FMSF

As per the existing law, all NGOs are subject to Service Tax wherever applicable. However, the budget 2012 has, exempted certain category of NGOs totally from the purview of service tax. In other words, such NGOs need not pay service tax even for providing taxable services without any financial limit. Unfortunately, very few types of NGOs have been included under this totally exempted category. All such related matters are discussed in this

Soumitra Others, Service Tax on NPOs Service Tax on NGOs NGO Tax

FMSF and VANI

Volume 5, Issue 1 (April 2012) of ^Standards & Norms^ - an initiative of FMSF and VANI. This publication contains thorough information on Service Tax on NPOs after Budget 2012.

CSO Partners Others, NPOs Service Tax India Budget 2012

CSO Partners

This document delves into the current CSR trends globally, while comparing these trends to their uptake in India.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Research corporate social responsibility Strategic CSR Global Reporting Initiative CSR Codes and Compliances

CSO Partners

In CSO Partners second issue of its CSR Digest, Harshita Pande (CSR Head of Apollo Tyres) is interviewed on the company^s outlook towards its CSR activities. This issue also includes the latest news and updates on CSR, in addition to a snapshot of the Community Needs Assessment conducted by CSO Partners for Apollo Tyres.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Research CSR Apollo Tyres Sustainability

CSO Partners

In CSO Partners first issue of its CSR Digest, the topic of Sustainability Reporting and Assurance is covered. This issue also includes the latest news and updates on CSR, in addition to a snapshot of CSO Partners^ contribution to CII Southern Region^s CSR Strategy Development.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Research Sustainability reporting and assurance CII

CSO Partners

This documented interview of Ms. Harshita Pande (Head CSR, Apollo Tyres) delves deeper into the formation and evolution of Apollo Tyres^ CSR initiatives.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Research CSR HIV/AIDS Sustainability

Audited balance sheet for 2010-2011

Sangita Others, idea

Audited Balance Sheet and Income and Expenses Statement for year 2010-2011

Sangita Governance, Legislations/Policies/Government documents idea

Audited Balance Sheet for year 2010-2011

Sangita Governance, Legislations/Policies/Government documents idea financial documents

Audited Balance Sheet for year 2010-2011

Sangita Governance, Legislations/Policies/Government documents balance sheet financial document pune

Annual Report for the year 2010-2011

Sangita Education, Links to useful websites IDEA Annual report pune education

Transparency International

The 2011 corruption perceptions index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption in 183 countries and territories around the world

CSO Partners Governance, Links to useful websites Corruption index

Arpan Sheth and Madhur Singhal

As part of the report more than than 20 philanthropists and experts on philanthropy in India were interviewed and surveyed. This also includes survey findings of more than 300 wealthy individuals in three major cities across India, including nearly 100 high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) with assets of more than $1 million (excluding primary residence, collectibles and consumables).

CSO Partners Others, philanthropy Individual Philanthropy

The World Bank

Doing Business 2012 is the ninth in a series of Annual Reports benchmarking the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. The report presents quantitative indicators on business regulation and the protection of property rights for 183 economies - from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The data are current as of June 2011.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Business Regulation Economy Property Rights

We lived in a world where easy information has become a prime importance in all professional areas. As such, however small your organisation is, it is important to have an online presence where people like journalists and associates can get information about your organisation. Here are three reasons why nonprofit communicators must have a website:- It is a good PR. It helps journalists or possible partners to give easy access to your issues or your organization. Very cost-effective. Building and maintaining a website has become cheap. It will cost approximately $30 or Rs 1500 a year. You can present yourself and your organization in a comprehensive manner. As the web space is almost unlimited you have all the space required to explain in detail how your organization works and what are your achievements. However, you must not overdo it. Be factual and never over do any self promotion. If you are having difficulties in building a website or a web blog there are many free sites that offer free services. These sites will enable you to create your blog with a click of a few buttons. So, checkout the search engines for free tools and begin your online journey!

Soumitra Governance, Research website portal microsite

Here is the Framework & Guidelines for Use of Social Media for Government Organisations

Soumitra Education, Research Social Media Government Organization Guidelines for Social Media

KPMG - India

This report provides the historical perspective of CSR and moves on to the trends in the market. It also takes the readers through the best practices by illustrating a few case studies

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Research CSR corporate social responsibility sustainability intiatives

Full O Dreamz

Observations on the CSR Rating of India's 500 largest companies

Soumitra Corporate Social Responsibility, Research CSR Corporate Social Responsibility CSR Ratings Company CSR

John Converse

The Author explains about the substantive difference we as human beings can make to this earth...

Soumitra Environment, Links to useful websites John Converse Greener World Green Earth Go Green Recycle

Civil Society News

Discussions between the government and activists on drafting a proposed Lokpal Bill are as yet in their early stages. Several contentious issues are still to be taken up and it seems unlikely that the 30 June deadline set for a final draft will be met.

Soumitra Human Rights, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Lokpal Bill Corruption in India Anna Hazare Fight against Corruption

IIT Kanpur & Delhi Graduates

This 15th August saw the launch of rtination.com, the first ever system to file Right to Information(RTI) Act Applications online. The system has been developed and launched by graduates from IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi.

CSO Partners Governance, Links to useful websites RTI Filing Online RTI filing RTI Nation

J Court Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2003

The methodology and findings of a comprehensive governance assessment survey conducted in India as part of the World Governance Survey (WGS) project.

CSO Partners Governance, Research Indicators of governance World Governance Survey (WSG) freedom of expression and association governance assessments perceptions of governance across India

Navaz Kotwal ; Venkatesh Nayak CHRI, 2009

An analysis of a survey conducted to evaluate the performance of public authorities in carrying out their duties described under the RTI Act and the RTI Rules issued by the government of Gujarat.

CSO Partners Governance, Research Right to Information Act 2005 paralegals legal information centres RTI training workshops mismanagement of public funds legal services authority

Sohini Paul; Venkatesh Nayak(ed); J N Singh(ed) Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative UP VAN

This paper focuses specifically on analysing and promoting the information disclosure provisions contained in the Panchayati Raj Act and related rules operational in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

CSO Partners Governance, Research Uttar Pradesh Panchayati Raj Act 1947 Right to Information Act 2005 panchayati raj institutions in Uttar Pradesh laws governing RTI

Rachel Slater Chasca Twyman Overseas Development Institute

The paper develops a conceptual framework for analysing urban natural resources and the contributions they make to livelihoods, and seeks to identify what pro-poor intervention to support natural resource-dependent livelihoods might look like.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research Natural resources and livelihoods ‘hidden’ urban livelihoods common property resources urban development policies community based natural resource management

International Labour Organisation 2006

This report provides empirical research as well as quantitative assessments of the realities of youth labour markets to build a framework from which countries can identify the main challenges facing youth that would enable them in designing appropriate policies

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research youth employment crisis Economic and Social Council global employment trends labour market information hours of work and poverty labour market analyses youth labour force

Sonia Bhalotra, UNESCO/ Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2010

This paper identifies social inequalities in education in India and the extent to which they have narrowed during 1993-2005, a period of rapid economic growth

CSO Partners Education, Research Social expenditure in poor countries National Campaign for Universal Education Operation Blackboard children’s education participation caste gaps in education household education

Dr Nidhi Singal, UNESCO/ Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2010

The paper provides an in-depth and critical examination of efforts being undertaken under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) towards the education of children with disabilities.

CSO Partners Education, Research Disability estimates in India educational status of children with disabilities home based education integrated education for children with disabilities National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People

R Govinda, National University of Educational, Planning and Administration India UNESCO, 2009

An overview of critical messages derived from various experiences in making schools more accessible and inclusive.

CSO Partners Education, Research Cognitive development of learners participation in schooling and learning teacher training inclusive schools and enhanced learning Education for all Dakar Declaration Framework for Action 2000

Yusuf Sayed; Ramya Subrahmanian; Crain Soudien; Nazir Carrim; Sarada Balgopalan; Fhulu Nekhwevha

A paper from the UK’s Department for International Development looks at how exclusion continues to shape the education sectors of developing countries.

CSO Partners Education, Research Inclusive education policies participation in schooling role of curriculum in learning higher education and public employment race-based differentiation inclusive teaching an learning

ISEC is engaged in interdisciplinary research in analytical and applied areas of social sciences, encompassing diverse aspects of change and development. The website provides information on current projects and research papers published by faculty.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Links to useful websites Social science research Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) development studies methods and applications in social science research

R S Despande; V M Rao Institute for Social and Economic Change 2004

This study focuses on locating the growth trends in coarse cereals, the main component in the food basket of the poor in India, and identifies the constraints in cultivation, technology and marketing.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research Coarse cereals food basket of the poor inferior crops cropping pattern of drought-prone areas in India price of coarse cereals food processing industry

International Labour Organisation Geneva 2010

This book is a comprehensive discussion of issues of labour migration in a globalizing world. It highlights ILO perspectives on labour migration, the connections between migration and development, decent work for migrant workers, the normative framework for protection of migrant rights, the governance of international labour migration, and the role of social dialogue and international cooperation.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research labour migration international migration migrant workers rights international labour standards international migration policy

Barbara Harriss White Oxford University 2010

This essay explores theoretical and practical problems arising from the impact of liberalization / globalization and its latest effect on India’s informal economy - heavily populated by petty commodity producers (PCP) and petty traders.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research capitalist accumulation India’s informal economy liberalisation/capitalism petty commodity producers (PCP) labour class social institutions India’s black economy global value chains

U A Shimray; M D Usha Devi Institute for Social and Economic Change 2009

This paper is a study of out-migration patterns in the north east, conducted with the purpose of establishing connections between education and migration from the north eastern region (NER).

