Archives: Blog List

Date: 1st April, 2024 This study was undertaken across the three countries of India, Nepal and Bangladesh as a baseline to a proposed intervention project titled MUKTI South Asia funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons implemented by ECPAT Luxembourg and its partners. The study sought to… Continue reading Project to reduce cross-border child sex trafficking and re-trafficking of survivors in India, Nepal and Bangladesh

Date: 24th February, 2024 SIGMA Foundation is excited to share that a case study on “Self-Sufficient Community – Run Water Supply Scheme at the Foothills of Himalayas: Swajaldhara Piped Water Supply Scheme, Sisodangi Gulma Tea Estate, Darjeeling” authored by Dr. Debasri Mukherjee (Sr. Research Officer), Dr. M.N. Roy (President), Er. Sohini Tarafdar (Research officer), Mr.… Continue reading Case Study by SIGMA Foundation, gets recognized as one of the Best Global Municipal & Industrial Case Studies by Everything about Water (EAW)- India’s First Water E- Magazine

Date: 22nd February, 2024 UNICEF has partnered with SIGMA Foundation to sustain Open Defecation Free (ODF) status and to also manage solid and liquid waste scientifically, known as ODF plus activities under the Swachh Bharat Mission Phase II. Further, the related services should be improved to make those Climates Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable (CCES). This… Continue reading SIGMA Foundation Joins Hand with UNICEF in Building Capacity of Gram Panchayats to Sustain Open Defecation Free Status and Manage Solid and Liquid Wastes with Climate Resilience and Environmental Sustainability

Dated: 9th February, 2024 We are immensely proud to announce that one of our publications by our research stalwarts, Dr. Debasri Mukherjee (Sr. Research Officer) and Dr. M. N. Roy (President) have been published in the globally prestigious journal named World Focus (Peer reviewed) under special issue of COP 28, UAE, Climate Change and Global… Continue reading Research Paper from SIGMA Foundation grabs a prestigious place in World Focus Issue on COP 28, UAE

Date: 31st January, 2024 SIGMA Foundation was engaged as an Independent Support Agency (ISA) for implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) in October 2021 for a period of one year. The engagement has been renewed in 2022 and 2023 and this is the third year of continuous support that SIGMA Foundation has been providing to… Continue reading SIGMA Foundation makes significant contribution in Implementation of JJM in Maharashtra

India accounts for 27 percent of the total TB cases in the world, according to the recently released Global TB Report 2023 by the World Health Organisation. Almost 28.2 lakh people in India got tuberculosis in 2022 with an estimated incidence rate of 199 cases per 100,000 population. India has set a target of eliminating… Continue reading SIGMA Foundation is working towards understanding the status of Tuberculosis and associated factors in Chest Clinics of Kolkata

Date: 5 December, 2023 This November SIGMA Foundation has been engaged as the Implementation Support Agency (ISA) by Public Health Engineering Directorate, Govt. of West Bengal for implementation of community mobilization and capacity building activities at Darjeeling and Kalimpong Districts in West Bengal for implementation of the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM). JJM is being implemented… Continue reading SIGMA Foundation sets foot in the Hills of Bengal as ISA under Jal Jeevan Mission being implemented by PHED, Govt. of West Bengal

Date: 14 September 2023 SIGMA Foundation was engaged by the PHED West Bengal to be the NGO Contractor under the Asian Development Bank (ADB) assisted WBDWSIP for the district of Bankura. The period of engagement was from June 2019 to December 2022 and the project value was around Rs 1.41 crore. SIGMA Foundation has successfully… Continue reading Enabling and Skilling Communities of Bankura district under ADB funded West Bengal Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project (WBDWSIP)

Date: 10th August, 2023 Mica is a mineral which is used vastly in electrical products, automobiles, paint, toothpaste and cosmetics. Koderma and Giridih districts of Jharkhand and Nawada and Jamui districts of Bihar are richly endowed with good quality mica deposits. Bal Mitra Gram (BMG)TM or Child Friendly Village (CFV)TM model of Kailash Satyarthi Children’s… Continue reading SIGMA Foundation completes a study on “Impact of The Bal Mitra Gram Programme on The Protection of Child Rights in the Mica Mining Districts of Koderma And Giridih, Jharkhand”

Date: 3rd August 2023 There is need to ensure that the large adolescent population in India (253.2 million) reach their full potential and productivity for the growth and development of the country. This idea is embedded in the launch of the Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) programme by the GoI, under the ‘National Adolescent Health Strategy’… Continue reading SIGMA Foundation completes “Endline Assessment Of Strengthening Implementation Of Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) Program In Bhadrak District, Odisha”