World Toilet Day: Enhancing Toilet Use in Ghana
Almost 23% of people in Ghana do not have access to any sanitation facility, and only 15% use improved...
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Internships at Athena Infonomics: In Their Own Words
An internship at Athena Infonomics allows you to develop, both professionally and by creating an impact in people’s everyday…
Include Women in Decision Making to Mitigate the Effects of Drought
India faces major water scarcity. How can including women in decision-making help deal with drought and how can successful…
World Water Week 2019: WASH Updates
In anticipation of the World Water Week 2019, we would like to share some of our work with our…
Field Diary: Faecal Sludge Management and Monitoring in Kampala
Field visit takeaways from a recent field visit to Kampala, Uganda for our BMGF funded project on developing an…
Field Diary: From Sewerage to Sanitation for all in Lusaka
Field visit takeaways from a recent field visit to Lusaka, Zambia for our BMGF funded project on developing an…
Field Diary: Climate Change and Water Management (IAdapt)
Field visit takeaways from a recent field visit to Vijayawada, India for our IDRC funded project on water management…
Field Diary: Piped Water Supply in Mandalay, Myanmar
Field visit takeaways from a recent field visit to Mandalay, Myanmar for our IGC funded project on piped water…
Internships at Athena Infonomics: Develop through Data
An internship at Athena Infonomics allows you to develop, both professionally and by creating an impact in people’s everyday…
When the Pits Fill Up: A Day in the Life of Sanitation Workers in Urban India
A pictorial guest blog by C.S. Sharada Prasad and Isha Ray on the plight of sanitation workers in urban…
Making ‘Digital India’ Work for Women
This International Women’s Day, our Consultant Devkanya shares policy suggestions on how to make the ‘Digital India’ initiative more…
Field Diary: Improving and Expanding Agricultural Micro-insurance for Indian Farmers
Field visit takeaways from a recent field visit to Telangana (India) for a project to increase micro-insurance uptake among…
Field Diary: Assessing Matching Grants in Nepal (PACT)
Field visit takeaways from a recent field visit to Kathmandu, Nepal for project PACT. Athena is assessing the agriculture…
Violence Against Women: The Cyclical Connection with Unpaid Labor
Understanding the link between how women’s unpaid labor is valued may improve our understanding the cyclical nature of violence…
Where There Are No Sewers: The Toilet Cleaners of Lucknow
A pictorial guest blog for World Toilet Day by C.S. Sharada Prasad and Isha Ray on the plight of…
Ending Open Defecation in Rural India: Re-thinking our ‘Subsidy Policy’ and ‘Swacchagrahi Strategy’
Interventions on open defecation in rural India can be improved through an analysis of the subsidy policy, writes Athena’s…
World Toilet Day: From the Field
For World Toilet Day, our Consultants share their insights from recent field visits to our project sites in Trichy,…
Urban Planning and Development: The Indian Challenge
Although it took 40 years for Urban India to grow to 230 million, it will take only half of…
Field Diary: Climate Change and Water Management (IAdapt)
Field visit takeaways from a recent field visit to Vijayawada, India for our IDRC funded project on water management…
Adult Literacy: The Neglected Aspect of Literacy
Literacy has been recognized as a right by UNESCO and several other international conventions such as the Convention on...
Literacy in an Electronic Age: A Perspective
The definition of literacy is lacking a fixed definition both across time and space. We explore definitions of literacy…
Why we need to Recognize the Gendered Impacts of Enforced Disappearances
Political upheavals and unstable regimes world-over have been stained with the practice of abducting and silencing opponents. People literally...
Expanding Chennai: 4 Key Considerations for a Smooth Transition
With our head office and origins in Chennai (also known as Madras), Madras day is a focal point for...
Field Diary: Hybridity in Education
Our Technical Lead shares his experience at a small village in Assam, sharing what may be representative of India’s…
India’s Child Labor Problem: Could Education Reforms be the Solution?
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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