February 23, 2023

Tribal women reap benefits of collective farming

Switching to modern agricultural practices and coming together as producer groups have helped women farmers have the bargaining power about their produce and earn more
February 23, 2023

Why inequality is India’s worst enemy

India’s per capita gross domestic product increased five times between 2000 and 2019. The income, however, is concentrated only in a few hands
February 23, 2023

Sudhir Sahni – It Is My Strong Belief That One Needs to Follow One’s Passion, but Put in One’s Best in Whatever Work or Profession One Takes Up (Director, Partnerships PRADAN)

I was fortunate enough to 'discover' PRADAN after almost a year of searching for the right cause and organization in the development sector that would appeal to my heart and head. PRADAN works with remote, rural communities in Central and Eastern India, helping them come out of intergenerational poverty and realize a better future and lives for themselves.
February 23, 2023

Unleashing Women’s Potential to Transform their Lives

Nimisha Mittal recently interviewed Madhu Khetan to explore Madhu’s experiences, achievements, and insights based on her three decades-long experience as a development practitioner with PRADAN. Excerpts from this interview.
February 23, 2023

Extraordinary Indians: How Chandrakali Markam transformed her small Adivasi community through the power of microenterprise

Uneducated, co-dependent and powerless, women in Barga, MP are routinely limited to invisible roles. That is until Chandrakali Markam took the future into her own hands.
February 23, 2023

Women get trained for employment and starting enterprises

Second Chance program helps girls who had quit education take up jobs after a short training, and helps women farm and set up small units
February 23, 2023

The Fight at the Front: Securing Rights for India’s Rural Health ‘Volunteers’

ASHA and Anganwadi workers play an extremely important role in India’s villages. Its time they are recognized as such.
February 23, 2023

Wounded Wombs: In Madhya Pradesh’s Dindori district, rural women allege Copper T contraceptive inserted in their bodies without consent

Across all seven blocks in Dindori, against the target of 3,000 women, 3,984 had Copper T inserted between April 2019 and March 2020 — an achievement rate of 132 %. Women allege they were not informed. State government officials dismiss such charges.
February 23, 2023

Re-connecting with our Roots – How Crises Reiterated Food Sovereignty in Chakai

The announcement of country-wide lockdown induced by COVID-19 pandemic hit the informal sector the hardest. The return of migrant workers to their places of origin, disruption of agricultural supply chains, closing of markets and local hatias, restricted movements and a ban on transportation had a damaging effect on local food systems.
February 23, 2023

Eco Tasar’s handwoven products are in tune with the latest trends

The brand has a mission to create large scale wage opportunity for tribal producers of silk cocoons