Energy

Lasting impact: sustainable off-grid solar delivery models to power health and education

Electricity access enhances access to quality essential health care services while making health systems more resilient.

Publication Date: 
24/04/2019
United Nations Foundation
Tags:
Solar Energy, Electricity, Off-Grid, Health Care, Education, India, Global
Energy

Solar power 'cow' helps children swap farming for classes

- Children from poor families in sub-Saharan Africa have been able to swap cleaning up cowpats for lessons thanks to a solar power project that rewards parents for sending them to school.

Publication Date: 
19/04/2019
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST)
Tags:
Energy, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Electricity, Africa, Education, Children, Tanzania, Kenya
People

Women and Men in India 2018

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) in its endeavour to facilitate the policy makers in evolving the best developmental policies has been bringing out the publication “Women and Men in India” on annual basis. The publication portrays the extend of gender inequality and gender discriminations through crucial statistical indicators of socio-economic and demographic relevance. Gender statistics have a crucial role in gender mainstreaming in developmental policies.

Publication Date: 
Friday, March 29, 2019
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
Tags:
Women, Population, Health, Education, Economy, India, Statistics
Sanitation

South Africa: Safe Toilets Bring Hope, Dignity to Learners

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will today hand over 42 toilets to the Ubuhle-Bemvelo Primary School, in Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal.

Publication Date: 
13/03/2019
All Africa
Tags:
Sanitation, Toilets, South Africa, Education, Africa
Health

Italy bans unvaccinated children from school

Italian children have been told not to turn up to school unless they can prove they have been properly vaccinated.

Publication Date: 
13/03/2019
BBC (UK)
Tags:
Health, Italy, Vaccination, Education, Child Health, Children, Health Care, Europe
Climate Change

Climate change reader for Universities

Climate change is dictating the fate of our planet. Record temperatures, melting ice sheets and glaciers, sea level rise, emergence of new diseases and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events like cyclones, floods and droughts have become the new normal. Climate Change Reader for Universities breaks down the science, impacts, politics and sustainable pathways from innumerable scientific studies and reports using infographics, case studies and lectures.

Publication Date: 
Mar 2019
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Tags:
Climate Change, Education
Science And Technology

Rwanda to launch satellite to provide broadband internet to schools in remote areas

Rwanda is partnering with a UK-based communications company to launch a satellite that will provide broadband internet to schools in remote areas, Rwandan Ministry of ICT and Innovation said Wednes

Publication Date: 
28/02/2019
Xinhua
Tags:
Science And Technology, Space Technology, Telecommunication, Rwanda, Education, Africa
Natural Disasters

Drought in West Pokot, Turkana Counitns pushes learners out of schools

Drought in West Pokot and Turkana counties has forced pupils to drop out of school as pastoralists move to Uganda.

Publication Date: 
28/02/2019
Standard Media (Kenya)
Tags:
Natural Disasters, Droughts, Kenya, Livestock, Water Supply, Africa, Education
Environment

Education remains top priority, gets 26% share of total budget

Education continued to be the top priority for the Delhi government with the sector receiving the highest share of ₹15,601 crore, which is 26% of the total budget allocation for 2019-20.

Publication Date: 
27/02/2019
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Budget, Education
Environment

Rs 60,000 crore Budget for Delhi presented in Assembly

The AAP government on Tuesday presented a Rs 60,000 crore Budget for 2019-20 laying emphasis on education, health and transport sectors and said it is “two times more” than the one presented in 201

Publication Date: 
27/02/2019
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Budget, Education, Health, Transport, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)

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