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When the Pits Fill Up: A Day in the Life of Sanitation Workers in Urban India
India’s flagship sanitation program, Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), highlights both the importance of latrine use, and also of “safe...
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Making ‘Digital India’ Work for Women
India’s Cellphone Gender Gap About a fortnight before International Women’s Day, GSMA’s Mobile Gender Gap Report (2018) estimated that...
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Field Diary: Improving and Expanding Agricultural Micro-insurance for Indian Farmers
To learn about Athena’s social impact bond supporting Indian farmers to increase micro-insurance uptake, click here. The Context: Vulnerability...
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Field Diary: Assessing Matching Grants in Nepal (PACT)
To learn about Athena’s independent assessment for PACT Nepal on matching grants for small holder farmers, click here. Nepal:...
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Violence Against Women: The Cyclical Connection with Unpaid Labor
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
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’
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
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
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)
Field visit takeaways from a recent field visit to Vijayawada, India for our IDRC funded project on water management…