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research out-migration patterns Centre for Human Resource Development education and migration youth out-migration “brain drain” in the north east north eastern council (NEC)

Ministry of Corporate Affairs - GOI

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has published a set of voluntary guidelines for responsible business, which will add value to the operations and contribute towards the long-term sustainability of businesses.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Legislations/Policies/Government documents CSR Voluntary Guidelines responsible governance practices ethical business practices social inclusiveness and equity

Association for Democratic Reforms

This is a report on criminal and financial background of the candidates contesting phase 4 elections in Bihar. This report is based on the self-declared affidavits filed by the contesting candidates with the Election Commission of India.

okfomebasvf Governance, Research Bihar elections candidate background

M Ivanic; W Martin World Bank, 2009

This report assesses the basic effects of food price increases on household income in low-income countries.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research Basic food commodities global food prices livelihood vulnerability and poverty

C Lapenu; D Pierret International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2008

This guide addresses the evaluation of the governance of microfinance institutions using an approach from the point of view of “stakeholder analysis”

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research (MFIs) governance of micro finance institutions evaluating micro finance governance foundation for good governance

L L Iannotti; J M Tielsch; M M Black American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2009

The prevalence of iron deficiency among infants and young children living in developing countries is high. This article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reviewed 26 randomised controlled trials of preventive, oral iron supplementation in young children (aged 0–59 mo) living in developing countries to ascertain the associated health benefits and risks

CSO Partners Health, Research iron deficiency among infants and young children oral iron supplementation American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Lucy Gilson, Jane Doherty, Rene Loewenson and Victoria Francis WHO Commission

The final report of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Health Systems Knowledge Network looks at how inequity can be addressed through health systems.

CSO Partners Health, Research World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Health Systems Knowledge Network universal health coverage social empowerment WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health health inequity health system development

World Health Organisation (WHO)

Globalisation is putting the social cohesion of many countries under stress, and health systems, as key constituents of the architecture of contemporary societies, are clearly not performing as well as they could and as they should. This paper explores why a renewal of primary health care (PHC), is necessary now, more than ever

CSO Partners Health, Research PHC reforms health systems’ response public health policies low growth health economies primary health care movement

P Courtright; S Lewallen Community Eye Health Journal, 2009

This article from the Community Eye Health Journal explores the gender dimensions of vision loss. The document considers the different risk factors faced by men and women including social, cultural and biological differences

CSO Partners Health, Research global population-based blindness Community Eye Health Journal gender dimensions of vision loss

D Lippoldt Groupe d^Economie Mondiale , 2008

This policy brief examines key dimensions of the institutional changes with respect to intellectual property rights (IPRs) in developing countries.

CSO Partners Governance, Research World Intellectual Property Organisation Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) intellectual property standards capital accumulation FDI

A Chong; M Gradstein Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes

CSO Partners Governance, Research World Values Survey education and democratic attitudes models of economic development

A Shaw Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata 2007

This study examines India’s progress in the provision of basic amenities to urban areas at the state level during the period 1991-2001, and attempts to explain difference in performance across states

CSO Partners Governance, Research Basic amenities in urban areas interrelationships between health and education urban local bodies in India water supply and environmental hygiene access to public health services

Association for Democartic Reforms

This is a report on the pending criminal cases of the MLAs in the outgoing Bihar Legislative Assembly. Here are the highlights: -358 candidates with pending criminal cases contested elections from major parties in 2005. -All parties including LJP, RJD, JD(U), BJP, BSP, INC, CPI(M)(L)(L) & CPI gave tickets to candidates with pending criminal cases in 2005 elections. -117 current MLAs, (i.e. 50%) have pending criminal cases against them according to declarations during last elections.

okfomebasvf Governance, Research Political party MLAs MLAs with pending criminal cases

Ashoka's Changemakers

Rishi Environment, Links to useful websites Geotourism environment protection communities

Planning Commission of India; Human Development Resource Centre, UNDP

A compilation of case studies of the government’s development initiatives that have successfully achieved their intended goals and made a signal contribution to improvement in governance and implementation practices.

CSO Partners Governance, Research Human development and social services partnerships in education community participation in India women’s empowerment through self-help groups participatory poverty reduction

Pradeep Sharma, Assistant Resident Representative, UNDP India

This paper concentrates on the role of civil society in India in promoting the concept of social audit through four methods: public hearings, report cards, budget information, and social audit under panchayati raj

CSO Partners Governance, Research Civil society in India Right to Information Act Democratic Governance Fellowship Programme people-centered development panchayati raj systems social audit role of civil society

C Buchanan; V Farr; M Flood Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2010

This article forms part of a larger publication on directions for the reduction of small arms control. The authors emphasise a gender equity approach to reduce risks and bolster resilience to insecurity and violence

CSO Partners Women, Research http://www.hdcentre.org/publications/missing-pieces

J G Stotsky Finance and Development, IMF, 2007

This article argues that the understanding of how public policies have different effects on men and women has improved in recent years and is influencing macroeconomic policymaking. Reduced gender disparities can lead to improved macroeconomic performance.

CSO Partners Women, Research Gender-budgeting gender disparities effect of public policies on women and men gender consideration in budgetary process

Government of India

The Women’s Reservation Bill proposes 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies on a rotation basis for 15 years

CSO Partners Women, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Women’s Reservation Bill one-third reservation for women

Gyana Ranjan Panda, Kaushik Ganguly Oxfam India, 2010

Released by Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability & Oxfam India, this study reviews the framework on adaptation to climate change in India and provides an estimation of the public resources devoted to this issue.

CSO Partners Environment, Research Climate adaptation India’s water resources Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC)

GRAIN 2009

This article talks about the inability of the global food system to fulfil its most basic function of feeding people while agribusiness corporations that control the food chain are amassing billions of dollars in profits. The authors assert that with accelerating climate change, driven in large part by this very model of agriculture, the situation is bound to rapidly worsen.

CSO Partners Environment, Research Global food system agribusiness corporations international food system and climate crisis

C Nellemann (ed), M MacDevette (ed), T Manders (ed) GRID Arendal, 2009

This report provides the first summary by the UN of how climate change, water stress, invasive pests and land degradation may impact world food security, food prices and how we may be able to feed the world in a more sustainable manner.

CSO Partners Environment, Research World food security water stress recycling food waste food energy efficiency environmental food crisis

Nidhi Dhamija, Shashanka Bhide, 2009

This paper examines whether there has been change in the influence of factors such as village level infrastructure, household size and composition, and economic growth on chronic poverty dynamics in different periods of time.

CSO Partners Poverty, Research Chronic poverty consumption inequality determinants of poverty dynami

Amita Shah, Aasha Kapur Mehta, 2008

This paper tries to revisit the existing literature on the Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Scheme (MEGS), to identify and understand the issues that contribute to employment-induced poverty reduction in the Indian context.

CSO Partners Poverty, Research NREGS EGS in Maharashtra employment-induced poverty reduction

Nomogaia Foundation, 2008

This Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) manual aims to systematically identify, predict and respond to projects^ potential impacts on human rights

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Research Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) corporate responsibility for human rights minimal labour recruitment projects’ impact on human rights

Christian Aid, 2009

This paper contends that although the private sector is a vital player in poverty eradication, it very often under performs in developing countries. The author argues that new policies, regulations and institutions are needed to ensure that markets function fairly and inclusively, private sector does not harm poor communities and private sector redresses any harm it causes to the poor.

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Asian Centre for Human Rights, India, 2007

Despite the widespread use of torture by the police and armed forces in India, the country has no laws to address the problem. This paper gives a background of the use of torture in India, highlighting some recent incidents of gross human rights violation and institutional mechanisms which facilitate such actions.

CSO Partners Human Rights, Research Prevention of torture in India torture in armed conflict situations torture against Dalits Monikanta massacre Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958 custodial deaths in India

Amnesty International, 2009

The Amnesty International Report 2009 is a record of the state of human rights during 2008, in 157 countries and territories around the world.

CSO Partners Human Rights, Legislations/Policies/Government documents The Amnesty International Report 2009 armed conflict and insecurity International Criminal Court (ICC) racism and discrimination

T Whitman; J Gomez; Institute for Inclusive Security, Hunt Alternatives Fund, 2009

This guide provides the international community with concrete strategies for bringing women into government.

CSO Partners Governance, Research Women and governance women’s role in government women’s inclusion women’s security women in electoral processes

R K Jha; S Bhattacharyya, Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2010

This paper examines selected components of the social security system in India and compares them with their OECD counterparts.

CSO Partners Poverty, Research Social security in India pension provisions in unorganised sector The New Pension System organised formal sector workers Potential Support Ratio (PSR)

Sandeep

This is a Wood Free Light weight Indian rickshaw designed and marketed by us at Cost basis. This could be a great constituent of Income Generation programs by social welfare organization. For more information please contact

Laxman Meena Livelihood, Research Income generations Indian rickshaw City transportation livelihood

D Walden; N Hall; A Spalton; World Vision Plan, 2009

Children and young people are particularly vulnerable to disasters - one in every three survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami was a woman or child under the age of 15. However, research has shown that children and young people do have an active role to play in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and should be viewed as agents of change rather than just victims.

