The report captures the pandemic responsive interventions across PRADAN, the learnings from these interventions as well as the relevance of these engagements in context of COVID-19 and thereafter...
The national lockdown of India announced on March 24th 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic...
Nitya Rao | Nivedita Narain | Shuvajit Chakraborty | Arundhita Bhanjdeo | Ayesha Pattnaik
Supporting the villagers with technical know-how, introducing them to new ways of conserving the more-than-adequate rainwater each year tying up with government agencies and programmes not only led to alleviating poverty...
Story Hemant Dewangan
Working on finding scientific ways to increase the availability of water in villages through most of the year led to collaboration between various stakeholders, including the community, the forest department...
Story | Kanad Ghosh
Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN) is India’s foremost agency working on large scale rural poverty alleviation. The Non-Government Organisation (NGO)...
Somesh Menon
“I feel so tired and weak always. I am unable to do any work neither at home nor in the farm,” said 22-year-old Ganita Komra of Masulpani village in Narharpur administrative block of Uttar Bastar Kanker district....
Mohini Saha
Sukanti Oraon of Jana, a village in Gumla district of Jharkhand, clearly remembers the day her Self Help Group (SHG) was formed...
Vivek Sinha | Parijat Ghosh | Dibyendu Chaudhuri
During our transect walk through Chataniha, a village in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh, Ramkali and Munni explained how their lands were losing topsoil...
Parijat Ghosh | Dibyendu Chaudhuri | Jostine A
“The target is to launch the ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ scheme within a year. Once the point-of-sale machines are made available at all the public distribution system (PDS) shops...
Dibyendu Chaudhuri | Parijat Ghosh
Banita Tipiria, a daily wager from Khalapada village in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district, is spoilt for choice when it comes to her family’s meals. Growing organic brinjals, chillies, bottle gourds, ridge gourds, ladies finger...
Urvashi Dev Rawal