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Building toilets to make Swachh Bharat, but what about their users? | Hindustan Times
This story from the Hindustan Times quotes r.i.c.e. research about why so many people in India defecate in the open.
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Cleaner Sweep | Indian Express
In this editorial, Indian Express News Service cites r.i.c.e. research and explains: Swachh Bharat will also have to account for the cult...
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Needed: Quantitative Evidence of Swacch Bharat Abhiyan | Dean Spears | LiveMint
In this op-ed, Dean calls for monitoring latrine use under the Swacch Bharat Mission.
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One year on, PM Modi’s Swachh Bharat drive fails to leave a mark | Hindustan Times
In this article, Moushumi Das Gupta and Brajesh Kumar cite Sangita on the relationship between latrine use in rural India and untouchabil...
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Social hiearchy, maternal nutrition, and development | Diane Coffey | India in Transition
In this article, Diane discusses the causes and consequences of poor maternal nutrition in India, and calls for implementation of existin...
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Swacch Bharat Mission a misguided approach to ending open defecation | Nikhil Srivastav & Sangita Vyas | LiveMint
Sangita and Nikhil's op-ed in LiveMint talks about the need for better data on sanitation in India, and why the SBM is struggling to redu...
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Swacch Bharat Mission must address untouchability | Nikhil Srivastav & Sangita Vyas | LiveMint
In the second article in their series on sanitation policy in LiveMint, Nikhil and Sangita talk about behavior change efforts under the S...
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Swachh Bharat: In Rajasthan, a village shows why open defecation is ending only on paper | Scroll
In this article, Anumeha Yadav examines how the Swacch Bharat Mission has been going in Alwar, Rajasthan, and quotes Nikhil on why privat...
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Why health mothers matter | Diane Coffey | Hindu Businessline
In this article, reprinted from CASI's India in Transition blog, Diane discusses the causes and consequences of poor maternal nutrition i...
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first year of SBM over, only four left to eliminate open defecation
Today is Gandhi Jayanti, which marks the first anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission. r.i.c.e. marked the occasion a few days ago by h...
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Conference on Purity, Untouchability, and Open Defecation: Starting a Conversation for a Swacch Bharat
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Conference on Purity, Untouchability, and Open Defecation, 29th Sept, JNU
If you would like to attend the conference, you must register by here by 25th Sept. Last year, the Government of India launched the Swach...
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Read this important new qualitative paper from rural Orissa
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Is maternal health in India worse than we thought? | by Diane Coffey | Ideas for India
Since India does not have a national system to monitor health during pregnancy, the fraction of women of child-bearing age who are underw...
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Sangita's Tedx Talk
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Importance of changing sanitation behaviour under the SBM | Ishaan Bakshi | Business Standard
Ishan Bakshi writes about recent research that points to culture as a determinant of open defecation. Read the complete article here.
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Two new additions to the r.i.c.e. family
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The Economist published Malnutrition and Immunisation figures from the 2013-14 UNICEF survey
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Things Swachh Bharat Mission can learn from Yoga Day
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Sangita is delivering a TedX talk on Sanitation on Sunday
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