Saturday, December 7, 2019
BLOG: In June 2019, we conducted a survey of 706 mothers in one district each in six states of India. We found serious concerns with the implementation of the Modi government’s Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana. The scheme gives monetary...
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Four in five expecting mothers in India did not receive any assistance under the government’s maternity benefits scheme in 2018-19, Indiaspend reported citing the Ministry of Women & Child Development.
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday, that it would support Kaduna State Government to implement Child-Sensitive Social Protection programmes in 2020. Dr Zakari Adam, Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Kaduna stated this in Kaduna on...
Monday, November 25, 2019
Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) is provided to the beneficiary in three installments on the basis of meeting fixed criteria—at least one ante-natal check-up, early registration of pregnancy, and child birth registration.
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
BLOG: India has one of the highest paid maternity benefits for working women in the world. But that law means nothing to most women in the country. Just 49% of those eligible for the central government maternity benefits scheme received any...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
OPINION: Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if men, not women, were bearing and delivering babies. Quite likely, the maternity (oops, paternity) wards in hospitals would have the best equipment and doctors. The shelves of grocery shops...
Monday, November 11, 2019
BLOG: There is growing evidence that in order to accelerate progress in reducing undernutrition, nutrition-specific approaches may be more effective in preventing undernutrition when complemented with cash transfers. In Myanmar ...
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Saturday, November 9, 2019
OPINION: India’s abysmal nutritional outcomes become newsworthy for about two days every year, coinciding with the release of the Global Hunger Index (GHI) report. Little attention is paid to two important caveats: one, the GHI ranking is rarely...
Thursday, October 17, 2019
(BLOG): Soon after she broke up with her boyfriend in 2016, Zou Xiaoqi discovered she was pregnant. She decided to have the baby on her own.“Although I’m not against marriage, I feel that to get married, you have to have sufficient reason to be together...
Monday, September 23, 2019
OPINION: The transition of the MDGs to the vastly more ambitious sustainable development goals (SDGs) in September 2015 followed a process of global and national consultations. Despite much scepticism, the collective political will and optimism of 193...
