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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
Understanding the link between how women’s unpaid labor is valued may improve our understanding the cyclical nature of violence…
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Where There Are No Sewers: The Toilet Cleaners of Lucknow
By C.S. Sharada Prasad and Isha Ray
A pictorial guest blog for World Toilet Day by C.S. Sharada Prasad and Isha Ray on the plight of…
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Ending Open Defecation in Rural India: Re-thinking our ‘Subsidy Policy’ and ‘Swacchagrahi Strategy’
By Deepa Karthykeyan
Interventions on open defecation in rural India can be improved through an analysis of the subsidy policy, writes Athena’s…
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World Toilet Day: From the Field
By Athena Infonomics Team
For World Toilet Day, our Consultants share their insights from recent field visits to our project sites in Trichy,…
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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
Only 13% of countries currently possess dedicated budgets for collecting and analyzing disaggregated data on women and girls -…
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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
The definition of literacy is lacking a fixed definition both across time and space. We explore definitions of literacy…
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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
Our Technical Lead shares his experience at a small village in Assam, sharing what may be representative of India’s…
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Our Co-Founder and Director Honored as an Impact Entrepreneur at the GSG Millennial Honors
By Athena Infonomics
11th July 2017: Athena Co-Founder VIjay Bhalaki honored as an impact entrepreneur at the GSG Millenial Honors in Chicago.
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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
The correlation between the Composite Coverage Index and the Infant Mortality Rate is negative, suggesting that such interventions may…
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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
Only about 14% (2015) of researchers in India are women (as compared to global average of 28% in 2015),…
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Spouse’s Signature in Loan Contracts – Signing Off on Women’s Socio-Economic Empowerment
By Ambrin M
Demanding a spousal signature for loan contracts has an implicit permission stemming from the underlying power dynamic relating to…
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