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All published content in this sector: primers, practice notes, and organisation spotlights.

All Child Welfare Content

11 published pieces

Scheme Primer Grade A Child Welfare

Jashoda Scheme — Odisha's Financial Support for Orphaned Children

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Scheme Primer Grade A Child Welfare

PM POSHAN + Mission Shakti + Odisha Millet Mission — The Triple Convergence That Feeds Children, Empowers Women, and Markets Tribal Grain

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Scheme Primer Grade A Child Welfare

PM POSHAN — The Mid-Day Meal That Keeps 11.80 Crore Children in School

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Scheme Primer Grade A Child Welfare

PMAY-Gramin — A Permanent Home for Every Rural Family Without One

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Scheme Primer Grade A Child Welfare

Mission Vatsalya — India's Child Protection Architecture, From Gram Sabha to Supreme Court

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Scheme Primer Grade A Child Welfare

Mission Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0 — India's Integrated Nutrition Framework

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Org Spotlight Grade B Child Welfare

Parinaam Foundation — The Poverty Exit That Takes a Generation to Complete

In the informal settlements at the edge of every Indian city — the colonies that don't appear on ward maps, the communities that receive no civic services, the families who live under tarpaulins and polyethylene — there is a category of poverty that is both urban and invisible. T...

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Practice Note Grade A Child Welfare

Conditional Cash Transfers in Tribal India — Evidence, Adaptation, and the Mamata Lesson

Conditional Cash Transfers are programmes that provide money to low-income households on the condition that they meet specific behavioural criteria — typically health-seeking behaviours like attending antenatal care, delivering in a health facility, vaccinating children, or sendi...

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Practice Note Grade B Child Welfare

Child Labour in Odisha — Why Rescue Alone Fails, and What Works Instead

Child labour persists not because parents do not value education, but because the economic calculus at the household level often makes children's labour more immediately valuable than their schooling.

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Practice Note Grade B Child Welfare

Village Level Child Protection Committees — Making the System Work

Village Level Child Protection Committees are community institutions created under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS), implemented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development. They are not a new idea created by NGOs — they are a government-mandated structure at ever...

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Sector Primer Grade B Child Welfare

Child Welfare in Odisha: What the World Has Learned, and What We Must Do Differently

There is a village in Malkangiri district — one of hundreds like it — that the nearest functional primary health centre cannot reach in under three hours by road. The Anganwadi worker assigned to it hasn't been paid in six months. The Child Welfare Committee for the block meets r...

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