Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component projects under the RACHNA program, INHP-II and Chayan. Of the two, the INHP interventions reached massive scale primarily through the ICDS program and were subject to a large...

This paper presents a broad definition of social protection to include basic securities, such as income, food, health and shelter, and economic securities including having income generating productive work. A conceptual framework is developed to analyse the causes of insecurities of informal...

One third of the population of India are children below the age of 18 years. They are citizens of this country. Even though they do not vote, they have all rights as equal citizens of the country. How concerned are our parliamentarians about them- after all they represent them too. [HAQCRC].

MVF is present in 13 districts in Andhra Pradesh covering 137 manddals. Shankerpally Mandal, in Ranga Reddy district, has been a part of the MVF project since the biggining. As MVF has been a part of these communities for well over a decade, significant change can be observed, thus making the...

The report is a rich source with qualitative and quantitative data on the status of children in India from authentic and established sources. [HAQCRC report]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/CRC20BS_Vol%20I_1.pdf].

The Poverty Argument arises from the single fact that any family with a critically low level of income and struggling to keep “the wolf from the door†must, in order to survive, send the children to work The MVF Project rejects the Poverty Argument and its implication of the...

The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. [IZA Discussion Paper No. 115].

Child Labour in the hybrid cottonseed fields has caused much attention locally and internationally. Inexpensive labour is crucial for the farmers, as 52% of the cost of production goes toward human labour alone. Unfortunately 90% of the laborers are female children between the ages of seven and...