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Sustainable Agroforestry: A Key to Climate-Smart Agriculture
The world runs on coffee. But the high demand for coffee bean has devastating environmental, social and economic impacts on farming communities. One solution- agroforestry, enhances soil health, carbon uptake, and water conservation, making it an effective system for both agricultural productivity and ecological preservation.
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TriDEP: U.S., India, and Tanzania Partner to Promote Renewable Energy Development in Tanzania
On July 17, The United States, India, and Tanzania launched a Triangular Development Partnership (TriDEP) to advance clean and renewable energy development in Tanzania. As the implementing partner, The Asia […]
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India
In India, we partner with government, civil society, and the private sector on initiatives that promote national economic growth, India’s engagement in international development assistance, disaster risk reduction, climate-smart agriculture, and renewable energy.
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Towards an Equitable and Integrated South Asia: Building Enabling Environments for Women in Trade – India Country Report
India has registered a two-fold year-on-year growth in exports in recent years and has set a target of USD 1 trillion in exports by 2025. However, India’s trade with other […]
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Asia Foundation Marks 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence in India
On December 6, 2023, The Asia Foundation office in India marked the global campaign, 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, with a screening of the critically acclaimed documentary “Payal […]
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Delegation from the Republic of Fiji Visits India for the India-U.S. Triangular Development Partnership (TriDeP)
In October, a delegation comprising 22 healthcare professionals from the Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical Services and civil society representatives participated in the Putting India’s Telemedicine Healthcare Model to […]
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India
The Asia Foundation opened a resident office in New Delhi in 2009, where it has focused on supporting India’s engagement in regional and global affairs, improving urban governance, and promoting […]
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Policy Report – Opportunities for India’s Participation in Global Value Chains
Asia and the Pacific have attracted significant attention from policymakers, the private sector, and development sector partners as a region well placed for India to expand its trade and economic […]
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Complementarity of Indian Development Cooperation with Similar Initiatives in the Indo-Pacific – Fiji
The Asia Foundation, through its India–U.S. Triangular Development Partnership (TriDeP), a program funded by USAID, is working toward strengthening India’s and the U.S.’s development cooperation footprint in the Indo-Pacific region […]
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Complementarity of Indian Development Cooperation with Similar Initiatives in the Indo-Pacific – Lao PDR
The Asia Foundation, through its India–U.S. Triangular Development Partnership (TriDeP), a program funded by USAID, is working toward strengthening India’s and the U.S.’s development cooperation footprint in the Indo-Pacific region […]
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Complementarity of Indian Development Cooperation with Similar Initiatives in the Indo-Pacific – Vietnam
The Asia Foundation, through its India–U.S. Triangular Development Partnership (TriDeP), a program funded by USAID, is working toward strengthening India’s and the U.S.’s development cooperation footprint in the Indo-Pacific region […]
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Complementarity of Indian Development Cooperation with Similar Initiatives in the Indo-Pacific – Papua New Guinea
The Asia Foundation, through its India–U.S. Triangular Development Partnership (TriDeP), a program funded by USAID, is working toward strengthening India’s and the U.S.’s development cooperation footprint in the Indo-Pacific region […]
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Complementarity of Indian Development Cooperation with Similar Initiatives in the Indo-Pacific – Philippines
The Asia Foundation, through its India–U.S. Triangular Development Partnership (TriDeP), a program funded by USAID, is working toward strengthening India’s and the U.S.’s development cooperation footprint in the Indo-Pacific region […]
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Complementarity of Indian Development Cooperation with Similar Initiatives in the Indo-Pacific – Cambodia
The Asia Foundation, through its India–U.S. Triangular Development Partnership (TriDeP), a program funded by USAID, is working toward strengthening India’s and the U.S.’s development cooperation footprint in the Indo-Pacific region […]
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Women Are Missing from India’s Border Trade
The cross-border trade ecosystem in India does not include enough women. Women who are a part of India’s export and import value chains are typically confined to the lower levels […]
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How “Digital Public Goods” Are Transforming India’s Healthcare System
As India emerged from the trials of the pandemic lockdown, a small mosaic of black and white lines and squares began to appear: on paper cards atop vegetable carts in […]
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Policy Brief – Global Supply Chains and Trade Facilitation: Identifying the Contours of an Indian Approach
The congruence between trade facilitation and greater resilience of supply chains has never been as clear. The Covid-19 pandemic’s disruptive impact on supply chains drove home the necessity of safeguarding […]
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Policy Brief – Intellectual Property Rights in Global Value Chains: The State of Play in India
As emerging economies look to enhance their participation in GVCs and improve the quality of goods and services provided by their local industries, the role of intellectual property (IP) has […]
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Policy Brief – Women’s Inclusion in India’s Trade Ecosystem: From Talk to Action
Trade policy cannot be gender-neutral in a world where women enter a trade with a pre-existing disadvantage, built on social, institutional, and structural constructs. It needs to counter the disadvantage […]
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Purpose-Built Financing for Disaster-Risk Management
Asian and Pacific nations need a big boost in spending to manage the growing risk of natural disasters, but several low- and middle-income countries will need help to meet these targets.
