Saving Brains Study
Research Team: Sapna Nair, Rathish Sekar, Harish Kumar
Project Geography: Districts of Madurai & Dindigul, Tamil Nadu
Status: Ongoing
The proposed project seeks to generate an innovative model to promote overall development of a child including both cognitive and nutritional development by two methods. The first method is using information technology to disseminate information to parents through the network of Anganwadi workers. This will happen through door to door outreach as well as messaging […]
Research Study on Start-Up Ecosystem in Tamil Nadu
Research Team: John Victor Arunkumar, Ankur Gautam, Mridulya Narasimhan
Project Geography: Tamil Nadu, India
Status: Award Received
This study aims to understand the opportunities and challenges faced by startups in Tamil Nadu in their journey through the stages of ideation, validation, early traction and scaling. This documentation and consequent recommendations will aid policy making with a readily available rich resource for policymakers who want to promote Tamil Nadu-based startups and would like […]
Incentivising self-help groups to influence improved sanitation behaviors: Evidence from rural Tamil Nadu
Research Team: Sujatha Srinivasan, Ajay Tannirkulam, Lipika Kapoor
Project Geography: Tamil Nadu
Status:
Recent evidence suggesting that sanitation practices involving latrine use in rural India are likely more behavior-led and demand-oriented than previously understood. GoI’s SBM-Grameen presents a renewed opportunity to tackle the OD challenge in rural India. This will require a shift in historical policy and programmatic focus from latrine construction to latrine use as a key […]
Review of BMGF/DFID Partnership cities project
Research Team: Sujatha Srinivasan, Revati Dhoble, Prof. Ligy Philip (IIT, Madras)
Project Geography: India, Bangladesh
Status:
In 2013, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the UK Department of International Development (DfID) initiated a partnership based on a shared vision of universal use of sustainable sanitation services. Six cities in South Asia with demonstrated evidence of long term commitment to improving sanitation service outcomes were selected to benefit from this […]
Understanding the Impact of Demonetization on Bank Account Holders from Low Income Households
Principal Investigators: Preethi Rao
Project Geography: Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh
Status: Completed
This study, conducted by IFMR LEAD, attempts to contribute to the ongoing debate of the short and long-term effects of demonetization on low income households who while formally banked, are among the most prone to adverse effects of demonetization policy, owing to their socio-economic, demographic and occupational profiles. The objective of this study is to […]
