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Dispatch – December 2017
By Athena Infonomics
As our work continues to develop into new service offerings and localities, our team has expanded to meet this...
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Violence Against Women: The Cyclical Connection with Unpaid Labor
By Maria Jose
Violence against women is a symptom of a much larger problem. A symptom produced by a whirlpool of competing...
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Where There Are No Sewers: The Toilet Cleaners of Lucknow
By C.S. Sharada Prasad and Isha Ray
On this World Toilet Day, let’s turn the spotlight behind the scenes of the sanitation chain, on those who...
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Ending Open Defecation in Rural India: Re-thinking our ‘Subsidy Policy’ and ‘Swacchagrahi Strategy’
By Deepa Karthykeyan
World Toilet Day presents us with the opportunity to analyse issues surrounding both toilet access and usage, particularly open...
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World Toilet Day: From the Field
By Athena Infonomics Team
World Toilet Day is a reminder for development actors of the Sustainable Development Goal’s 2030 target. Namely, to ensure...
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Urban Planning and Development: The Indian Challenge
By Dr. Shovan K. Saha
Although it took 40 years for Urban India to grow to 230 million, it will take only half of…
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Field Diary: Climate Change and Water Management (iAdapt)
By Ansu Alexander
Field visit takeaways from a recent field visit to Vijayawada, India for our IDRC funded project on water management…
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Catalyzing Development: Sharing Development Information Effectively
By Praveen Ravi
Development agencies frequently talk of “catalyzing development” – What does this mean in the context of World Development Information…
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Data on Women and Girls: What Can We Do Better?
By Deepa Karthykeyan
The case for collecting disaggregated data on women and girls is well-established, yet with only 13% of countries currently...
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Adult Literacy: The Neglected Aspect of Literacy
By Aditi Gupta
Literacy has been recognized as a right by UNESCO and several other international conventions such as the Convention on...
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Literacy in an Electronic Age: A Perspective
By Dr. Rajarshi Singh
While experts and practitioners of Literacy do not agree on how literacy is to be defined and understood, there...
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Why we need to Recognize the Gendered Impacts of Enforced Disappearances
By Maria Jose
Political upheavals and unstable regimes world-over have been stained with the practice of abducting and silencing opponents. People literally...
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How to Build a Data System for Urban Malaria Surveillance
By Susannah Horton
Vector borne communicable diseases such as malaria pose a significant public health threat in urban clusters. Sprawling cities have been identified...
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Expanding Chennai: 4 Key Considerations for a Smooth Transition
By Praveen Ravi
With our head office and origins in Chennai (also known as Madras), Madras day is a focal point for...
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Athena Co-Hosted an Interaction Meeting on Emerging Consumption Tide in Small & Medium Cities in China and the Challenge for Japanese Industries
By Athena Infonomics
On 18th August 2017, Athena Infonomics, Chennai Centre for China Studies and the Indo-Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry...
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Field Diary: Hybridity in Education
By Dr. Rajarshi Singh
This International Youth Day, our Monitoring Learning and Evaluation Technical Lead shares his experience at a small village in...
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Our Co-Founder and Director Honored as an Impact Entrepreneur at the GSG Millennial Honors
By Athena Infonomics
On 11th July 2017, The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) and the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs...
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India’s Child Labor Problem: Could Education Reforms be the Solution?
By Dr. Rajarshi Singh
The world’s third largest economy, India, is home to a third of the world’s poor, with 22% of its...
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Identifying Contexts for Relationships between Coverage of Health Interventions and Infant Mortality Rate in African Countries
By Raghuveer Dinavahi
Introduction The way in which we analyse and understand data is important, and should be reiterated this World Health...
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Mental Health and Maternal Morbidity: A Neglected Dimension in Maternal Health
By Anupama Ramaswamy
With declining rates of maternal mortality worldwide, researchers are recognizing the importance of addressing maternal morbidity. Progress in maternal...
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Greater Research is Needed on Mental Health and Urban Planning in the Global South
By Samvita Kalyan Kumar
The link between urban living and mental health has been long established, even as early as the 1900s when...
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The 5Ds: Changing Attitudes to Open Defecation in India
By Vandana Mehra Dharmendra Singh
This blog entry has been re-published with the express permission of The World Bank Water Global Practice, New Delhi....
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Using Data Science to Predict Future Increases in Women and Girls’ Literacy Rates
By Raghuveer Dinavahi
Methodology To calculate the estimates, a model which has the starting point 0 (which indicates 0 zero literacy rate...
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India Should Learn from the Progress of Others to Improve Women’s Presence in STEM
By Zuno George Verghese
Women in STEM has been receiving a lot of media attention, such as the role of women engineers in...
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Spouse’s Signature in Loan Contracts – Signing off on Women’s Socio-Economic Empowerment
By Ambrin M
Microfinance programs are noted for their contribution and their potential in women’s socio-economic empowerment by providing financial services to...
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