CSO Partners Disasters, Research Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster risk reduction UNISDR children on the frontline children in a changing climate Hyogo Framework for Action Child Focus Groups

K Ekdahl, MENA Businesswomen^s Network, 2008

The presentation gives an overview of important guidelines that need to be followed for fundraising efforts to yield results.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Research Fundraising basics Principles of fundraising fundraising process sources of funds for NGOs grants proposal MENA Businesswomen^s Network

The Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia, 2009

This report aims to provide users with the tools to understand how pension funds can act as catalysts for sustainable development.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Research Asia’s pension funds environmental social and governance (ESG) best practice corporate strategies and reporting corporate governance

Dr.Anjali Malpani, M.D. and Dr.Aniruddha Malpani, M.D.

When we fall ill, we expect our doctor to treat us and help us to get better. However, patients are getting increasingly dissatisfied with the medical care they receive. Many feel that doctors are too busy to give them the personal attention they need, while others feel that the medical profession has become commercialised and uncaring, leading to increasing tension between patients and doctors.read more...

Sidharth Health, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Medical care Doctor Patient Relationship Information Therapy Remain Healthy Caregiving Chronic Illne

Water Awards to SSD by UNESCO Asia Director

Balakrishna Livelihood, Research Award; water; Livelihood

Global Compact, 2008

This publication offers practical guidance to companies that want to take a proactive approach to human rights within their business operations.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Links to useful websites Global Compact Performance model corporate citizenship human rights processes in companies human rights in business practice

Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007

It is estimated that up to 130 million Indians live in chronic poverty. This briefing paper summarises the characteristics of and explanations for this phenomenon, discusses the context for policy today, and proposes a series of recommendations for policy changes that would move India towards eradicating poverty.

CSO Partners Poverty, Research Social protection in India spatial analysis poverty elimination in India social status and discrimination casual labourers chronic poverty health care for the poor

World Bank, 2010

2010^s Global Economic Prospects report examines the consequences of the financial crisis on both the short- and medium-term growth prospects of developing countries.

CSO Partners Poverty, Research 2010^s Global Economic Prospects impact of financial crisis medium–term growth of developing countries macroeconomic stability

R Radhakrishna; K Hanumantha Rao; C Ravi; B Sambi Reddy CPRC working paper 2007

The paper aims to improve our understanding of the determinants of chronic poverty by considering economic, demographic and social factors. It attempts to answer specific questions such as: How important is household income as a determinant of chronic poverty? What factors inhibit escape from chronic poverty? How different are the ‘other poor’ from the chronically poor?

CSO Partners Poverty, Research child malnutrition chronic under nutrition standard of living index estimation methods chronic poverty

Quarterly Newsletter of Habitat for Humanity India

Kedarnath Women, Links to useful websites Safe Decent and Affordable Homes Women and Home

Amitra Sudan Chakrabortty,Lecturer-in-Law,The ICFAI University,Tripura

How to exercise Right To Information under Right To Information Act,2005

Nasim Human Rights, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Right To Information

C Ricardo; et al; Salud y Gênero; ECOS; Instituto PAPAI Instituto PROMUNDO, 2009

This manual, part of an initiative called Program M, includes a series of group educational activities to promote young women’s awareness about gender inequities, rights and health.

CSO Partners Women, Research Young women and work identity and relationships among young women gender inequities traditional gender divisions sexual and reproductive health problems and women Program

M Medina Martins; P Viegras; R. Mimoso; et al.; NANE Women^s Rights Association (Hungary); Associati

The manual outlines some of the practical and organisational considerations required to set up support groups for survivors of domestic violence in a way that enhances their safety and self esteem.

CSO Partners Women, Links to useful websites Survivors of domestic violence safety and self esteem of women support groups for victims of domestic violence Women’s Shelter Association of Women Against Violence

International Women^s Rights Action Watch - Asia Pacific, 2008

This publication aims to strengthen existing efforts around the ratification and effective use of the OP-CEDAW at the national level. It contains practical information and tools that can be used for the promotion of women’s human rights

CSO Partners Women, Research Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women promotion of women’s human rights

These tools have been developed to support governments, their development partners and other stakeholders to address equity and inclusion in education sector plans.

CSO Partners Education, Links to useful websites Equity and inclusion in education education sector planning transitional schools universal access to primary education gender audit gender empowerment measure

Roshan Chitrakar

An analysis of the ways in which countries of the South Asia region are working towards enabling girls to overcome barriers, the study brings together results of available literature on girls’ education in South Asia. The barrier to education for girls is often compounded by other issues like caste, ethnicity, religion, poverty and remoteness, the study notes.

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Plan International

Focusing on girls in the global economy, the report warns that failing to send girls to school is costing the world’s poorest countries billions of pounds each year

CSO Partners Education, Research girls in the global economy education budgets Because I am A Girl girls’education girls’ rights out of school

M Bandyopadhyay, R Subrahmanian; Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equ

This review paper draws on recent data to map the access and participation rates of girls relative to boys.

CSO Partners Education, Research Gender Parity Index All India Educational Survey National Programme of Education for Girls at Elementary Level Women’s Residential Institute for Training and Education social inequality

P. Nair; International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2009

This paper examines the relationships between various political and religious forces in India in order to obtain a better insight into their co-operated roles in furthering the “Hindutva” (a doctrine that holds that the Indian nation is defined by Hindu culture) agenda.

CSO Partners Education, Research Political and religious forces Hindutva Hindu culture RSS’s schools Hindu Rashtra faith-inspired schools

Nata Duvvury; Nandini Prasad; Nanda Kishore ICRW Report 2006

This manual is a guide for community-based organisations to facilitate a community-led and -owned process that addresses stigma and gender-based violence in HIV/AIDS prevention efforts.

CSO Partners Women, Research Gender-based violence in HIV/AIDS violence against women stigma in HIV/AIDS participatory learning and action (PLA) community-led action research (CLAR) International Centre for Research on Women

Pradeep Panda; Jayoti Gupta; Indika Bulankulame; Nandita Bhatla; Swati Chakraborty; Nata Duvvury ICR

This study brings together the results of three site studies in India and Sri Lanka on social protection exploring the links of women’s owership of property and inheritance rights and their experience of domestic violence.

CSO Partners Women, Research Inheritance rights of women domestic violence in India property ownership social protection for women patriarchy and societal norms in South Asia

Srilatha Batliwala Association for Women^s Rights in Development, 2008

How can an understanding of feminist movements in the current global context be achieved? This document presents ten case studies from different regions of the world that have mobilised women to make a difference. Examples come from many countries including India, Iran, Mexico and South Africa

CSO Partners Women, Research Association for Women^s Rights in Development feminist movements women’s movement in India Dalit Women’s Movement in India Dalit Mahila Samiti (DMS) leadership of local women

L Rosales; F Mwebe; K Mikhailidi; R Samuel; J Jackson

This briefing paper was prepared as a contribution to the meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on ‘The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child’, conducted from February 26 to March 9, 2007. It is a collection of reports that shares some of World Vision’s programmes and the lessons learned to improve the status of girls.

CSO Partners Women, Research Abuse prevention systems child labour incentives for girls’ education United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) discrimination and violence against girls

J Leerlooijer; et al; WPF; STOP AIDS NOW!

Worldwide, extensive experience, evidence and information is available showing what works and what does not when implementing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This tool attempts to document the most important evidence in a way that is useful to organisations with limited time and resources, working in the day to day practice of SHRH education for young people.

CSO Partners Health, Research HIV prevention interventions for young people sexual and reproductive health and rights International Conference on Population and Development health promotion models Stop Aids Now

G Kothari Community Eye Health Journal, 2009

In the slums and rural areas of India, the prevalence of visual impairment, blindness, and childhood blindness is high. This article argues that in order to improve the eye health of children and the community in these areas, it is important to understand the influence women and mothers have over children’s eye health and the eye health of the community as a whole.

CSO Partners Health, Research Visual impairment among India’s poor Child Eye Care Charitable Trust (CECCT) Operation Eyesight awareness of eye care in India role of community health workers in eye care common eye diseases

UNFPA May 2009

Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is an ambitious scheme for promoting safe motherhood interventions launched under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). This report is an assessment of the scheme in large states, namely, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh which constitute 39% of the total population of the country.

CSO Partners Health, Research Janani Suraksha Yojana the National Rural Health Mission safe motherhood interventions ASHAs neo-natal care of rural women primary health centres JSY activities incentives under JSY

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare May 2009

This publication presents a snapshot of the Health Ministry’s efforts over the last four years to reach quality health services to the remotest corners of India.

CSO Partners Health, Research National Rural Health Mission maternal mortality ratio health services in India Janani Suraksha Yojana Indian systems of medicine National Health System Resource Centre

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, 2007

Aimed at development workers and community members alike, this manual is the outcome of a three-year project exploring the traditional media and forms of communication in local communities in the Himalayan region and how this can be used to deliver messages that contribute to the improvement of livelihoods.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research Traditional media in the Himalayan region ICIMOD’s Alternative Media Project alternative media products for local communities

M K Pandey Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India

Using the 58th round of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) data surveyed in 2002, this paper attempts to analyze the depth of poverty and examines the causal relationship between disability and poverty among India’s elderly.

