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Ending India’s 70-year tryst with Malaria

Independence Day Special “Let us all rise to the occasion to give India #FreedomFromMalaria.@Caritas_India remains committed” - Fr. Frederick D’Souza, Executive Director Independence Day provides an opportunity for citizens to reflect on their hopes, aspirations, and anxieties for India and the promise this nation holds for them. Malaria is one of those problems that has been a cause of anxiety for India since centuries but one that presents

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Peace Education in Manipur

[widget id="text-20"][catlist name=emergency-drr] [widget id="text-21"] TIMELINE: August 2011 to July 2014 Peace Education programme primarily focused on promoting peace education and education on reconciliation options in different colleges, schools and communities, to sensitize them on conflict issues towards promotion of good relations among them. GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE: Districts-06; Block-13 and villages-35 DEMOGRAPHIC COVERAGE: IMPLEMENTING

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Immediate emergency relief to 2015 Tamil Nadu flood victims

[widget id="text-20"][catlist name=emergency-drr] [widget id="text-21"]   TIMELINE: December 2015 to January 2016 In 2015, unprecedented floods in Tamil Nadu resulted from heavy rainfall during the annual northeast monsoon in November–December 2015. Apart from Chennai, Cuddalore, Kancheepuram, Tiruvalur and Vilupuram were among other worst affected districts. Around 1.8 million people had been displaced. The intervention intended to provide

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Peace Building Initiatives among the youth of India and Pakistan

[widget id="text-20"][catlist name=emergency-drr] [widget id="text-21"]   TIMELINE: 2013-2014 The Global Peace Index (2013), that take into account estimated the number of deaths due to internal disturbances, level of perceived criminality in society, level of respect for human rights, terrorist’s activities, number of jailed persons, numbers of violent demonstrations, and access to small arms etc, ranks India 141st and Pakistan 153rd out

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Ecosystem Restoration and Climate Change Partners for Resilience (PfR)

[widget id="text-20"][catlist name=emergency-drr] [widget id="text-21"]   TIMELINE: January 2011 - December 2015 The programme aimed at reducing the loss of life and property and mortality rate. The programme methodology based on the stakeholders’ analysis involved the District authorities. Academic institution, Panchayati Raj Institutions, CBOs, families and communities were involved at every stage of programme planning and implementation

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Short term disaster recovery programme, Bihar flood 2013

[widget id="text-20"][catlist numberposts=20 name=emergency-drr] [widget id="text-21"]   TIMELINE: 2013 October –April 2015 Bihar faced both floods and drought at the same time in 2013. Floods were on account of heavy rainfall in the upper Ganges (Ganga) basin of Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand and Madhya Pradesh between July-August 2013. The districts close to river Ganges, especially the inland villages along and on the basin suffered through

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Justice Venture

[widget id="text-20"][catlist name=emergency-drr] [widget id="text-21"]   TIMELINE: March 2012 –Feb 2014 Caritas India supported the Justice Venture and sustainable peace building initiative in Kandhamal district in Odisha after the communal riot broke out in 2008. With the objective of facilitating recovery for restarting their lives, the riot affected victims and survivors were handheld in securing the legal documents they had lost to the

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Sustainable Agriculture through Farmer led Approach and Regenerative Initiatives

[widget id="text-20"][catlist name=natural-resource-management] [widget id="text-21"]   TIMELINE: September 2013-August 2016 Agriculture in India is going through a massive slowdown by onslaught of various ‘developmental projects’ and fall outs of the Green revolution in India in 1960s, to meet the food requirements. The introduction of hybrid sees and chemical fertilisers and pesticides became commercially beneficial with time.  The indiscriminate

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