ThinkChange India recently published an article on Accountability Intiative’s PAISA project. For this flagship initiative, the organization has a requirement for a research associate. Here are the details on duties and responsibilities. Managing PAISA program at the state level Undertaking training and managing PAISA survey’s at the state level Build and regularly update a database [...]

Accountability Initiative (AI) is a research initiative that strives to track and disseminate information on existing levels of accountability in various government programs. PAISA (Planning, Allocations and Expenditures, Institutions: Studies in Accountability) is AI’s flagship initiative to this end. PAISA’s concept note provides a quick overview of its objectives which is quoted below. PAISA is [...]

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IFMR Centre for Development Finance and the World Resources Institute are coming out with a report focusing on clean energy options for the base of pyramid in India, this report is titled “Power to the people” and it is being launched in Mumbai on the 28th of September 2010 in front of a host of [...]

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Samhita is pleased to announce an extension for the application deadline, previously covered here. NGOs now have until September 5th to complete their application. If your projects focus on the girl child and if you have still not applied for the award, you can register on www.samhita.org to become eligible for: Unrestricted grants of up [...]

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India has achieved significant success is the population growth of the country over the last couple decades. While some of the gains were achieved through sometimes coercive and controversial sterilization programs, large scale education and awareness building initiatives also played and important role in reducing fertility rate. Seems like the Indian government is re-visiting the issue of [...]

A Government of India regulation mandating companies to commit a minimum level of resources towards socially responsible projects? Does the idea seem a little far-fetched? Well, you are not the only one who is surprised. Here is the update from Forbes.com: In early March, corporations were surprised by an announcement from the government’s Corporate Affairs [...]

Marico Innovation Foundation is organizing a “Innovation Workshop for Social Entrepreneurs” between 26th to 28th August 2010 at Mahogany, The Club, Andheri (W), Mumbai.   The workshop seems to be very well planned to drill innovation as deep as possible into the participating social enterprises. The three-day workshop is divided into three kinds of sessions inter-twined with [...]