News & Updates

Vol 2 

Hope you enjoyed reading the first edition of The Byte! Thank you for taking the time and sharing your thoughts, we are constantly striving to make this a better reading experience for you.

In the second edition of The Byte, we bring to you what has been in the news earlier this month and what’s coming up! We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed curating this for you.

As always, we are happy to hear from you on anything exciting, insightful or useful and we will include it in the next edition of The Byte.

My Best, 

Angela Chaudhuri
Impact Catalyst @Swasti
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#Launchpad - Reaching the Unreached with RMNCH+A Services:
A Learning Brief on Health Inequity in Select Provinces of India

While efforts in the field of RMNCH+A health service delivery have intensified in recent years, many still remain unreached by these services. This brief uses evidence from the fourth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS 2015-16) to understand who remains unreached by key reproductive, maternal and child health services at the national level and in USAID/India Health office priority states. This brief will also be used by the Civil Society Engagement Mechanism to advocate for Universal Health Coverage at the UN High-Level Meeting on September 23, 2019.

#OutOfTheBox - Leverage Calculator for your Investments

We in the development sector love using the word 'Leverage', but do we know what it means? In grant funding parlance, it’s essentially a way to unlock other available resources. Like other investors, USAID uses Leverage as a tool to channel and generate resources from local economies in which they support development programmes - in USAID terms, Leverage implies unlocking and utilizing non-United States Government (USG) funds for the projects funded by them. But do we all calculate Leverage in the same way?

Here’s a calculator that some of you were a part of developing, and which some of you have tried using, to make the job easier.

You can download the manual for the calculator here and write to [email protected] if you have queries or need support using the calculator.

Big Data has the power to identify the nearly 1 million ‘missing’ TB patients in India, as well as those populations at highest risk of infection.

Join us at the inaugural L4i webinar on August 6 at 4 PM IST, as we explore the potential of this exciting new technology to help #EndTB, with expert speakers Dr. Kiran Rade, WHO; Dr. Amar Shah, USAID; and Dr. Rahul Panicker, Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

The Ministry of Health And Family Welfare hosted a National Experience Sharing and Learning workshop to share learnings, new initiatives, innovations, evidence and tools to strengthen the Adolescent Health Program in India.

This was attended by the 'Who's who of the adolescent health world'. In the spirit of this, here is a social listening monograph that summarizes what Youth Want.