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  1. Seven lessons from scaling up mHealth in India

    Sara Chamberlain, Radharani Mitra, Anna Godfrey

    ±«Óãtv Media Action

    Seven lessons from scaling up mHealth in India

    We take a deeper dive into what we learned from Kilkari, Mobile Academy and Mobile Kunji– our mobile health communication projects for frontline healthcare workers and families in India - following on from our exciting series in BMJ Global Health.

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  2. Designing for inclusion: From invisible to #Invaluables

    Varinder Kaur Gambhir, Soma Katiyar and Ragini Pasricha

    ±«Óãtv Media Action India

    Designing for inclusion: From invisible to #Invaluables

    Bengaluru, India’s Silicon Valley, generates 5,757 metric tonnes of solid waste per day, much of it recycled by informal waste pickers. Our Pathway to Respect, Identity, Dignity and Empowerment (PRIDE) project aims to connect them with the community for greater respect and dignity.

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  3. How poo became one of our biggest creative challenges yet

    Varinder Kaur Gambhir, Radharani Mitra, Anna Godfrey

    ±«Óãtv Media Action

    How poo became one of our biggest creative challenges yet

    How many of us ever think about what happens after we flush? Yet with 60% of urban India not connected to modern sewage systems, it is a pressing health issue. As we launch our latest in the Navrangi TV series, we look at the thinking behind this revolutionary drama.

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  4. How can digital technology empower women without worsening inequality?

    Sara Chamberlain

    Digital project director, ±«Óãtv Media Action India

    How can digital technology empower women without worsening inequality?

    How can we harness the digital revolution to empower women – socially, economically and politically - without creating deeper social and gender divides? Our Digital Women's Economic Empowerment learning in India is examining this question, with fascinating insights.

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  5. 5 steps to enable health workers to better meet the needs of hard-to-reach communities

    Genevieve Hutchinson and Emebet Wuhib-Mutungi

    Senior Health Advisors, Advisory and Policy

    5 steps to enable health workers to better meet the needs of hard-to-reach communities

    As World Health Day approaches, and as we look towards the first-ever UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage later this year, we’re sharing insights from ±«Óãtv Media Action’s work to help health workers and communities work better together to build a healthier world.

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  6. Using human-centred design to achieve your goals

    Radharani Mitra

    Global Creative Advisor, ±«Óãtv Media Action

    Using human-centred design to achieve your goals

    Taking a look behind the buzzwords to find out what human-centred design can do for pregnant women in India.

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  7. Tell me a story: narratives, behaviour change and neuroscience

    Radharani Mitra

    Global Creative Advisor, ±«Óãtv Media Action

    Tell me a story: narratives, behaviour change and neuroscience

    Radharani Mitra reflects on how narratives influence ideas and behaviour, the serious potential of comedy and how neuroscience can help build the evidence base for communication's role in development.

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  8. The case for adaptive programming

    Priyanka Dutt

    Country Director, ±«Óãtv Media Action India

    The case for adaptive programming

    India Country Priyanka Dutt discusses Majboor Kisko Bola! (Who are you calling helpless?), a project to prevent bonded labour, and what it taught her about her adaptive programming.

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  9. Design thinking and health communication: learning from failure

    Priyanka Dutt

    Country Director, ±«Óãtv Media Action India

    Design thinking and health communication: learning from failure

    What do you do when your audience is difficult to reach, tough to keep engaged and doesn’t understand concepts you take for granted? Priyanka Dutt offers some words of advice from her team’s experience of running a health communication ‘laboratory’ in Bihar, northern India.

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  10. Five questions our data portal can help answer

    Sonia Whitehead

    Head of Research Programmes, ±«Óãtv Media Action

    Five questions our data portal can help answer

    There's a lack of data on what ordinary people think, feel and want in developing countries. Our new Data Portal aims to help fix that.

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