CSO Partners Poverty, Research World Health Organisation (WHO) disability and poverty among Indian elderly use of 58th round of National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) data poverty and income inequality average income/expenditure among elderly

Vikramaditya Singh Malik, Roshan Santhalia

This paper begins with an attempt to define the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) with relation to the newer concept of environmental ethics.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Research Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Ethics Carbon trading UNFCCC environmental operations social and environmental responsibility

The World Education Research Association (WERA) is an association of national, regional, and international speciality research associations aimed at advancing education research as a scientific and scholarly field.

CSO Partners Education, Links to useful websites The World Education Research Association (WERA) education research policies and practices inclusiveness in education research

The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies is a free e-journal published by The Institute for Education Policy Studies (IEPS).

CSO Partners Education, Links to useful websites The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies Institute for Education Policy Studies (IEPS) Left analysis of education non-academic labour educational theory and pedagogy

Himanshu Dev North Carolina State University, 2009

This paper explores and analyses the global movement in ‘Education for All’ as a whole and tries to anticipate its future. How successful has the movement been till now and where does it take us from here, and what needs to be done if the target for education for all is not achieved by 2015?

CSO Partners Education, Research Education for All global movement for education United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Inter-Governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations

Karen Sudmeier-Rieux and Neville Ash

This note was developed to provide guidance on ways to integrate environmental concerns into disaster risk reduction strategies (DRR) at the local and national levels, and the benefits of doing so.

CSO Partners Disasters, Research International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Gland Switzerland disaster risk reduction strategies (DRR) health ecosystems for human security

Nata Duvvury; Nandini Prasad; Nanda Kishore

This manual is a guide for community-based organisations to facilitate a community-led and -owned process that addresses stigma and gender-based violence in HIV/AIDS prevention efforts.

CSO Partners Women, Links to useful websites Gender-based violence in HIV/AIDS violence against women stigma in HIV/AIDS participatory learning and action (PLA) community-led action research (CLAR) International Centre for Research on Women

J Leerlooijer; et al; WPF; STOP AIDS NOW!

Worldwide, extensive experience, evidence and information is available showing what works and what does not when implementing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This tool attempts to document the most important evidence in a way that is useful to organisations with limited time and resources, working in the day to day practice of SHRH education for young people.

CSO Partners Health, Links to useful websites Worldwide extensive experience evidence and information is available showing what works and what does not when implementing sexual working in the day to day practice of SHRH education for young people

The Centre on Philanthropy at Indiana University & Bank of America

The study focuses on offers issues driving charitable activities among affluent households in USA. The study is the result of randomly surveying over 20,000 households in high net worth neighborhoods across the country about their giving in 2007. The research methodology offers new insights into philanthropy of wealthy donors.

Soumitra Corporate Social Responsibility, Research High Networth Individuals

Rekha Mehra and Mary Hill Rojas, International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW)

This paper reviews current thinking and practice on increasing agricultural productivity, both subsistence and commercial agriculture, and examines what is known about women's roles in both sectors.

CSO Partners Women, Research Household food security women^s role in agriculture high-value agriculture self-employed small scale farms gender divisions of labour women wage workers in agriculture

PreventionWeb

This concluding chapter gives a recap of the disaster-related challenges facing the world, and highlights the need for urgent action. It also makes policy recommendations and suggests strategies that can be adopted by countries to mitigate disaster risk.

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PreventionWeb

This chapter reviews practice in five areas that address the disaster risk–poverty nexus: strengthening livelihood sustainability in rural areas, partnerships for urban and local governance, innovative financial mechanisms, environmental management, and community- and local-level disaster risk reduction.

CSO Partners Disasters, Research Livelihood sustainability in rural areas community disaster risk reduction environmental management in low-income countries disasters resilience

PreventionWeb

In 2005, 168 countries adopted the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), a comprehensive set of three strategic goals and five priorities for action. This chapter reviews countries progress towards the achievement of the strategic goals and priorities for action. The chapter also examines the extent to which disaster risk reduction is being addressed in strategies for poverty reduction and adaptation to climate change.

CSO Partners Disasters, Research Hyogo Framework for Action economic and environmental assets of communities HFA Priorities for Action disaster risk reduction organisations disaster risk reduction governance

PreventionWeb

This chapter explores three underlying drivers of the disaster risk–poverty nexus: vulnerable rural livelihoods, poor urban governance and declining ecosystems. Additionally the chapter looks at the magnifying effect of climate change as a global driver of risk.

CSO Partners Disasters, Research Rural livelihoods and poverty poor urban governance declining ecosystems effects of climate change 2005 Niger food crisis

PreventionWeb

This chapter illustrates the impact of two types of disaster risks -concentrated intensive risks and geographically dispersed patterns of extensive disaster risk. The chapter then examines the empirical evidence on how poverty is translated into disaster risk and how disaster impacts are translated into poverty outcomes on the same scale.

CSO Partners Disasters, Research This chapter illustrates the impact of two types of disaster risks -concentrated intensive risks and

PreventionWeb

Given the growing influence of climate change, the focus of this chapter is an analysis of the mortality and economic loss in three weather-related hazards: tropical cyclones, floods and landslides. In addition new insights have been presented into other hazards such as earthquakes, tsunami and drought.

CSO Partners Disasters, Research Global disaster risk disaster risk patterns and trends geographic distribution of disaster risk weather related hazards disaster risk analysis procedures

PreventionWeb

This chapter illustrates the impact of two types of disaster risks -concentrated intensive risks and geographically dispersed patterns of extensive disaster risk. The chapter then examines the empirical evidence on how poverty is translated into disaster risk and how disaster impacts are translated into poverty outcomes on the same scale.

CSO Partners Disasters, Research Deconstructing disasters national disaster databases geological hazards flooding landslides El Nino

PreventionWeb

Given the growing influence of climate change, the focus of this chapter is an analysis of the mortality and economic loss in three weather-related hazards: tropical cyclones, floods and landslides. In addition new insights have been presented into other hazards such as earthquakes, tsunami and drought

CSO Partners Disasters, Research Global disaster risk disaster risk patterns and trends geographic distribution of disaster risk weather related hazards disaster risk analysis procedures

PreventionWeb

This introductory chapter gives an overview of disasters across the world with more than 100,000 fatalities since 1975, specifically highlighting the increased number of disasters that have occurred between 2003 and 2008, and the major concentrations of risk. It explores the disaster risk-poverty nexus - the fact that disasters have a disproportionate impact on the poor in developing countries - and measures that are being taken to reduce disaster risk.

CSO Partners Disasters, Research Disaster risk tropical cyclone Nargis earthquake intensities Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) intensive risks of disasters disaster risk and poverty nexus

PreventionWeb

The Report is the first biennial global assessment of disaster risk reduction prepared in the context of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR). The ISDR, launched in 2000, provides a framework to coordinate actions to address disaster risks at the local, national, regional and international levels.

CSO Partners Disasters, Research UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) global assessment of disaster risk reduction The Hyogo Framework for Action the World Conference on Disaster Reduction

This website provides access to resource material developed by DFID Natural Systems Programme on integrated management of natural resources. NSRP^s research provides practical means to enable and achieve improved livelihoods for the poor.

CSO Partners Poverty, Links to useful websites Natural Resources Systems Programme (NSRP) livelihoods for the poor integrated management of natural resources

Chronic Poverty Research Centre

This report is about the estimated 320 to 443 million people who live trapped in chronic poverty - people who will remain poor for much or all of their lives and whose children are likely to inherit their poverty. The report identifies five main traps that underpin chronic poverty - insecurity, limited citizenship, spatial disadvantage, social discrimination and poor work opportunities - and outlines key policy responses.

CSO Partners Poverty, Research Chronic poverty limited citizenship social discrimination poor work opportunities

Ramesh Bhat, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; Dale Huntington, World Health Organization,

Strengthening management capacity and meeting the need for reproductive and child health (RCH) services is a major challenge for the national RCH programme in India. One of the major challenges, reaching health services to remote areas, is being addressed through public–private partnerships. This document focuses on the development of management capacity for working with the private sector, with three case studies.

CSO Partners Health, Research public-private partnerships reproductive and child health programme National Rural Health Mission health services in rural India

E Van de Poel, AR Hosseinpoor, N Speybroeck

This study contributes to the literature on socio-economic inequality in childhood malnutrition in the developing world. It provides evidence for an association between socio-economic inequality and the average level of malnutrition, and draws attention to different patterns of socio-economic inequality in malnutrition.

CSO Partners Health, Research Malnutrition and socio-economic inequalities WHO health survey data concentration index childhood malnutrition average malnutrition rate in developing countries

Ruth Levine (Centre for Global Development), Cynthia Lloyd (Population Council), Margaret Greene (I

This report is about why and how to put girls at the centre of development. It is about how the health of economies and families depends on protecting the rights of and fostering opportunities for today^s girls. It is about how far girls in many developing countries have come but how far we remain from a world in which girl^s rights are respected.

CSO Partners Health, Research Girl^s rights health of economies physical sexuality informal economic activity Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women Coalition for Adolescent Girls

Miriam Temin and Ruth Levine

Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global describes the most prevalent and serious health problems adolescent girls face in developing countries, linking them to a combination of specific public-health risks and social determinants of health. The report also lays out an agenda for governments, donors, the private sector, and civil society organisations—complete with estimates of indicative costs.

