India

Managing risks, enabling capacity building, and improving access to markets can help women entrepreneurs grow their businesses.

While women are already playing a crucial role in adapting to the devastating effects of climate change, they also have the potential to drive mitigation efforts.

Thousands of Mumbai’s citizens are disconnected from the city’s water supply network. This photo essay reports on the impact of the poor governance of this essential resource on informal urban…

Instead of creating separate solutions for children with disabilities, we must think of inclusion as a strand that can be woven into schools’ existing models.

India is facing a job crisis. In November 2022, the unemployment rate in the country rose to 8 percent—the highest in three months. According to a statistical profile on unemployment in India from…

From sowing to sorting, manual labour by women is widespread in agriculture in India. Mechanisation and investment in R&D can solve this challenge.

Increasingly extreme heat waves will imperil India’s development goals and slow economic growth, new research shows…

The importance of land rights as a means for women’s empowerment is fairly evident, as it provides women with financial security, shelter, income, and livelihood opportunities. But how does the existing legal…

Currently, there are more than 250,000 local government bodies across India with nearly 3.1 million elected representatives and 1.3 million women representatives. How is the system structured? With the introduction of the…

Despite important gains in the formal education of girls in the last decade and half, women in India are conspicuously missing from the workforce. The country achieved universal girls’ enrollment in primary…

We need to make our secondary education relevant to the aspirations of our youth. Learn about the pathways that can make this happen.

Early childhood care and education is essential for not just school readiness, but also life readiness of our youth.