School health and nutirion programs can contribue to achieving the goals of the Education for All initiative (EFA) by … helping children enroll on time, complete their education, and realize their cognitive potential. Achieving these goals … depends on reaching the children most in need. One strong feature of school health and nutrition programs is that they benefit …

sector, which encompasses both health and education. The World Bank's Human Development sector work covers almost the entire … human life cycle, from maternal and neo-natal health, health insurance, early childhood education, school health and … nutrition, basic education, to teacher reform, secondary education and youth skills, higher education, medical and health …

decentralization in India, summarizes the current fiscal situation of district, block and village panchayats, identifies the main … the rest of India. There is a hierarchical arrangement of center-state-local governance. The 73rd Amendment to the … Constitution made India one of the most politically decentralized countries in the developing world. By the Constitution and in …

This paper summarizes the findings of a study in rural load segregation for lighting rural India. The study focused on … guidance note for a national action plan on rural load segregation. Traditionally, power supply to agriculture in India has … subsidy for the agricultural sector in some states is twice the budgetary annual spending on health or rural development. It …

The year 2012 marked the close of the Government of India's (GoI's) Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC). The program was … outcomes. Finally, the outcomes achieved must be sustained to achieve downstream impacts such as improvements in health and …