CSO Partners Health, Research new agenda for global health public health risks social determinants of health health problems of adolescent girls

Access Livelihoods Consulting provides affordable and timely professional consulting services to civil society, business, government organizations and individuals so as to facilitate sustainable livelihoods, equitable share and control over growing economy for the poor and thus create wealth and well being to the poor.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Links to useful websites Access Livelihoods Consulting equitable distribution of wealth sustainable livelihoods

The Centre for Global Development is an independent, non-profit policy research organisation that is dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality and to making globalisation work for the poor.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Links to useful websites Centre for Global Development non-profit policy research organisation global poverty and inequality social development projects aid effectiveness

Colin Murray, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester

This paper offers a review of conceptual and methodological issues in the pursuit of livelihood research, with an emphasis on three key questions: How is empirical research at the micro-level related to analysis of the structural, historical and institutional elements of the macro-context? What combination of methods most effectively allows us to trace trajectories of change in diverse livelihoods over time? How are livelihoods frameworks most usefully deployed to investigate and understand processes of differentiation, accumulation and impoverishment?

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research Livelihoods research livelihoods framework sustainable livelihoods impoverishment

Renana Jhabvala, SEWA

Urban vendors, many of whom are women, reach goods and services to all classes of people This paper illustrates the socio-economic profile of street vendors, their contribution to the local economy and how they are perceived in today^s changing urban economy.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research Urban street vendors unorganised sector workers urban economy

Shoba Arun, Richard Heeks & Sharon Morgan, IDPM, University of Manchester, UK, 2004

This paper looks at the way in which the sustainable livelihoods (SL) approach can be applied to the development issue of women^s participation in ICT-based enterprise

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research Gender inequalities ICT-based enterprise for women livelihoods perspective female-led enterprise sustainable livelihoods women^s participation in ICT

M Smale, M Cohen, L Nagarajan, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009

This report provides case-specific responses to key seed policy issues based on the relationship between seed markets and high food prices and answers key questions in the country context for India, Kenya, and Mali including whether high food prices will mean higher seed prices and seed insecurity for poor farmers

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research Food insecurity rising food prices seed markets farmer seed access seed insecurity seed prices

PWESCR is an international advocacy and educational initiative to promote women^s human rights, especially in the context of economic, social and cultural rights, by bringing a gender framework to policy, law and practice at local, national, regional and international levels.

CSO Partners Women, Links to useful websites PWESCR Programme on Women^s Economic Social and Cultural Rights advocacy and educational initiative women^s human rights gender framework to policy and law human rights for dignity

Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex

This briefing summarises the effects of the temporary absence of migrant men on women^s livelihoods in rural West Bengal, India, and northern Bangladesh. It discusses how temporary work migration by men often increases insecurity in women and children living in poor households, leading to food shortages, financial pressure or ill-health. Despite increased risks, the temporary absence of migrant men can sometimes facilitate greater autonomy for women.

CSO Partners Women, Research women^s livelihoods in rural West Bengal food shortages children living in poor households temporary work migration informal social protection

Govind Kelkar

An attempt to decipher the gendered impact of climate change in indigenous societies in Asia with a particular focus on Adivasis.

CSO Partners Women, Research Adivasi women climate change Adivasi socio-economic systems ethnic and tribal groups of India gendered roles in Adivasi communities

Research Foundation for Governance in India works in the area of evolving legal thought on ^good governance^ through involving youth from different spheres. The objective of the Foundation is to help create strong processes of governance and an aware citizenry, primarily through seeking reforms in the legal and political arena.

CSO Partners Governance, Links to useful websites Research Foundation for Governance in India inner party democracy governance awareness legal education reforms reforms in the legal and political arena

Samuel Paul, Public Affairs Centre, Bangalore

This paper summarises some recent initiatives to enhance public accountability in India, divided into two categories: initiatives from the government and those that emanated primarily from civil society.

CSO Partners Governance, Research good governance Public Affairs Centre economic crisis of 1991 market reforms liberalisation policies liberalisation of trade and industry public accountability

Kelly A Dhru

Right to property in India, development induced displacement, special economic zone, Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2002

CSO Partners Governance, Research Drawing from his personal experience of losing land the author explores the issue of land acquisition in India.

Donika Dimovska, Stephanie Sealy, Sofi Bergkvist, Hanna Pernefeldt

This report examines 33 innovative financing and delivery models for healthcare from developing countries, ranging from donor-driven initiatives to large-scale government-subsidised efforts and for-profit businesses.

CSO Partners Health, Research Government health resources private health sector in developing countries financing and delivery of health services pro-poor healthcare

Regien G Biesma, Ruairı Brugha, Andrew Harmer, Aisling Walsh, Neil Spicer and Gill Walt

This paper reviews country-level evidence about the impact of global health initiatives (GHIs), such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, the World Bank Multi-country AIDS Program (MAP) and the US President^s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in middle and low income countries

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The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), an independent non government organisation established in Geneva in September 1996, contributes to a better understanding of development and environment concerns in the context of international trade.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Links to useful websites The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) international trade and sustainable development aid for trade

FNTG, established in 1999 acts as an open space for funders who regardless of their specific areas of grant-making seek to understand how global issues and policies impact efforts to achieve long-term social change.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Links to useful websites Funders Network on Trade and Globalisation Seattle Ministerial Meeting WTO impacts of trade and economic globalisation

V Ahuja, M Dhawan, L Maarse, South Asia Pro Poor Livestock Policy Programme

Based on a survey of 180 rural households in West Bengal raising Kuroiler^s (a dual purpose bird introduced by Keggfarms Pvt Ltd) and a control group consisting of households keeping desi birds, the study examines the impact of the bird flu outbreak and associated control measures on income and nutritional aspects of households

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research Impact of bird flu on livelihoods in West Bengal Kuroilers Keggfarms Private Limited dual-purpose bird

A Giuliani, R Wenger, S Wymann von Dach

This paper highlights gender as a very important factor in determining vulnerability in disaster risk reduction (DRR). The paper also looks at DRR in relation to livelihoods. People in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to disasters as they often live in high-risk areas, have low coping capacities, and have no form of insurance or other safety nets.

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An information base on women^s development that facilitates generation of data on contemporary issues of women and development, and gender perspective in policies.

CSO Partners Women, Links to useful websites National Resource Centre for Women women^s development gender perspectives gender equality empowerment of women in India

The Women^s Resource Centre (WRC) is a charity that supports women^s organisations to be more effective and sustainable. WRC provides training, information, resources and support on a range of organisational development issues.

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UNIFEM

This report lays out the rationale for a new accountability agenda for women^s rights and gender equality. It provides evidence of an accountability deficit, as well as promising government and civil society initiatives and institutional reforms that improve accountability to women.

CSO Partners Women, Research Women^s rights gender equality gender and accountability accountability to women

ISEE is a not-for-profit, member-governed, organisation dedicated to advancing understanding of the relationships among ecological, social, and economic systems for the mutual well-being of nature and people.

CSO Partners Disasters, Links to useful websites International Society for Ecological Economics economic systems ecological economics

A core project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and building on the results of the former IHDP project on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC), earth system governance is defined as the interrelated and increasingly integrated system of formal and informal rules, and actor-networks at all levels of human society (from local to global) that are set up to steer societies towards preventing, mitigating, and adapting to global and local environmental change.

CSO Partners Disasters, Links to useful websites Earth System Governance Project global and environmental change IHDP

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

This report demonstrates that development processes intervene in the translation of physical exposure into natural disaster events. The report argues that disaster risk is not inevitable and offers examples of good practice in disaster risk reduction that can be built into ongoing development planning policy.

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The World Bank Group

The Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change (EACC) study was initiated by the World Bank in early 2008, to develop an estimate of adaptation costs for developing countries and to help decision makers in developing countries understand and assess risks posed by climate change, and design better adaptation strategies.

CSO Partners Disasters, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Global climate change Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change (EACC) adaptation costs for developing countries greenhouse gases

Asian Development Bank – Operations Evaluations Department

The study seeks to (i) provide an overview of the scale and nature of IR in ADB operations; (ii) examine the extent of application of the IR policy; (iii) review trends; (iv) make pertinent comparisons with other systems; and (v) provide OED^s assessment of the policy^s relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability within the context of past experience, changing circumstances, and new demands.

CSO Partners Governance, Research Land acquisition R&R

Gerald C Nelson, Mark Rosegrant, Jawoo Koo, Richard Robertson, Timothy Sulser, Tingju Zhu, Siwa Msan

This Food Policy Report presents research results that quantify various climate-change impacts occurring across the world, assesses the consequences for food security, and estimates the investments that would offset the negative consequences for human well-being

CSO Partners Disasters, Research Food Policy Report climate change impact food security agriculture IFPRI

The NGO Climate Change Treaty is a template, developed by Greenpeace and Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), for the new international climate change treaty expected to come through at the Copenhagen summit in December 2009.

CSO Partners Disasters, Legislations/Policies/Government documents NGO Climate Change Treaty Copenhagen Summit template for climate treaty

Melinda T. Tuan

The report describes and analyzes eight approaches to integrating cost in measuring and/or estimating social value creation. These include two classical methodologies (cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis) and six promising approaches that have been developed by philanthropic and nonprofit organizations in the last decade.

