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March 21, 2013
India: IAP kills a million people each year
While it has been so far established that as many as a million people in India are mortal victims of indoor air pollution each year, the Planning Commission of India is undertaking further epidemiological studies to confirm this figure so as to arrive at concrete evidence to set up norms […]
March 21, 2013
Experimental evidence on non-traditional stoves in Bangladesh
This paper explores the influence of social networks and opinion leaders in the uptake of non-traditional, more efficient cookstoves in rural Bangladesh. Read it here.
March 21, 2013
Using Global Burden of Disease results for progress on Air Quality Management
This brief is a presentation by Dr Kalpana Balakrishnan of Centre for Advanced Research on Environmental Health, Government of India, and talks about the future steps to be taken in view of air quality management, including indoor air quality management in the country. Read the presentation here.
March 21, 2013
Implementation strategies for renewable energy services in low-income, rural areas in 2013
This issue brief by the World Resources Institute is the first in a series of three planned studies that will expand on the business strategies employed by social enterprises and organizations to distribute renewable energy technologies to low income, rural communities. Read the report here.
March 10, 2013
Entrepreneurship key for furthering India’s economic resurgence
Turning back a few pages in history to about 300 years back, India accounted for a fourth of the world’s GDP. By 1947, colonisation and missing the industrial revolution bandwagon had shrunk its share to about 2%. Fast forward to the early 1990s, decades of closed economic policies had reduced […]
March 4, 2013
Rwanda: Carnegie Mellon University, Rwanda gets grant for telehealth in developing countries research
CMUR, or the Carnegie Mellon University, Rwanda has been the recipient of a grant that will let it advance its research on information and and communication technology for the developing world. This grant has been provided by Ricoh, a provider of digital office solutions. Read more here.
March 4, 2013
Emerging technology for eHealthcare
This post runs through the history of healthcare provision, through the medium of mobile phones and e-technologies. It outlines the progress that can be achieved in the e-healthcare sector and explores areas for evolution in the existing ones. Read more here.
March 4, 2013
mHealth: Emerging High-Impact Practices for Family Planning
This draft brief is a part of USAID’s High Impact Practices (HIPs) in Family Planning. It notes the driving forces behind the popularization of mHealth projects, including the mobile phone market penetration worldwide, the shortage of health workers, and technological improvements. Read the report here.
March 4, 2013
Visa targets developing world through plug-and-play mobile money services
Visa has lauched a new plug-and-play mobile money platform, meaning it will host and manage all aspects of mobile money programme, on behalf of the providers – banks and telcos in developing countries. Partners in India and Rwanda have already signed up for this services. Read more here.
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Interactive SHG Map of India: 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups are spread across 27 States and 6 UTs in India
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