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August 21, 2012
Why does 40 per cent of medical equipment go unused in developing countries?
A new study has found that high-tech medical equipment sent to developing countries is majorly not used because they are unsuitable to the settings they are sent to. Read more here.
August 21, 2012
Maternal health in the ‘mobile age’
The MDG5 – that of reducing maternal mortality by 75 per cent by the year 2015 has been called extremely optimistic as measures have not been showing results yet. This is where community health workers come in. Read more here.
August 21, 2012
Big Pharma devising a ‘tit for tat’ strategy
India’s struggle for low cost generic medicines has been ill received by big pharma companies worldwide. India in the past gave a compulsory license to Natco Pharma to produce Bayer AG’s cancer drug Nexavar. This has put companies on the alert – they have been rallying their respective governments to […]
August 21, 2012
State of the Integrated Field of Health and Microfinance in India
This report titled “State of the Integrated Field of Health and Microfinance in India: Harnessing the Strengths of Two Sectors to Improve Health and Alleviate Poverty” tries to explain the concept of integrated health and microfinance units in India. Read the report here.
August 21, 2012
Madhya Pradesh, India’s vocational training for girls
In Madhya Pradesh, India, the sex ratio is disproportionately skewed. In response the government has launched a campaign called ‘Beti Bachao Abhiyan’, or Save Daughters campaign. Now, a new vocational training programme for adolescent girls has been launched under this programme. Read more here.
August 21, 2012
Madagascar to receive grants and funds for agri-vocational training
The IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) is providing Madagascar with a loan of US$333 million, and a grant of US$2 million to help improve the agricultural productivity in the country through a new vocational training programme called FORMAPROD (Vocational Training and Agricultural Productivity Improvement Programme). Read more here.
August 21, 2012
Rwanda: World Vision hands over a vocational training institute
World Vision Rwanda recently handed over a new TVT (Technical Vocational Training) centre to the Nyaruguru District in Southern Rwanda. This is expected to lower the school drop-out rates by helping more local children access educational facilities. Read more here.
August 21, 2012
Switching from BPO to BoP education
This post delineates the contribution of technical training to employ a large labour-force at the base of the pyramid in India. Most approaches so far were low-tech programmes, confined to small scale. The BPO movement which revolutionized the employment scenario in India can now be leveraged for the BoP sector […]
August 21, 2012
Why vocational training must be a global concern
This post highlights the vocational training scenario in Sri Lanka, recent initiatives taken and milestones left to scale, and echoes with the existent circumstances of vocational training across the world as well. It addresses the basic issue of lesser importance given to vocational training, and the price a company’s economy […]
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