CSO Partners Governance, Research Social Value

The Global Media Centre works to increase the social impact of foundations and policy organisations through advanced media outreach

CSO Partners Governance, Links to useful websites Global Media Centre media outreach

Alliance is the leading magazine for philanthropy and social investment worldwide. It provides news and analysis of what^s happening in these sectors across the world, and a forum for exchange of ideas and experiences among practitioners

CSO Partners Governance, Links to useful websites Alliance Magazine social investment news Alliance Publishing Trust philanthropy development practitioners social workers

UNDP

The guide is produced as part of a UNIFEM, UNDP, and Gender at Work initiative called `Gender and Democratic Governance in Development, which aims to improve the governance of basic services provision for women

CSO Partners Governance, Research Gender-sensitive basic services gender and democratic governance gender-responsive statistics gender-based violence women^s access to health services

Shambhu Ghatak

This report discusses multiple crises in rural India, which have adversely affected livelihoods, human development indicators and employment. It endorses strengthening of citizen^s rights including the Right to Information.

CSO Partners Governance, Research Rural development suicides environment livelihoods globalisation right to food displacement genetically modified (GM) crops human development

The Centre on Philanthropy at Indiana University & Bank of America

Conducted by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University for Bank of America, the 2008 Study of High Net Worth Philanthropy focuses on offers issues driving charitable activities among affluent households in USA. The study is the result of randomly surveying over 20,000 households in high net worth neighborhoods across the country about their giving in 2007. For the first time the study separates high net worth households‘ giving into those donations made from their own personal income or assets, referred to as “direct giving”, from those donations made from their private foundations, donor-advised funds, or charitable trusts, referred to as “foundation giving” in this report. The research methodology offers new insights into philanthropy of wealthy donors.

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The bill proposes repeal of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act of 1976, giving more teeth to enforcement agencies to regulate donations from abroad.

CSO Partners Governance, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Bill Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act of 1976 foreign contributions funds for voluntary organisations foreign funding

A bill amending the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, proposes that the government can acquire land for a private entity only after the latter has purchased 70% of the required land on its own.

CSO Partners Governance, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill 2007 Land Acquisition Act 1894

The Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition works to make changes in UK company law to minimise negative impacts of companies on people and the environment, and to maximise companies contribution to sustainable societies

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Links to useful websites CORE Coalition sustainable societies UK company law human rights abuses abroad

The National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur collects and maintains information on earthquake engineering and undertakes outreach activities to mitigate earthquake disaster.

CSO Partners Disasters, Links to useful websites earthquake engineering NICEE National Information Centre for Earthquake Engineering

The Centre works to build disaster resilient communities and to establish networks among countries through many programmes including personnel exchanges in this field.

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GCE is a civil society movement that aims to end the global education crisis. This website gives information regarding the organisations programmes and campaigns the world over.

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Established in 2008, ASER Centre is an attempt to institutionalise and build capacity at state and district levels to evaluate performance in the social sector. The Annual Status of Education Report is a citizens report card on the learning levels of children throughout India.

CSO Partners Education, Links to useful websites education report ASER learning levels of children

Janaagraha is a not-for-profit institution started in December 2001 by Ramesh and Swati Ramanathan. From a movement to include people^s participation in public governance, it has now evolved into a robust institution for citizenship and democracy.

CSO Partners Governance, Links to useful websites Citizenship democracy people^s participation public governance Janaagraha

Jos Mooij, Overseas Development Institute, UK

Andhra Pradesh was among the pioneers of economic reform programmes in the 1990s. This paper interprets components of the reform process and the idea that politics should be kept out of policy.

CSO Partners Governance, Research Andhra Pradesh economic reform innovative legislation leadership smart governance policy process

Pari Baumann and John Farrington

Drawing on a two-year study of decentralisation processes at state, district and village levels in Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, this paper considers the influence of political economy factors on decentralised natural resource management in India. The paper assesses the constraints and potential for decentralisation that are posed by the current political economy.

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CSO Partners

First update of flood rehabilitation program undertaken to support the victims of flood in the year 2008

CSO Partners Disasters, Reports flood rehabilitation report

CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation

The Civil Society Index(CSI), an assessment of the state of civil society carried out in Orissa state in India, provides detailed account on methodology and findings on four dimensions of the study - a) Structure of civil society, b)Civil society^s external environment, c) Values upheld by civil society and d) Impact of civil society^s activities. Information on these dimensions is obtained by further dividing them into 25 sub-dimensions and 74 indicators. It is a valuable resource on methods of assessing a civil society

CSO Partners Governance, Research Civil Society Index

Business Respect provides commentary, news and resources on how business can successfully meet expectations that are of benefit to both business and of society. It aims to support organisations and individuals worldwide who are promoting corporate social responsibility from a pro-business perspective.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Links to useful websites Business respect corporate social responsibility pro-business perspective

JF Sherman, C Pitts

This paper presents an accountability guide showing how a company can align its behaviour with human rights goals imposed on it externally or arising from its internal commitments.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Research Corporate accountability human rights ethical issues of businesses multi-stakeholder initiatives

JL Short, MW Toffel

This paper analyses the complex behaviour of corporate self-disclosure. It investigates what factors lead organisations to self-disclose violations that went undiscovered by regulators. It also evaluates whether self-policing promotes the regulatory objective of improving compliance records.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Research Corporate self-disclosure compliance records deterrence-based regulatory strategy

Founded in 2000, by Indian social entrepreneur, Malini Mehra, Centre for Social Markets (CSM) is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to making markets work, while simultaneously promoting sustainable development, human rights and social justice. This website provides useful information on publications, programmes and up-to-date news on environmental CSR.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Links to useful websites Social markets Malini Mehra people planet and profit

Ethical Corporation is a UK-based company that provides an international perspective on responsible and ethical business in big companies. The website provides access to Ethical Corporation^s research studies on ethical business, news articles on corporate social responsibility and information on conferences that the company organises all around the world

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The CSR Education and Research project is intended to enhance, expand and promote CSR education and research between Indian and UK business schools. The website provides links to course outlines, research studies and presentations for faculty to download and use in their courses.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Links to useful websites Teach CSR academics educators responsible business

Greg Hills, Leigh Fiske, Adeeb Mahmud

This paper is a call for corporates businesses to embrace anti-corruption as a strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) mission

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Research Anti corruption corporate social responsibilty international business standards

Mahabir Narwal and Tejinder Sharma, Kurukshetra University, India

The paper studies the perception of Indian society on corporate social responsibility (CSR). It is useful for corporations to understand views on CSR in India, and redesign and reposition their social responsibility activities.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Research CSR activities societal perception social responsibility

Eklayva, pedagogy, self-learning, children^s literature

Eklavya is a non-profit, non-government organisation that develops and field tests innovative educational programmes and trains resource people to implement these programmes

CSO Partners Education, Links to useful websites Eklayva pedagogy self-learning children^s literature

Pratham is the largest non-governmental organizations (NGO) working to provide quality education to the underprivileged children of India. The website provides useful information about the organisation^s areas of work and their publications.

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Sonalde Desai, Cecily Darden Adams, Amaresh Dubey

This paper utilizes a newly collected nationally representative survey data from over 41,550 households to examine social inequality in children^s educational outcomes

CSO Partners Education, Research Social strata primary education scheduled castes educational inequalities

The Bill proposes free and compulsory education for children in the age group of six to 14. The Bill has been passed in both houses of Parliament. Once approved by the President, it will ensure that education is a fundamental right in India.

CSO Partners Education, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Free and compulsory education fundamental right

The GPRG is an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research group of economists, political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists undertaking a multi-disciplinary programme of work investigating issues of poverty, inequality and the quality of life.

CSO Partners Poverty, Links to useful websites Economic and social research poverty inequality

NCAER is an independent, non-profit research institution that is committed to assist government, civil society and the private sector to make informed policy choices.

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Aasha Kapur Mehta, Indian Institute of Public Administration and Amita Shah, Gujarat Institute of D

This paper tries to summarise the current state of knowledge about chronic poverty in India and identify the agenda for further research

CSO Partners Poverty, Research Chronic poverty remote rural areas vulnerability

A non-government website with a wealth of information on education schemes, education statistics and links

CSO Partners Education, Links to useful websites Education for All education information education links education data

NCERT is an apex resource organisation set up by the Government of India, with headquarters at New Delhi, to assist and advise the central and state governments on academic matters related to school education

CSO Partners Education, Links to useful websites National Council for Education Research and Training NCERT education research education training

DISE was initiated in 1994 to achieve the objective of Universal Primary Education (UPE) in educationally backward districts of India. It is a large system for collection, computerization, analysis and use of school level data.

CSO Partners Education, Links to useful websites District Information System for Education DISE Universal Primary Education school data education statistics

UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realised. UNICEF has its presence in 190 countries through country programmes and national committees.

CSO Partners Education, Links to useful websites UNICEF

Sonia Bhalotra and Bernarda Zamora, United Nations University

This paper uses two large repeated cross-sections, one for the early 1990s, and one for the late 1990s, to describe growth in school enrolment and completion rates for boys and girls in India, and to explore the extent to which enrolment and completion rates have grown over time. The analysis performs illustrative simulations relevant to the question of whether India will be able to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of realising universal primary education by the year 2015.

