Your daily dose of headlines:

• Health: India continues to have the world’s highest number of polio cases this year, with the disease having crippled more children till April than it did during the same period in 2007. [Source: Times of India]
• Children: In…

Waste management is a significant challenge for India, specifically in urban areas, where the accumulation of trash leads to the prevalence of preventable diseases in poor, underprivileged populations. In order to address this issue, change is required on both a…

A recent article on www.sramanamitra.com postulates that SKS Microfinance, which offers “several microfinance options to the poor in India for a variety of businesses from agriculture and livestock purchase to basket weaving and photography,” and has to date “provided over $550 million…

Meena Gupta, a secretary at the Ministry of Environment and Forests, claims that the Indian government will soon add amendments to municipal solid waste management regulations, and highlighted the private sector’s role in exploring new projects. Merinews, a citizen journalism news portal,…

Some headlines to start your evening off right:

• The government of Himachal Pradesh announced at a three-day international conference this weekend that they are drafting a master plan for the development of backpack tourism in the state through strategic public private…

In a report entitled, “India’s Malnourished Children: A Call for Reform and Action,” the World Bank warned that malnutrition is a problem with “dire consequences for morbidity, mortality, productivity and economic growth.”  According to a recent Reuters article, this is especially…

From ProPoor.org:

Operationalising Public Private Partnerships for Disaster Management
Towards Resilient and Sustainability Goals

16 – 17 April 2008, Pragati Maidan
New Delhi, India

We are pleased to invite you to attend the Conference on Operationalising Public Private Partnerships for Disaster Management being held under…

From PFM Blog here is some excerpts on their primer on PPPs.

Though by no means a holistic definition, the primer briefly outlines public-private partnerships as being “arrangements in which the private sector supplies infrastructure assets and services traditionally provided by governments.…