Mahila Housing Sewa Trust (MHT)’s mission is to organize and empower women in poor communities to improve their habitat. A quality habitat is a home with all basic services such as clean water, toilets, electricity, and adequate light and ventilation. It...
Providing universal access to basic utilities is justified on human rights grounds and also because of the positive externalities involved. Adequate provision of water, sanitation and electricity contributes to the achievement of the other Millennium...
Institutions and agencies involved: International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, IPC-IG
Social protection has assumed lot of dimensions of globalization and prevent adverse fallout of recurrent global and domestic crises affecting large segment of our workforce belonging to the informal sector. Provision of social protection is enshrined in...
Institutions and agencies involved: International Labour Organization, ILO
Punjab government today directed officials of Social Security Department to complete the verification work related to various pension schemes for old age, widow, handicapped by June 30.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $275 million loan to help support and improve urban services delivery among poor communities, particularly on water supply and sanitation, in Madhya Pradesh in central India. Accompanying the loan is a...
Tuberculosis patients, hospitals and healthcare workers availing cash assistance from the government will need to register with the Aadhaar database by August 31, according to the Union Health Ministry.The Scheme refers to the government’s Revised...
Winds of more than 126 kmp/h hit Gopalpur of Odisha between 0430 and 0530 hours IST on 11th October 2018 causing heavy damage worth Rs. 2,200 crores according to the Government assessment. Houses worth Rs. 150 crore and as per input subsidy crops...
This paper analyses whether, and how, micro-finance supports a large public health subsidy program in the developing world -- the Swachh Bharat Mission -- in achieving its aim of increasing uptake of individual household latrines. Exploiting a cluster...
Institutions and agencies involved: World Bank Group
The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of social services in high growth developing economies and examine whether they have achieved such social outcomes. More specifically, this paper reviews the development of the social sector through...
Institutions and agencies involved: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, UNRISD
Can cash transfers help low-income households afford and connect to energy, and not just compensate for energy subsidy reductions? A new report by McGregor and Girardeau examines 25 energy-related measures implemented in 6 countries , i.e., Brazil, Ghana...