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About 300 million people in India, most of them in rural areas, live without reliable electricity. Without electricity, people’s livelihood options are limited, access to basic services is restricted, and …

Government affirmation of off-grid models being a complementary way of viable electricity provision will be critical to unlocking market potential. A quarter of the world’s energy poor live in India. This …

See firsthand the transformative power of energy access on people’s lives by viewing  “Power in Hand”: a virtual reality experience. Mobile users, click to view the virtual reality film on YouTube …

This post originally appeared on Trust.org.  When India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with President Donald Trump this week in Washington, it will be a telling encounter—not only for the U.S.-India …

The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC), the organization I founded with many dear friends and fellow activists in 1984, is now over three decades old. While …

United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.8 calls for Member states to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030. Realizing this ambitious goal will require both political will from national …

Just shy of a decade ago, The Rockefeller Foundation broke from a long tradition of focusing its health-related work on disease-specific interventions. Instead, it began to explore the question of …

An estimated 83 million rural households across India still struggle for access to a dependable source of electricity, making them particularly vulnerable, as cities take precedence over “last mile” connections …