World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
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Behind India's stunted children: Anaemic, underweight mothers
Over half of India’s women are anaemic and one in every five is underweight, reveals National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS-4) Supriya Gaikwad, 25, holds her daughter who will turn two this May, as she
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Obesity rates swell in India: One-fifth of Indian women now overweight
Latest figures of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) for 2015-16 indicates obesity may be the next major health challenge in the country. According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4),
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Uganda: Rural Women's Group Changes Lives Through Sanitation Projects
A women's group in Luweero District has taken the campaign to boost hygiene and sanitation practices to another level. The group has not only encouraged members to improve sanitation and hygiene facilities
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Are poor individuals mainly found in poor households? evidence using nutrition data for Africa
Antipoverty policies in developing countries often assume that targeting poor households will be reasonably effective in reaching poor individuals. This paper questions this assumption, using nutritional
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Who should be at the top of bottom-up development? a case study of the national rural livelihoods mission in Rajasthan, India
It is widely acknowledged that top-down support is essential for bottom-up participatory projects to be effectively implemented at scale. However, which level of government, national or sub-national, should
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Uganda: 25 Districts Register Drop in Maternal Deaths- Ministry
Kampala — Many more families across the country have reason to smile as an average of 12 maternal deaths per month have since dropped to an average of only three deaths across 25 districts. According
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Malaria drug for pregnant women also combats sexually transmitted infections- research
A drug given to pregnant women to combat malaria also offers protection against sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and boosting doses of the 'double protection' treatment cuts the risk of infant deaths,
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Beyond COP 21: what did Asian countries pledge in the Paris Agreement?
A new CDKN working paper reviews 18 national climate commitments (INDCs) from countries of South and Southeast Asia and assesses their performance for four themes: mitigation targets; climate finance;
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National Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NFHS-4): India fact sheet
The National Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NFHS-4), the fourth in the NFHS series, provides information on population, health and nutrition for India and each State / Union territory. NFHS-4, for the first
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Women and Men in India-2016
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has been bringing out the publication “Women and Men in India” on a regular basis since 1995. The publication focuses on portraying gender inequality, gender bias and