Coverage
of Developmental Issues : Status and Plan
While most of the developmental challenges are common
to all the countries - e.g. education, health, water ...., there
are some issues which are country driven. e.g. In India, the issue
of adoption is key. Of the estimated 25 million children without
parents or parental love, only 3500 get adopted every year. To
ensure that these critical issues get due importance, we have
engineered the portal in a manner so that the coverage of issues
is country wise. Of course, you will have cross linkages between
countries, to ensure that we learn from successful experiments
and failures from other countries.
As the part of the first phase of our pilot, between
now till 15th December 2011, we will share the developmental issues
India faces. Based on this, in the reminder phase of the first
phase, which ends on 31st March 2011, we will start inviting experts
on multiple issues across multiple countries to share the developmental
challenges in their countries.
January 1, 2012 to
March 31, 2012 350 Interviews from 75 countries.
Agriculture : 30
Children : 50
Climate Change : 30
Education : 50
Environment : 30
HIV : 20
Food : 30
Population : 50
Poverty : 30
Trafficiking : 30
Water : 50
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