Dialing up change and hope
Posted on: June 19, 2014
By: Tanmay Guha Roy
Categories: Innovation, People |Tags: Bihar, Community Health Workers, mHealth, Mobile Academy, Mobile Kunji
We were delighted at the lunch table when a colleague from Bihar narrated this story. There was a Community Health Worker (CHW), who was reluctant to show up at a Mobile Academy certificate distribution ceremony, because it conflicted with a wedding celebration at her village. But, when she heard that the District Magistrate would be […]
Read moreStories of the health frontline, Bihar
Posted on: April 9, 2014
By: Wasim Ahmed
Categories: Innovation, People |Tags: Bihar, Community Health Workers, Complementary feeding, Family planning, IPC training, mHealth, Mobile Academy, Mobile Kunji
The World Health Worker Week (April 7 – 11) aims to support, appreciate and raise awareness about the important role of Community Health Workers (CHW). I want to celebrate this week by sharing my stories about some of the CHWs we have been working with in Bihar – their challenges, their triumphs, their highs and […]
Read moreLife and death discussions in Bihar
Posted on: January 27, 2014
By: Peter Horrocks
Category: Innovation |Tags: Khirki Mehendiwali, Mass media, Radio programme
I’ve met audiences of BBC programmes in the UK and many parts of the world. But never have I met a group for whom a BBC programme inspired so much discussion as the women of the village of Vyapur in Bihar state in northern India. I was in Vyapur to join a listeners’ group to […]
Read moreBihar has two i’s
Posted on: August 22, 2013
By: Radharani Mitra
Categories: Innovation, Strategy
Draw up a balance sheet of Bihar. At first glance the negatives far outweigh the positives: it is one of the most populous states in India and one of the least developed. Abject poverty, illiteracy, poor infrastructure, caste-based politics and practically no governance for over four decades have cancelled out its rich history, natural reserves, […]
Read moreStories of failure. And success.
Posted on: August 20, 2013
By: Siddhartha Swarup
Categories: Innovation, Research, Strategy |Tags: Ek Teen Do, Khirki Mehendiwali, Kilkari, mHealth, Mobile Academy, Mobile Kunji
How did the education system get it so wrong? Remember those multiple-choice tests where we had to pick one right answer? From the day we join school we are taught that there is always one right answer to a problem. Fortunately, life teaches us otherwise. Get married or not? One child or two? Job or […]
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