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Towards a Climate-Smart Tomorrow: Solutions for Transforming Asia’s Agriculture Sector
India has climate-smart solutions for Asian agriculture.
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India’s Experience with Climate Smart Agriculture: Opportunities for Triangular Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
The agriculture sector in India has witnessed a series of reforms and transformative measures over the past few years to cope with the adverse effects of climate change. Farmers across […]
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The Best of InAsia, 2022
“Fast away the olde year passes.” It’s time to take an appreciative look back at the abundant harvest of stories and conversations from our colleagues in the field.
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India’s Disaster Risk Reduction Journey: Opportunities for Strengthening Partnerships in the Indo-Pacific
India’s unique conditions make it vulnerable to multiple natural and human-caused disasters. The country’s journey toward holistic and modern disaster risk reduction practices began more than 20 years ago when […]
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Renewable Energy: Establishing India-U.S. Triangular Development Cooperation Partnerships in the Indo-Pacific Region
India has been working for more than five decades to improve energy access, increase energy efficiency, and promote clean technology to address the electricity, heating, and cooling demands. The country […]
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Fighting a Pandemic of Misinformation
How a two-year program helped vulnerable communities in South Asia protect themselves from Covid-19 and the “fake-news pandemic.”
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Applying a Feminist Lens to India’s Foreign Policy A Compendium of Essays
The Asia Foundation, in partnership with Kubernein Initiative, examined the idea of a feminist foreign policy by applying a gender lens to six thematic areas of Indian foreign policy. The […]
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A Push Factor for Trafficking: Gender-Based Violence
One can lure victims into brothels and across international borders. The other is often hidden in the home. But their tangled relationship holds a key to detection, enforcement, and rehabilitation.
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Disaster Resilience Unlocks Economic Potential
Investing in disaster preparedness isn’t just an economic gamble that only pays off when disaster strikes.
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Optimizing Screening and Support Services for Gender-Based Violence and Trafficking in Persons Victims in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka
Gender-based violence (GBV) and trafficking in persons (TIP) continue to be significant concerns in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. In India and Nepal, the number of both GBV and TIP […]
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Virtual Event: Advancing India-Australia-Pacific Islands Development Cooperation
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM IST 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM FJT The Asia Foundation is organizing a consultation webinar on Advancing India-Australia-Pacific Islands Development Cooperation on March 31st. The […]
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Living with the River: Going with the Flow of the Kosi
Traditional flood-control measures have failed in the Kosi River Basin. It’s time to look beyond transboundary water politics and ill-conceived infrastructure development.
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Pankaj Prakash Mahalle
Pankaj is co-founder and CEO of GramHeet, a social enterprise that aims to increase smallholder farmers’ income by providing integrated post-harvest services through a digital platform. Before GramHeet, he served […]
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Optimizing Screening and Support Services of Gender-Based Violence and Trafficking in Person Victims in India
In India, cases of trafficking in persons (TIP) have risen since 2019 alongside a dip in conviction rates. This raises valid questions on the existent gaps in the screening and […]
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Peering into the Year Ahead in Asia
The year is still young, but our country representatives are looking ahead to the trends and developments that will affect the course of peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific in 2022.
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Advancing South-South Cooperation: India’s Development Partnerships with Pacific Island Countries
Amidst shifting geopolitical dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region, India and Pacific Island Countries (PICs) have widened their political interactions, economic engagement, and development partnerships in multiple areas. This paper explores […]
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India-U.S. Triangular Development Partnership
U.S. and India share a common vision for a free and open Indo-Pacific region. The India-U.S. Triangular Development Partnership (TriDeP) is aimed at enhancing India’s development cooperation footprint in the […]
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Give2Asia Supports Covid-19 Response in India
India’s second wave of Covid-19 is causing unprecedented devastation. The country, which was reporting less than 15,000 cases a day just last month, documented nearly 400,000 cases on April 29. […]
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Back-to-Back Spikes of Covid Wrack India, Nepal
In the three years before the pandemic, South Asia registered the world’s highest rate of economic growth. Now, as a ruinous second wave of Covid-19 sweeps through the region, all of that appears to be undone.
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Resilience in the Time of Covid
A five-nation initiative to blunt the impact of Covid-19 in South Asia combines international scope, local partnerships, and a question: how to prepare the most vulnerable for the next crisis.
