Delhi sees return to air pollution after clean phase during lockdown

Every winter, Delhi NCR makes headlines with the return of its dreaded pollution season with air quality in the capital and other northern cities rapidly deteriorating to alarming levels. According to the Delhi-based non-profit Centre for Science and Environment, ‘the key contributors to...

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HIV response and the COVID-19 pandemic: Disruptions and Progress

Since the onset of this pandemic, health systems all over the world have become overwhelmed in response to the virus. Patients and health care providers have canceled or postponed many outpatient visits and converted others to telemedicine due to shortages of healthcare resources or the risk of infection....

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Fighting Violence Against Women: Laws, Initiatives and the Shadow Pandemic

Violence against women (VAW) is globally pervasive and the numbers are staggering. A 2013 analysis conducted by WHO found that worldwide, 35 per cent (1 in 3) of women have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence. Most of this violence is intimate...

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Poverty and the Pandemic

When the nationwide lockdown to curb the COVID outbreak was announced in March 2020, Sharda, a sixty-year old woman living in one of India’s six hundred thousand villages, had little to worry about. She owned a farm, and  for years, the farm had been the source of livelihood and food for her family....

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Rural women in a changing world

The last decade saw the barriers holding women back became less burdensome. We saw the rise of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. We witnessed better representation of women in political and corporate stages. We also heard women’s voices rise up in a global chorus, demanding...

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Beyond lighting: Rural electrification programs for enterprise development

Providing better electricity access to India’s vast population has long been a priority for the government and policy makers. Several government schemes such as Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutkaran Yojna (RGGVY), Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY) and Pradhan Mantri Har Ghar Sahaj Bijli...

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COVID-19 will make Data Science a critical necessity for the development sector

The outbreak of COVID-19 has put the global community of evaluators at an interesting, almost paradoxical, juncture. While the need for data and insights is most critical at this point to respond to the public health crisis, collecting this data is going to be now, and henceforth, more challenging...

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