Odisha

Insights from Social Contexts

Mo Upakari Bagicha: Improving the Nutritional Status of Women and Children

  • August 17, 2021

Despite various challenges in the first year of implementation, the project has achieved huge success in terms of promoting dietary diversity among the beneficiaries. Till March 2021, around 3.13 lakh households have grown nutri-gardens in their households.
Insights from Social Contexts

Budgeting of Sustainable Development Goals in Odisha

  • April 22, 2021

The source of financing expenditure for various goals indicates the predominance of state-sponsored schemes in many of the goals. This in itself can be taken as the commitment of the state towards target compliance as regard SDGs.
Response to COVID-19

Odisha’s Fight against COVID-19

  • May 5, 2020

The state has shown some first of its kind actions to handle the COVID-19 pandemic. This could be seen as the state’s learning from handling natural disasters year after year. During and post these disasters, the state has already been credited with management resulting in zero human and cattle loss. The same passion, commitment, proactiveness is visible in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Education Lessons from Practice

The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in the Education of Scheduled Tribes in India

  • October 8, 2018

Tribal groups in India speak their own languages and not the mainstream language of the state they live in, which is a major hurdle in the education of their children. MLE and other innovative practices are being attempted in Odisha by NGOs like Sikshasandhan.

Development Lessons from Practice

Improving the Nutritional Status of Tribal People

  • September 24, 2018

There are different approaches towards the human development of the tribal or the indigenous people. Broadly, one can see two extreme positions in this regard. The first is one of modernizing these communities to integrate them with the mainstream population.

Education Lessons from Practice

Creative Language Development Among Tribal Children

  • August 1, 2018

According to the 2013 ASER report, Rayagada (Odisha), a district with a high ratio of tribal population, was ranked a low 25th out of 30 districts in terms of the percentage of children in class I and II who could read letters, words or more. The district also has the highest percentage of out-of-school children in the 6-14 age group in Odisha.

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