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The Asia Foundation Releases Study on Covid-19 & Women in the Economy in South Asia
A new report series, Covid-19 & The New Normal for Women in the Economy in South Asia, provides strong empirical evidence that the economic impact of the pandemic is expected […]
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Our Predictions for 2021, Following a Year That Defied Prediction
From a pandemic that quickly swept the globe, to the storming of the U.S. capital, 2020 was a year that defied prediction. So, what can we say about 2021? After a year that derailed development trajectories across Asia, our experts look to the year ahead.
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The Best InAsia Podcasts and Posts of 2020
The year of the pandemic was a long, discontented winter that the glorious sun forgot. But it was a year we dug deep into the voices and ideas of our colleagues across Asia in our new InAsia Podcast.
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Advancing Gender Equality & Social Inclusion in India
The Asia Foundation opened a resident office in India in 2008. The Foundation collaborates with communities, government, civil society, and other development partners to implement evidence-based programs to advance gender […]
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Guidelines for an Index on Gender Friendly Cities
To address the issue of lack of safety in public spaces and fear that women and girls face in them—a tool to assess and measure the quality of built environment […]
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Gender Sensitive Policing in Public Spaces
This Manual is the outcome of findings of comprehensive need assessments, observation visits, and expert panel consultations conducted in the three cities of Bhopal, Gwalior, and Jodhpur where police officials, […]
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Women and Mobility: A Case Study of Bhopal, Gwalior & Jodhpur
Safetipin, in collaboration with The Asia Foundation, and supported by Korea International Cooperation Agency, conducted research on women’s safety in public transport and public places in three tier 2 cities […]
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Solid Waste Management in Kep Province
Solid Waste Management in Kep Province offers a comprehensive picture of waste operations in a secondary Cambodian municipality. To develop an accurate understanding of the current situation, and to establish […]
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India’s Emerging Gig Economy: The Future of Work for Women
This pilot study seeks to understand the role of India’s growing platform-based gig economy on women’s employment and working conditions. It presents an in-depth study of women’s work through the […]
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Opportunity in Crisis: Making Green Energy the New Normal
Some of the most indelible images of the pandemic have been the brilliant skies that replaced toxic smog as the world stayed home and fossil-fuel use plunged. With renewables now cheaper than coal, green energy's time has come.
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Virtual Event – Covid-19 and the Indian Platform Economy: Is There Room for Women?
The growing platform-based economy greatly benefited India’s youth who looking for work in urban areas. This sector has been particularly attractive for women, though they still face many uncertainties and […]
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Asia Foundation’s Political Economy of Data Workshop at Global Digital Development Forum
The international development community is adapting to the new challenges and opportunities presented by a growing digital ecosystem and digital data. As part of the Global Digital Development Forum virtual […]
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A Visit to The Gender Lab in Mumbai
Watch a new film on Asia Foundation partner The Gender Lab, an India based organization working to change gender attitudes. Gender Lab co-founder Akshat Singhal discusses empowering adolescents to question […]
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Getting Her Gig on: The Future of Work for Indian Women
On the eve of International Women’s Day, Indian women are still too often excluded from the formal economy. But they’re finding a place in the gig economy, thanks to a raft of tech start-ups that have given them new freedom, flexibility, and economic dignity.
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Her Right to the City: Must Women Tread in Fear?
India has invested for decades in women’s empowerment, but the persistent threat of harassment and violence in cities shows that the built environment must change to make women safe in public spaces.
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Jaideep Bansal
Jaideep Bansal is CEO at Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE), a social enterprise conducting Impact Expeditions to bring solar energy to remote Himalayan villages. Under his leadership, GHE has electrified 100 […]
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2020 in Asia: A 20/20 Look
Happy New Year, and welcome to the first edition of InAsia for 2020. To herald the new decade, our country representatives this week survey the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for a dynamic and rapidly changing Asia. Here, to kick off the new year, are perspectives from The Asia Foundation’s 18 country offices.
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Editor’s Picks—The Best of InAsia 2019
Season’s greetings from InAsia, where the blog is about to enjoy a short winter break before the new year bursts upon us. Here are a few of the most engaging essays from the pages of InAsia in 2019, as chosen by your humble editor. Enjoy!
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The Asia Foundation Hosts “Safety for She” Conference with SafetiPin, KOICA, and CSR
The Asia Foundation, with support from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and in partnership with SafetiPin and the Centre for Social Research (CSR), held a national conference, Safety for […]
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The Dark Horse of India’s Renewables Revolution: The “Water Battery”
Progress in energy storage will soon mean energy security for India, as the country races ahead with large renewable power commitments. Already fifth in the world in renewables, India now […]