiene. We created four different Games for children

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Gaurav Kashyap on May 2, 2013

"Not A Single Public Toilet In Rural Delhi "

Heeals Water ,Sanitation Hygiene & Girl Education

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In this fast changing world, Investment in sanitation is given very low priority.“Instead of open defecation, Toilets are their Birth Right.” India is home to 638 million people defecating in the open. People have everything in their Home from TV set to Mobile Phones, but they don’t have Toilet Facilities!Rural belt of Delhi which stretches from Bardarpur border south east Delhi to Narela in the northern part of Delhi. There is not a single toilet on this way.

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Gaurav Kashyap on May 2, 2013

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