Monthly Archives: August 2022

The complex interlinkages between poverty, development and the environment are well known: environmental degradation often affects the poor disproportionately, but poverty can also be a driver of unsustainable natural resource use and environmental decline. These impacts are amplified through the effect of climate change;...

Gender equality is achieved when women and men, girls and boys, have equal rights, conditions, opportunities and power to shape their own lives and affect society. It is a fundamental human right, and a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. Without...

There are glaring gaps between policy mandates and the culture/ behaviour at work places. The recent instances of “Me Too”! underscore the need to scrutinise processes at workplaces and build organisational capacity for ensuring that the working environment supports women’s dignity, safety and equality....

NITI Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurship Platform is a unique public-private partnership initiative where individuals collaborate and help scale up the efforts towards empowering women by promoting entrepreneurship. Mentorship and skilling programmes of WEP equip entrepreneurs to level the field. Sharing their success stories in social...

The recent NFHS-5 findings reveal 45% women and 44% men believe a husband is justified in beating his wife in 7 circumstances, 77% of women stay silent about domestic violence episodes. The pandemic resulted in increased cases of domestic violence, multiplied with social exclusion and...

Vriddhi is a USAID flagship program which supports scale up of high impact Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) interventions with the goal of preventing child and  maternal deaths. It partners with governments of seven states and the Ministry of Health and...