CSO Partners Education, Research Primary Education in India MDG Millennium Development Goal universal primary education

Yash Aggarwal, NIEPA

This paper evaluates the quality of primary education in India.

CSO Partners Education, Research quality of primary education

Department of Secondary and Higher Education, Government of India

The main objective of the Tenth Plan is to raise the enrolment of the population in the age group (18-23) in Higher Education from the present 6% to 10% by the end of the Tenth Plan period. The focus and strategies would be on increasing access; quality; adoption of state specific strategies; liberalisation of the higher education system; relevance including curriculum, vocationalisation, networking and information technology; distance education; convergence of formal, non-formal, distance and IT education institutions; increased private participation in establishing and running of colleges and deemed to be universities; research in Fortier areas of knowledge and meeting challenges in the area of Internationalisation of Indian Education.

CSO Partners Education, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Approach Paper on Education secondary education higher education

Ministry of Human Development, Government of India

The scheme was launched in 1988 in pursuance of the goals of the New Education Policy (1986) as a concrete programme for the education and empowerment of women in rural areas, particularly of women from socially and economically marginalised groups.

CSO Partners Education, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Mahila Samakhya empowerment of women marginalised women

Ministry of Human Development, Government of India

With a view to enhancing enrolment, retention and attendance and simultaneously improving nutritional levels among children, the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education, popularly known as the Midday Meal Scheme, was launched as a centrally sponsored scheme in 1995.

CSO Partners Education, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Midday Meal Scheme Nutritional Support to Primary Education

Government of India

With a view to enhancing enrolment, retention and attendance and simultaneously improving nutritional levels among children, the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education, popularly known as the Midday Meal Scheme, was launched as a centrally sponsored scheme in 1995.

CSO Partners Education, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Midday Meal Scheme Nutritional Support to Primary Education

Ministry of Human Development, Government of India

The Department of School Education and Literacy of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, is in the process of launching Rastriya Madhyamic Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) with an aim to achieve universal access to quality secondary education.

CSO Partners Education, Legislations/Policies/Government documents universal access to secondary education secondary education Rastriya Madhyamic Shiksha Abhiyan

Ministry of Human Development, Government of India

SSA is Government of India�s flagship programme for achievement of Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE) as mandated by the 86th amendment to the Constitution of India, making free and compulsory education a fundamental right for children in the age group 6-14 years

CSO Partners Education, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan SSA Universalisation of Elementary Education compulsory education right to education

The VHAI website acts as a resource centre on issues related to health and development in India. VHAI is a non-profit, registered federation of 27 state Voluntary Health Associations, linking together more than 4500 health and development institutions across the country.

CSO Partners Health, Links to useful websites Voluntary Health Association of India VHAI health organisations in India Health resources

Government of India

The proposed National Health Bill 2009 is a �framework law� laying down an overarching legal framework on health at the national level. This is the first step towards recognising the �right to health�. This framework would comprise the following: people�s right relating to health and health care; accompanying obligations of governments as well as private actors; core principles, norms and standards on health rights and obligations; institutional structure for monitoring and implementation; and justice mechanisms for health rights.

CSO Partners Health, Legislations/Policies/Government documents National Health Bill right to health healthcare health rights

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India

The National Rural Health Mission (2005-12) seeks to provide effective health care through a range of interventions at the individual, community and the health system levels. NRHM especially focuses on 18 states, which have low health indicators and weak infrastructure.

CSO Partners Health, Legislations/Policies/Government documents National Rural Health Mission NRHM

A comprehensive site by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare dedicated to the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).

CSO Partners Health, Links to useful websites National Rural Health Mission NRHM

International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

The third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3), coordinated by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) under the aegis of the Government of India, provides information on fertility, mortality, family planning, HIV-related knowledge, and important aspects of nutrition, health, and health care.

CSO Partners Health, Research National Family Health Survey NFHS data on fertility mortality data family planning data data on HIV-related knowledge nutrition data health data health care data perinatal mortality male involvement in maternal health care adolescent reproductive health higher-risk sexual behaviour family life education safe injections tuberculosis

Sphere India is a national coalition of agencies promoting quality and accountability in humanitarian action after disasters. Launched in 2002, Sphere India aims to ensure improved coordination among various stakeholders, while promoting the spirit and commitment embodied in its humanitarian charter. The site includes useful downloads like rapid and detailed disaster assessment formats.

CSO Partners Disasters, Links to useful websites SPHERE INDIA

Reuters AlertNet aims to keep relief professionals and the wider public up-to-date on humanitarian crises around the globe.

CSO Partners Disasters, Links to useful websites Reuters AlertNet disaster news disasters across world

The National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) is a premier national organisation working for human resource development at national level in the area of disaster mitigation and management. The website offers information on training and capacity building of NIDM and access to research studies conducted by the institute. It also gives an update on the country�s disaster management efforts

CSO Partners Disasters, Links to useful websites National Institute of Disaster Management

This Government of India website provides useful information regarding the government�s national disaster management programme; a toll-free helpline number; documents on safe construction practice; guidelines for school safety; an earthquake survival guidebook and status reports on India�s disaster management plan. The website also announces workshops, seminars, and training programmes conducted by the GOI on disaster management

CSO Partners Disasters, Links to useful websites national disaster management programme disaster news

National Disaster Management Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India& Confederation

This report explores the role of the corporate sector in disaster risk management in India.

CSO Partners Disasters, Legislations/Policies/Government documents corporate sector in disaster management in India

National Disaster Management Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India

Five-Year Plan documents have, historically, not included consideration of issues relating to the management and mitigation of natural disasters. The traditional perception has been limited to the idea of �calamity relief�, which is seen essentially as a non-plan item of expenditure. However, the impact of major disasters cannot be mitigated by the provision of immediate relief alone, which is the primary focus of calamity relief efforts. Disasters can have devastating effects on the economy; they cause huge human and economic losses, and can significantly set back development efforts of a region or a state. This report thus emphasises the need to look at disasters from a development perspective as well

CSO Partners Disasters, Legislations/Policies/Government documents disasters and development

This section of the Karmayog website presents details of the CSR activities of the 1000 largest Indian companies and other companies in India, sector-wise analysis of CSR, recommendations, guidelines, reporting formats for companies to adopt CSR, and opportunities available for NGOs under the CSR programmes of various companies.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Links to useful websites Karmayog CSR ratings in India CSR database CSR in India

The website provides information on the Code of Fair Business Practices, success stories and information about consumer court judgements

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Links to useful websites Council for Fair Business Practices

Atul Sood, Bimal Arora, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development

This paper considers corporate environmental and social behaviour in India, both in the past and the present, in an attempt to better understand the actual impact of CSR.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Research Corporate Responsibility in India impact of CSR in India

Confederation of Indian Industry

Set of principles for good corporate citizenry developed by CII.

CSO Partners Corporate Social Responsibility, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Social code for business corporate citizenship good business

Sphere

The Sphere Handbook provides minimum standards, indicators and guidelines for humanitarian agents involved in assisting people affected by disasters. This (2004) revised edition of the handbook takes into account recent developments in humanitarian practice in water/sanitation, food, shelter and health, with feedback from practitioners in the field, research institutes and cross-cutting experts in protection, gender, children, older people, disabled people, HIV/AIDS and the environment.

CSO Partners Disasters, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Sphere handbook Sphere guidelines minimum standards for disaster relief and management disaster handbook

National Disaster Management Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India

This report highlights the changes that have taken place in India�s approach to disaster management. The changed approach is being put into effect through: (a) institutional changes (b) enunciation of policy (c) legal and techno-legal framework (d) mainstreaming mitigation into development process (e) funding mechanism (f) specific schemes addressing mitigation (g) preparedness measures (h) capacity building (i) human resource development and community participation. This report discusses the expected inputs, the progress seen so far and agencies to be involved at the national, state and district levels in areas of intervention.

CSO Partners Disasters, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Disaster Management in India

Government of India

An Act to provide for the effective management of disasters and for related matters

CSO Partners Disasters, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Disaster Management Act

The Madhya Pradesh government�s website on the District Poverty Initiatives Project

CSO Partners Livelihood, Links to useful websites MPDPIP DPIP

The website of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) provides information on schemes under three headings: KVIC, khadi schemes and schemes under science and technology. The website also displays products manufactured by KVIC and information on training centres and online courses available for students.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Links to useful websites KVIC Khadi and Village Industries Commission khadi schemes training schemes technology for rural development

The official website of the apex development bank in the country provides information on the activities and objectives of the organisation, gives an overview of NABARD departments, and provides access to various publications and reports from across the country.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Links to useful websites National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)

CAPART�s website provides guidelines for submitting project proposals and acts as an information centre on voluntary organisations, rural technologies and rural development. The website also has a special section on CAPART�s Young Professional Scheme launched to encourage professionalism in the voluntary sector

CSO Partners Livelihood, Links to useful websites CAPART rural technologies voluntary sector

A national advocacy platform to engage various stakeholders and develop a comprehensive vision for the entire micro finance sector, the website seeks to promote the distinct voices of those associated with the field: policy makers, donors, academics, and practitioners.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Links to useful websites Microfinance Microfinance in India

