Jayati Narain, Research Associate, OpenCities Institute
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Ruchi Varma, Program Manager-Urban Development, Community Systems Foundation Jayati Narain, Research Associate, OpenCities Institute From Urban Imperative by Edward Glaeser & Abha Joshi-Ghani, cities can best be understood as a ‘triad of forces’. While commonly seen as physical entities, such as streets, buildings, and subways, and viewed from the lens of the public sector, which defines the borders of the city and has the responsibility for providing clean water and public safety, Glaeser and Joshi-Ghani note that cities have a third, equally important, element. That is, “the magic of human interaction.” [1]
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Strengthening India’s Education Data Dissemination through Visualization Tools on U-DISE and NAS19/10/2018 Seth Davis, Communications Officer, Community Systems Foundation With 377,222,017 students in pre-primary, primary and secondary schools in 2018, nearly one-third of India’s total population is attending education institutions below the university level. [1]. The number of Indian school children is larger than the entire population United States - the third largest country in the world.
Seth Davis, Communications Officer, Community Systems Foundation While 1.4 million new HIV infections have been averted since 2010, the disease continues to persist. According to the Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director, in 2017 alone, 180,000 children became infected with the virus. [1] Children, along with society’s most vulnerable populations — “adolescent girls and young women, indigenous peoples, migrants, the poor and uneducated, and key populations at highest risk of HIV infection—are being left behind.” [2]
Technology is coming to monitor the academic progress of all primary and secondary school students, the Ministry of Education has announced.
“Government has just rolled out an educational management information system which will allow for the monitoring of key performance and behavioural indicators, and all IT coordinators in our schools have been trained to monitor it,” said Acting Minister of Education Senator Lucille Moe. She was speaking during a service at the Collymore Rock Church of the Nazarene to mark Education Month. Menna El Shiati, Advisor - Gender and FGM, Community Systems Foundation Seth Davis, Communications Officer, Community Systems Foundation Since 2008, the UN Global Joint Programme (JP) on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has supported “more than 3.2 million girls and women in 17 countries” [1] The JP, a partnership between The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and UNICEF has assisted with provision of appropriate and quality services, increased community-led engagement, legal and policy frameworks, government ownership and increased access to accurate and timely data. At the same time, the JP seeks to measure the progress, quality and success of FGM programming. This is done by focusing on planning, reporting, monitoring and evaluation. Seth Davis, Communications Officer, Community Systems Foundation Globally, LGBTQ+ individuals face discrimination, stigma and violence due to dangerous national legislation. This is especially the case in at least 72 countries where discriminatory laws criminalize private, consensual same-sex relationships. These policies expose “millions of individuals to the risk of arrest, prosecution and imprisonment – and even, in five countries and several regions, the death penalty” – for simply loving another person. [1]
Reblog: ehealth.eletsonline.com IN THE NEWS Since 2017, Community Systems Foundation's technology partner AVALON has partnered with Jhpiego, India on Project ASMAN. This innovative health-facility-based intervention provides accurate and timely visualizations with the goal of providing quality care to mothers during the first 48-60 hours after delivery. The overall aim of Project ASMAN is to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality. As an Android-based mobile application, this labor monitoring tool seeks to overcome labor complications by including partographs and gamification techniques that seek to facilitate referral management based on needs of mothers.
As discussed in the article, the ASMAN initiative "will not only improve the way data is collected but [will] also improve the ability of the system to interpret, analyze, translate and use the data...towards improving decision making by service providers and the beginning of [a] new dawn for informed data-driven decision making by the facility as well as district and state level officials." |
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