Institutions and Society

Mid-Term Review of WSSCC’s Medium Term Strategic Plan, 2012-16

Case study on Mid-Term Review of WSSCC’s Medium-Term Strategic Plan to assess its progress against intended outcomes and suggest improvements. … Read More

Feasibility Study for Sustained Management of Public Sanitation Facilities

Study to support the implementation of City Sanitation Plans across and the development of State Sanitation Strategies to improve public sanitation across the country. … Read More

Investigating the Impact of a Mobile-Based Agricultural Extension Service

LEAD’s policy brief describes lessons from a large-scale field experiment that has delivered mobile-phone-based agricultural information to cotton farmers in western India. … Read More

Doubling Farmers’ Incomes: Issues and Strategies for Tamil Nadu

Study to assess current income levels of farmers and existing strategies for income increment in rural Tamil Nadu in order to present actionable items and policy recommendations in accordance with Tamil Nadu government’s objective of doubling farmer’s incomes. … Read More

Measurement of Latrine Use in Rural India

This study presents evidence from a measurement study on reported latrine use rates using alternative framing of questions to better identify indicators that accurately measure latrine use and support large-scale sanitation programmes. … Read More

Review of BMGF/DFID Partnership Cities Project

This study reviews the outcomes of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMFG)/UK Department of International Development (DfID) initiated partnership to promote private sector engagement in non-networked sanitation and improve capabilities of sanitation service authorities to govern these partnerships. … Read More

Developing Financing Strategies for Implementing the State Action Plans on Climate Change

Koyel Mandal, Sunanda Rathi, Vivek Venkataramani

This report is a high level strategy document based on interim findings from a study on ‘Developing Financing Strategies for Implementing the State Action Plans on Climate Change.’ It primarily focuses on strategies for states to access and leverage Central … Read More

Study of Ecological, Socio-Economic and Livelihood Dimensions of Grazing Exclusion in Protected Forests of West Sikkim

Shweta Bhagat, Mansi Diwan, Vivek Venkataramani

The goal of this study was to examine the impact of grazing exclusion in West Sikkim on forest ecosystems and livelihoods of local communities. This report presents findings from the assessment.

An Evaluation of India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change

Sujatha Byravan, Sudhir Chella Rajan

This project develops a broad-stroke analysis of the design of India’s climate missions of the National Action Plan on Climate Change. The study is based on interviews of experts in particular domains who also understand climate change. The broad crosscutting … Read More

Climate Finance: Understanding India’s Requirements and Opportunities

KOYEL K MANDAL and SIVAPRADHA C R

Progress towards climate change goals often falter over a familiar stumbling block: financing. India’s climate finance requirements are enormous and we are looking for a combination of domestic public financing, private financing and international climate finance to meet our needs. … Read More