India has the largest number of child brides in the world — one third of the global total.1 Yet, recent data indicates that in the last decade there has been a significant decline in the prevalence of child marriage from 47 per cent to 27 per cent of the proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married before age 18 from 2005/2006 to 2015/2016.2 Child marriage among young men and boys has also seen a positive change.

What is the Blue Whale Challenge and why should parents be concerned about this game?

Focus on Rehabilitation Services and Linkages with the POCSO Act, 2012

National Cold Chain Assessment report highlights country’s current situation of cold chain with respect to UIP program in terms of infrastructure, processes, policies and practices. It also contains recommendations to address the future initiatives for expanding the scope of the Universal Immunization Program (UIP) with introduction of several Newer and Under-Utilized Vaccines Implementation (NUVI).

This document provides a comprehensive situational analysis of the cold chain infrastructure, human resources, stock management and monitoring of cold chain and logistics.

This document provides a comprehensive situational analysis of the cold chain infrastructure, human resources, stock management and monitoring of cold chain and logistics.

The IECEI Study is a longitudinal study documented children’s institutional participation; assessed their school readiness levels and subsequent early grade learning outcomes; observed their classrooms; and collected information from their homes and preschools/schools.

Targeted at school administrators, School Management Committees and parents, this user-friendly guidebook outlines the physical and infrastructural barriers children with disabilities may face in accessing schools and utilizing school facilities and provides step by step guidance and practical solutions to address these barriers. It features a checklist as a simple tool that can be used to assess how accessible a school is and to point out specific areas in need of improvement.

A state wide system of rating of schools along WASH indicators have been institutionalized by Government of West Bengal

The National Guidelines on Menstrual Hygiene Management was released by Honorable Minister of State, Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water and Sanitation, the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, on December 22, 2015.

A Technical Design Manual

ASH in Schools in India: Commitments and Actions” is an adaptation of the UNICEF Global document, “Raising Even More Clean Hands: Advancing Health, Learning and Equity through WASH in Schools” launched in 2012, in which key global WASH in Schools initiatives and achievements have been documented and endorsed by 60 global organisations

It was observed that prolonged development deficits created by lack of infrastructure, inappropriate service delivery mechanisms, unsustainable development practices and inadequate social safety nets coupled with declining community-based coping mechanisms have increased insecurities and hardships for children, women and their families

The Madhya Pradesh Unconditional Cash Transfers Project (MPUCT) is an innovative pilot testing the potential that such transfers hold for addressing vulnerabilities faced by low income Indians

The Madhya Pradesh Unconditional Cash Transfers Project (MPUCT) is an innovative pilot testing the potential that such transfers hold for addressing vulnerabilities faced by low income Indians

A study from Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand

The study was conducted between January–October 2016. Publically available prevalence data for childhood stunting at district level from the fourth round of India’s NFHS (2015-2016) were downloaded for all 228 districts of eight Indian states where UNICEF has programming presence – Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and West Bengal. The numbers of stunted children less than five years of age were arrived at using the single age data available fro

The prevalence of maternal and child undernutrition in drought-prone states is high and drought and drought-like conditions compound this issue further. The Government of India should develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for food security and nutrition assessment, mitigation and management plans within drought management and mitigation SOPs