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    Education

    A closer look at India’s expanding teaching workforce

    Here is what six charts reveal about the spread and shortages in India’s 10 million teachers.
    by Vijay Jadhav, IndiaSpend | 3 min read

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    Environment
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    • four adults--three males and a female--observing a class in session--teachers in india
    Education
    A closer look at India’s expanding teaching workforce
    Here is what six charts reveal about the spread and shortages in India’s 10 million teachers.
    by Vijay Jadhav, IndiaSpend | 3 min read
    four women and a child sitting in a field with dense tree cover in the background--paryavaran sakhis
    Environment
    Women unite to tackle Uttarakhand’s waste problem
    Women’s collectives across six Sahastradhara panchayats collect, sort, and manage waste, even as they navigate questions of dignity around waste work.
    by Naina Bajpai, Rajesh Goswami | 7 min read
    Ranglong women smoking a bamboo hookah at a local shop in Laikhua; a traditional bamboo basket in front of them.--bamboo-based livelihoods
    Livelihoods
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    • green fields, with those farther away cut into neat plots, and blue skies with some clouds--gramdan
    Social Justice
    Half a century later, where does India’s Gramdan movement stand today?
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    by India Development Review | 6 min read
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    Ecosystem Development
    It’s time to rethink MEL
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    by India Development Review | 4 min read
    a group of people sitting on a carpeted floor--participant data
    Ecosystem Development
    Keeping participant data safe: What researchers can do
    Social science research often involves collecting personal and sensitive information. Data de-identification is one key way researchers can protect participants’ privacy.
    by Chandan Jain, Anagha Mariya Jose | 4 min read

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    • A group of three women facing a man and woman standing and writing in their notebooks-Monitoring and evaluation
    Ecosystem Development
    It’s time to rethink MEL
    Originally devised to help organisations reflect and learn from their work, monitoring, evaluation, and learning has been reduced to a reporting tool. How can this change?
    by India Development Review | 4 min read
    a group of people sitting on a carpeted floor--participant data
    Ecosystem Development
    Keeping participant data safe: What researchers can do
    Social science research often involves collecting personal and sensitive information. Data de-identification is one key way researchers can protect participants’ privacy.
    by Chandan Jain, Anagha Mariya Jose | 4 min read
    a vegetable vendor in India selling vegetables--community-driven change
    Monitoring & Evaluation
    Measure what matters to the community
    To effectively track progress and evaluate results of community-driven initiatives, funders and nonprofits must start by asking what success looks like from the community’s perspective.
    by Elisabeth Makumbi, Aditi Sharma, Jasleen Kaur | 8 min read
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