Government of India

A credit-linked subsidy programme introduced by merging the two schemes, the Prime Minister�s Rojgar Yojana (PMRY) and the Rural Employment Generation Programme (REGP), that were in operation till March 31, 2008, PMEGP is meant to generate employment opportunities by establishing micro enterprises in rural as well as urban areas.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Prime Minister�s Employment Guarantee Programme PMEGP credit-linked scheme PMRY REGP

Government of India

Launched in 1999, after restructuring a set of other schemes such as Integrated Rural Development Programme, Training of Rural Youth for Self Employment, Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas, and Supply of Improved Toolkits to Rural Artisans, the SGSY scheme attempts to cover all aspects of self-employment such as organisation of the poor into self help groups, training, credit, technology, infrastructure and marketing. The scheme is funded by financial institutions, panchayat raj institutions, District Rural Development Agencies (DRDAs), and technical institutions in the district.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Legislations/Policies/Government documents SGSY Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana self-employment scheme

Dr Amit Kundu, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

This paper investigates whether the participants of the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) programme are enjoying economic (improvement in income and other livelihoods) and social benefits (ie, women�s empowerment, reduced vulnerability, less dependence on informal sources of credit) after joining in the SGSY micro finance programme, in Bankura district, West Bengal. The overall findings of the study indicate that while the scheme has managed to reduce the extent of people�s poverty, it has failed to reduce their vulnerability.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research SGSY impact of SGSY micro finance livelihoods credit women�s empowerment

B N Hiremath Institute of Rural Management, Anand

A paper presented at the national conference on �What it takes to eradicate poverty� organised by the PACS Programme, in New Delhi in December 2007, argues that understanding the livelihood systems of the poor is crucial to effective poverty reduction. The paper examines the impact of economic growth on the poor in both the agricultural and rural non-farm sectors. It discusses the impact of corporate retail on farmers, small retail outlets and local haats or markets.

CSO Partners Livelihood, Research Rural livelihoods rural non-farm sector food security technology for farmers

Government of India

The National e-Governance Plan (2003-2007) seeks to lay the foundation and provide the impetus for long-term growth of e-governance within the country. The plan seeks to create the right governance and institutional mechanisms, set up the core infrastructure and policies and implement a number of projects at the central and state levels.

CSO Partners Governance, Legislations/Policies/Government documents e-governance e-governance in India

Planning Commission, Government of India

Sectoral background papers of a Planning Commission committee report on �India: Vision 2020�

CSO Partners Governance, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Governance in India

Society for Promotion of e-Governance�s main objective is to promote the use of information and communication technologies as a tool for providing good and transparent governance.

CSO Partners Governance, Links to useful websites e-governance governance in India Society for Promotion of e-Governance

Vikas Kanungo, Chairman & Secretary General, The Society for Promotion of e-Governance

The paper provides an insight into what e-governance is and what it is not, evolution of e-governance technologies in India and across the globe, present state of e-governance initiatives in India, and strategies and action plans for translating e-governance initiatives into successful citizen services with long term goals.

CSO Partners Governance, Research e-governance governance in India citizen services

Julius Court, World Governance Survey Project

As part of the World Governance Survey project, a comprehensive assessment of governance at the national level in India was conducted in 2001. Over 170 experts from four states � Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi and Kerala � completed a questionnaire providing their ratings and comments to 30 indicators of governance. The findings suggest that even in a country of the diversity and complexity of India, it is feasible and valuable to carry out such governance assessments. However, there was an overarching concern that policy-making is rather divorced from the people � especially the poorest members of society.

CSO Partners Governance, Research Governance in India policies for poor corruption

Government of India

The Department of Women and Child Development was set up in 1985 as a part of the Ministry of Human Resource Development to give the much needed impetus to the holistic development of women and children

CSO Partners Women, Links to useful websites Department for Women

Yugantar Education Society, Nagpur

A study in the organised and unorganised sectors of employment in the state of Maharashtra, to uncover the extent of sexual harassment of women in the workplace, examine the physical and psychological effects on women, and to examine whether the existing laws are effective in protecting women

CSO Partners Women, Research sexual harassment women at workplace

Centre for Women�s Studies & Development, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences,

An analysis of the extent of domestic violence against women in Kerala, and evaluation of the existing institutional and non-institutional apparatus for addressing this problem.

CSO Partners Women, Research Domestic violence violence against women

Centre for Women�s Studies & Development, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences,

An analysis of the extent of domestic violence against women in Kerala, and evaluation of the existing institutional and non-institutional apparatus for addressing this problem

CSO Partners Women, Research Domestic violence violence against women

SPHERE INDIA

Situation reprot on swine flu compiled by Sphere India (a national coalition of Humanitarian Agencies in India) as of 9th August, 2009

CSO Partners Health, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Swine flu H1N1

Government of India

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CSO Partners Women, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Trafficking sex workers sex trade immoral traffic

Government of India

An Act to prohibit the giving or taking of �dowry�.

CSO Partners Women, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Dowry act dowry prohibition

Planning Commission, Government of India

The Planning Commission in April 2006 constituted a working group on �Empowerment of Women� for the 11th Five Year Plan to carry out a review, analysis and evaluation of the existing provisions/ programmes for women and to make recommendations. Four sub-groups were formed, namely, Engendering Policies and Strategies; Violence against Women; Schemes of Empowerment, Advocacy, Awareness Generation and Support Services for Women and Women�s Component Plan; and Gender Budgeting. Based on the analysis and recommendations made by the sub-groups, the following report was finalised.

CSO Partners Women, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Women empowerment programmes for women planning commission working group

Government of India

The first significant attempt to recognise domestic abuse as a punishable offence, the Domestic Violence Act 2005 extends its provisions to those in live-in relationships and provides for emergency relief for victims, in addition to legal recourse.

CSO Partners Women, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Domestic violence protection of women

Government of India

The Protection of Women against Sexual Harassment at the Workplace Bill 2007 is India�s first ever attempt to institute laws against sexual harassment in the workplace

CSO Partners Women, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Sexual harassment in workplace protection of women

Government of India

The National Policy for the Empowerment of Women 2001 was framed to bring about the advancement, development and empowerment of women.

CSO Partners Women, Legislations/Policies/Government documents National Policy for the Empowerment of Women women�s empowerment

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The Right to Food Campaign is an informal network of organisations and individuals committed to the realisation of the right to food in India. This website has information on the campaign, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the Mid-Day Meals Scheme, the Right to Food case and the Supreme Court�s orders on it, related articles and campaign material in English and Hindi.

CSO Partners Poverty, Links to useful websites Right to Food Campaign India

NA

Government of India�s official website for the Ministry of Rural Development. Provides information on various schemes initiated by the ministry, 2002 BPL Census report, annual reports and schemes for marketing of rural products.

CSO Partners Poverty, Links to useful websites Ministry of Rural Development

NA

Provides information on national and state plans, latest news about development issues, evaluation reports of various programmes, annual reports and statistical data on Indian states.

CSO Partners Poverty, Links to useful websites Planning Commission

NA

This section of the Union Ministry of Rural Development�s website provides comprehensive information for all stakeholders in the world�s largest employment and poverty alleviation scheme.

CSO Partners Poverty, Links to useful websites NREGA NREGS

Anish Vanaik, Siddhartha, (Economic and Political Weekly)

The draft report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on the working of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was used by many sections of the media to strongly criticise this programme. Much of the coverage sensationalised the findings of the report, argue the authors and point out how CAG fell short in its investigations.

CSO Partners Poverty, Research NREGA evaluation CAG report NREGS progress

Planning Commission, Government of India

An evaluation study of the Madhya Pradesh District Poverty Initiatives Project (MPDPIP) launched in March 2001 in 2932 villages, spread over 53 blocks of 14 districts of the state, and completed in June 2006.

CSO Partners Poverty, Research MPDPIP Madhya Pradesh District Poverty Initiatives Project DPIP

N C Saxena, UNDP

An evaluation of policies, regulations and acts to eradicate poverty, in particular land reform and forest reform policies.

CSO Partners Poverty, Research Pro-poor policy reform land reform forest policy policies for poor

Government of India

An Act to provide for the enhancement of livelihood security of households in rural areas of the country by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work

CSO Partners Poverty, Legislations/Policies/Government documents NREGA NREGS employment guarantee act

Planning Commission, Government of India

The major objectives of the 11th Five Year Plan are income generation, poverty alleviation, education, health, infrastructure and environment.

CSO Partners Poverty, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Agriculture Development Policy

Government of India

The Right to Information Act 2005 (Act No. 22/2005)[1] is a law enacted by the Parliament of India giving citizens of India access to records of the Central Government and State Governments. The Act applies to all States and Union Territories of India, except the State of Jammu and Kashmir - which is covered under a State-level law.

CSO Partners Governance, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Corruption RTI Act

Government of Bihar (Department of Planning and Development)

Government of Bihar (Department of Planning and Development) has issued the Kosi Rehabilitation Policy for recovery and rehabilitation activities in flood-affected districts. It is a comprehensive, multisectoral project, to reconstruct houses, provide community facilities, complete restoration of infrastructure, and provide livelihood support

CSO Partners Disasters, Legislations/Policies/Government documents Rehabilitation Policy

A toolkit for mainstreaming gender sensitive interventions in Disaster Management in all phases including preparedness, mitigation, response, rehabilitation and recovery.

CSO Partners Disasters, Research Gender sensitivity