Education in the Age of Climate Crisis: How Teacher Autonomy Can Be the Innovation We Need
4 min read From sweltering summers and harsher winters to tangible air pollution and people struggling to catch a breath of fresh air: fighting climate change is a global effort. Vietnam is among the top five countries at the receiving end of climate changes’ catastrophic impact. According to the World Bank (2019), “almost 60 percent […]
Greening Sanitary Care for Women
Padcare Labs Private Limited Menstrual management is an underserved space in climate action and health. Thus, PadCare aims to serve as a hygiene management solution that completes the loop of the menstrual hygiene economy by generating harmless, recyclable output out of soiled pads. We seek to bring about positive and significant changes in the sanitary […]
Mobilising Partnerships and Philanthropy to Build Resilient Communities in Asia Pacific: Roundtable Insights Report
Mobilising Partnerships and Philanthropy to Build Resilient Communities in Asia Pacific: Roundtable Insights Report captures key learnings from a convening co-hosted by AVPN and WWF
Paving the way for South Asia in The Asian Decade-Learning from the AVPN South Asia Summit
9 min read The world needs to focus on Asia if it has to achieve its Sustainable Development Goals. As a region that is huge, unique, complex, home to six times the population of any other region and 1/3rd of the social investors, Asia is making significant strides in the face of development, but there’s […]
Repurposing Used Cooking Oil for Biofuel
KNP Arises – Green Energy Pvt Ltd India’s food regulator reports that 2.2 billion litres of used cooking oil are discarded each year nationwide. Owing to a lack of awareness and infrastructure, much of this oil is reused, and redirected into several different channels, with an estimated 60% being resold to street food vendors. The […]
Scaling Access to WASH Services in India: Analysing Systemic Challenges
Co Author: Bhawani Maurya 4 min read India produces 277.1 million tonnes of solid waste every year, which is likely to touch 387.8 million tonnes in 2030. As urbanization grows in India, it can be expected that the waste generated and pressure on civic sanitation and water facilities will only increase. Over the recent year, Water, […]
SDG Progress Continues to Stall in Asia-Pacific following COVID-19
5 min read The newly published Sustainable Development Report (SDR) 2022 provides a detailed analysis of how the Asia-Pacific, and the world more generally, is progressing towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). All United Nations member states adopted these transformational goals for economic, social, and environmental sustainability to be met by 2030. The SDR 2022 […]
What Social Change Looks Like When Communities Decide for Themselves
Image: Community members from Vihule Kond village in Mangaon block of district Raigad came together for soil conservation 5 min read Co-Author: Pritha Venkatachalam and Anuja Kadam There are many names for the value of local knowledge in different spaces. In sports it’s the “home advantage”; in business, the “incumbent’s advantage”; in urban life, it’s […]
