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This paper highlights the increasing importance of Community Driven Development (CDD) in the delivery of public services to the poorest sections and enhancing access, voice and accountability in developing countries. Community participation in the delivery of ‘public services’ to the poorest sections of the population in developing countries has often been regarded as an effective mechanism to enhance access, voice and accountability.
This two-part series examines the importance of community policing and how it can be useful in dealing with India’s internal security challenges.
This second part assesses the challenges of insurgency in the Northeast and the Left-Wing Extremism.
Open defecation (OD), an age-old practice in India, impacts the health of individuals as well as their communities. To tackle the problem, the Government of India launched the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) in 2014, aimed at making the country open-defecation free (ODF) by October 2019 by giving more attention to community-based approaches. However, while such approaches have helped solve the sanitation riddle in many countries, curbing OD in India
Sikh extremism and separatism are far from the norm, but they have somehow hijacked Canadian diplomacy
Sikh extremism and separatism are far from the norm, but they have somehow hijacked Canadian diplomacy
As the frequency of climate-related disasters rise, there is a greater need for a compounded cooperative approach within the global community
Promotion of the tourism sector is inherently linked with the connectivity in the sub-region.
By following in Denmark's footsteps, India can set a precedent for South Asian countries with regard to same-sex adoption.
Jayashree Balasubramanian et al., “Leveraging Community Engagement in Swift and Skillful Disaster Response,” ORF Special Report, March 2024, Observer Research Foundation.
Neither Yameen, nor his ministers have explained how getting eternally indebted to China would help in the economic independence of Maldives.
The initiative envisages ensuring universal menstrual hygiene through indigenous strategies, based on three principles: Access, Awareness, and Accepta
Knowledge assessment is essential to policymaking, including for health. This report measures awareness of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance, and finds crucial gaps in understanding on many issues. In a survey among visitors to a science museum in Kolkata, the authors found, for example, more than six of every 10 respondents (67 percent) believing that antibiotics can be used to treat viral infections. This report highlights the need to de
This paper analyses the initiatives for regional integration in East Africa and the challenges that are being faced in this regard. The paper also examines the development initiatives taken by India in the region. Following the European withdrawal, statesmen ushering in independent Africa were faced with the dire prospect of addressing the many problems their colonial overlords had left upon them. Independent Africa was left in abject poverty
Often the success of a summit is weighed from the number of deals signed during it, and in the present summit, only a Memorandum of Understanding on BIMSTEC Grid Interconnection was signed, giving reason to doubt the jubilation about the summit. A closer view of the summit suggests more than one reason to be optimistic.
The stability and security of Mozambique is a cause of international concern.
The recognition of Community Conserved Areas will enable a process-oriented approach towards achieving the targets under the Global Biodiversity Frame
Any attempt by India to haul up Pakistan before the international community, including the UN, could prove counter productive. It could start with India itself 'internationalising' the issue, and formally allowing the rest of the world to tell us what we should do to Pakistan, and on the vexatious Kashmir issue.
The Indian-American community, the second largest immigrant group in the US, is often considered to be a key constituency — especially in the swing
In the coming weeks and months, India will see a rise in movement as we start our journey towards the pre-COVID-19 normal. This is when the role of da
A multi-stakeholder approach that includes actors such as the government, private sector, and community needs to be adopted to improve the air quality
Expanding investments, collaboration between departments, fostering public-private partnerships, and engaging the community are crucial for health care in India
The Dhun Project aspires to create a microcosm in a 500-acre ecological reserve, comprising of living, working, learning, recreational and research sp
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's address to the nation on July 22 - as the people of London reeled from a second series of blasts at underground train stations - betrayed a sense of anxiety, a clear shift to address the Islamic community and an unwitting admission of failure in the war on terrorism.Wilson John
India has reservations about opening up Indian citizenship for Sri Lankan Tamils, as it fears that Sinhala-Buddhist hardliners will create intolerable
Despite glaring evidence of women's rights violations in Afghanistan, the international community remains silent.
The global community needs to address the Afghanistan refugee crisis if it aims to achieve the SDGs by 2030.
In the aftermath of consecutive earthquakes in Afghanistan, the international community’s response to appeals for funding has been tepid
Before engaging with the Taliban on counterterrorism, the global community needs to realise that this move will have both political limitations and re
Figuring out how to support the Afghan people without strengthening the Taliban has been the challenge that is confronting the global community
There are only two ways to look at the recent decision of the US administration to arm Pakistan with new weapons. First, as the Bush administration officials have been trying, rather hard, to convince the international community, particularly India, that the weapons they are selling to President Pervez Musharraf¿s Pakistan are meant to fight terrorism.
Left-wing activism amongst young people in the United States is on the rise, in no small part aided by the internet and social media. The generation which demographic researchers refer to as ‘Gen-Z’—or those born between the mid- to late 1990s to the early 2010s—is becoming more politically engaged. This brief offers an intellectual history of modern-day leftist politics in the US, and argues that it is primarily driven by the pur
Now that BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi is approaching what could possibly be the pinnacle of his career, the last thing he wants is to box himself in by his own rhetoric. It is for this reason that in his Haryana speech, he also invoked Atal Bihari Vajpayee's policy, which used the Kargil crisis to get the world community to pin down Pakistan on avoiding the use of violence in relation to Kashmir.
