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India and Children and young people

India
  • Capital: New Delhi
  • Population: 1173108018
  • Size: 3287590.0 Km2

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Indian programme targets teen boys for life skills instruction
Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2002
The Better Life Options Program for adolescent boys is a holistically designed program that guides adolescent boys towards better life skills, education, relationships, values etc. It addresses various issues including relationships, ...
Effects of domestic arrangements on the welfare on Indian elderly
S. Pal / Cardiff Business School, Economics Section, 2004
This paper examines the pattern of living arrangements among male and female elderly family members in India, using National Sample Survey data and derives implications for children as old age security in rural India. The burden of ca...
Participation and working children
M. Black / Save the Children Fund, 2004
This report is the outcome of research on participation and working children in Bangladesh, Brazil, Guatemala and Honduras, India and Senegal. Working children’s participation involves a wide range of activities, such as: ...
Child labour in Andhra Pradesh
D. Venkateswarlu / India Committee of the Netherlands, 2004
Following up on an earlier report, this report continues to examine trends in employment of child labour in hybrid cottonseed production in Andhra Pradesh. It also assesses the impact of recent initiatives undertaken by the government...
Exploring the constraints to the expansion of literacy and schooling in rural West Bengal
V.K. Ramachandran; M. Swaminathan; V. Rawal / Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2003
West Bengal is a State of India where there has been substantial progress in the sphere of school education since a government of the Left Front led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) came to power in 1977. That progress, howev...
Examination of the Tamil Nadu noon meal scheme reveals necessary changes
P. Swaminathan; J. Jeyaranjan; R. Sreenivasan; K. Jayashree / Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004
This paper examines Tamil Nadu's noon nutritious meal scheme, India's largest in terms of the number of beneficiaries covered. The authors propose that enrolment and retention of children, including girls, in schools have shown signif...
Child rights and PRSPs
K. Heidel / Kindernothilfe, 2004
In 2005 the International Monetary Fund and World Bank will undertake a comprehensive review of PRSP processes. This report aims to position itself to influence this review process by providing factual evidence and preliminary recomme...
Reaching more people with nutrition interventions in Benin, India, Madagascar, Nigeria and Senegal
K. Acharya; T. Sanghvi; S. Diene / Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 2004
This paper examines the potentials of the ENA approach, which attempts to expand the coverage of six proven nutrition interventions by building on countries' existing nutrition work and, using delivery channels within and outside form...
Government policy failing to combat widespread discrimination against children affected by HIV/AIDS in India
Human Rights Watch, 2004
This Human Rights Watch report documents discrimination against HIV/AIDS affected children and highlights the failure of the Indian government to protect such children from abuses. The report finds that widespread discrimination in ed...
How can children influence policy? Case studies from South Asia
E. Williams / Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004
This report looks how children can successfully influence policy relating to childhood poverty. It compares five case studies: an HIV/AIDS conference in Nepal the 2001 Children’s Parliament in Sri Lanka (b...
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Save the Children India
Child rights organisation in India
The Goodwill Social Work Centre
The Goodwill Social Work Centre aims to: promote the overall development of children, youth and women in rural and urban areas in India, who are socially and economically deprived provide family-centred home-based intensive services to children, youth and women in dysfunctional families in slums and backward areas in India sensitise rural and ur...
The Concerned for Working Children (CWC)

Promoting a society free of child labour

Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC)
Indian urban health network
Butterflies, India
Butterflies is an NGO that works with street children in Delhi, India. The organisation’s programmes include education, health, saving schemes, a crisis centre, children's media, and vocational training. Butterflies has a research and advocacy centre that focuses on child rights issues. These include nutritional status of street children child labour non formal education Butter...
Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya Foundation (MVF)
Action against child labour in India
National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCC)
Organisation coordinating and promoting child-focused social development
HAQ Centre for Child Rights
Centre for child rights
Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS)
Indian research centre specialising in gender-based research
Indicus Analytics
Indian economics research firm
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