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Living through Cyclone Amphan and Covid-19: Climate change and water security
Posted on 07 Jun, 2020 11:33 AMThe nomenclature of cyclones and hurricanes is developed much in advance through multilateral processes in the region. The name Amphan (Sky in Thai and Akash in Bangla) was chosen from a long list of potential disasters long back.
![Millions of people in India and Bangladesh lost their means of employment, food, water and homes in one go during the cyclone (Image: Srikanth Kolari/ActionAid India)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/amphan-actionaid_0.jpg?itok=v5DT_Pc5)
Covid-19 hits women’s access to menstrual hygiene products
Posted on 04 Jun, 2020 08:49 AMIn an effort to raise concerns around effective menstrual health, Menstrual Health Alliance India (MHAI), a network working on menstrual health and hygiene in India, Dasra, a philanthropic organisation and Change.org, a technology platform for social change hosted an online workshop recent
![Menstrual cycle and personal hygiene items (Image: Marco Verch, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0); Flickr Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pads.jpg?itok=Gw_O55ek)
Lockdown puts citymakers at risk
Posted on 28 May, 2020 01:22 PMSuddenly thrown out of work by a nationwide lockdown, the migrants who built our cities and our economies were forced to take the torturous walk away from the cities to their homes in rural India.
![A worker at a construction site (Image: ILO/ Joydeep Mukherjee; NC-ND 3.0 IGO License)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/construction_worker-ilo-asiapacific.jpg?itok=6naFzw13)
Mumbai slums fight Covid-19
Posted on 26 May, 2020 06:43 AMAnand Jagtap, ex Officer on Special Duty (OSD) at the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), the winner of the Lingaraja Memorial Award and a PhD scholar at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai has been associated with the Slum Sanitation Programme (SSP) undertaken by MCGM with support from the World Bank since 1997 to 2005.
![Flushing the virus, in times of Covid-19 (Image Source: Anand Jagtap)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/jagtap1.jpg?itok=Eh_sT4oY)
Menstrual hygiene needs, in times of Covid-19
Posted on 25 May, 2020 11:06 AMDeane De Menezes is the founder of Red is the New Green (RING) – an award winning social enterprise working towards reducing the social stigma attached to menstruation.
![Managing menstrual hygiene, in times of Covid-19 (Image Source: RISE Foundation)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/deane1.jpg?itok=mn1VBVPw)
Covid-19 threatens to worsen India's water crisis
Posted on 24 May, 2020 12:50 AMWhile the world has got a reprieve from pollution with emerging wildlife, cleaner air and clearer water bodies during lockdown, Covid-19 might actually be worsening the present water crisis in an inconspicuous manner. The world is still developing more clarity on safeguards that can prevent transmission, treatment and post treatment complications.
![Marine litter. Plastic bottles on a beach. (Image: Bo Eide, Flickr Commons; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/marine_plastic.jpg?itok=rVbtp9Dy)
Flushing away Covid-19, the Mumbai way!
Posted on 23 May, 2020 11:55 AMSlums, fast growing Covid-19 hotspots!
![Training safai and cremation workers on safe practices during the corona pandemic (Image Source: Triratna Prerna Mandal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/maharashtra_covid.jpg?itok=xXcJQ3K8)
Technology to build knowledge and capacities beyond COVID
Posted on 22 May, 2020 09:14 AMThe COVID-19 crisis has brought the world to a standstill. Government, civil society and volunteers are rallying to ensure that social and economic inequalities do not dictate how this crisis draws lines between the “haves” and “have-nots”. Nonetheless, the crisis seems to have deepened the existing divide.
![Bringing the digital revolution to the hands of real India (Image: CXOToday.com)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/digital-india-lead.jpg?itok=3frwAeAR)
Covid-19 could push 260 million Indians into poverty: Research
Posted on 20 May, 2020 10:42 AMNearly 260 million Indian could be pushed to poverty due to Covid-19: Researchers
![Covid-19 could push 260 million Indians into poverty (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/24260768078_4f04b89c73_c.jpg?itok=Vp-4MhqH)
WASH warriors, in the making!
Posted on 15 May, 2020 03:17 PMCitizens Association for Child Rights (CACR) works with municipal schools in Mumbai with a focus on WASH and menstrual hygiene management and even a digital literacy programme.
![WASH warriors, in the making! (Image Source: CACR)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/cacr.png?itok=jDJBwsuI)