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SIGMA Foundation was invited in a workshop on “Menstrual Hygiene Management: Access Livelihood and Disposal Issues” jointly organised by Fulcrum Hygiene Solutions and UTSA on 28th November, 2018 in Rotary Sadan, Kolkata. On behalf of SIGMA Foundation Dr. Baishali Bal, Mayuri Sen and Sohini Tarafdar attended the program. Interactions were held with Government Functionaries of… Continue reading Workshop on Menstrual Hygiene Management

he India UK Water Centre (IUKWC) is a virtual Joint Centre between the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Govt of India and the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), UK; hosted by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in India and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in the UK. IUKWC implemented its first set of… Continue reading India-UK Water Centre Workshop

SIGMA Foundation got the opportunity to present the paper on “Environmental Enteropathy” which was jointly written by Dr. M. N. Roy and Dr. Debasri Mukherjee during the ‘INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on Human Health and Sustainable Development Global Environmental Challenges’ at JNU New Delhi, on the 11th of January 2019. This conference was technically and financially supported… Continue reading ESDACON 2019, New Delhi

European Union organised a Water Conference on the 13th to 15th March in Paris, France where SIGMA Foundation got the opportunity to release a video on water through French Embassy. This video covered the following issues as per Embassy’s requirement: Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG – 6) has laid a specific target to be achieved… Continue reading Release of a Video of SIGMA Foundation in the Water Conference in Paris

SIGMA Foundation took a stride forward to leave no one behind by celebrating “World Water Day 2019 themed leaving no one behind” at the grassroot level with the community cluster of FSP, SOS Children’s Village, Kolkata (slum areas of Rajarhat and Narayanpur). The initiative was led by Dr. Debasri Mukherjee, Dr. Sabari Bandopadhyay and Soumyajit… Continue reading Celebration of World Water Day, 2019

The Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) aims to provide potable piped water to every rural household in India by 2024. To facilitate the above mission in the country, five 2-day consultative regional workshops have been scheduled to be organised by Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation under Ministry of Jal Shakti with important stake holders and… Continue reading West Bengal to put first foot forward for Implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) holding hands of SIGMA Foundation

SIGMA Foundation has been selected through bidding process to take up the work of “Planning of Scientific Solid Waste Management in Municipal towns/cities” in three zones of the state which covers 32 City Corporations/Municipalities. The work is divided broadly in two categories. The first phase includes conducting an area survey and assess the existing system… Continue reading SIGMA Foundation to prepare micro-plan for Solid Waste Management of 32 Urban Local Bodies in West Bengal in collaboration with State Urban Development Agency (SUDA)

On 26 November 2019 a dissemination workshop was organized at Mumbai by UNICEF Maharashtra and Department of Rural Development, Government of Maharashtra regarding studies conducted in 2018-19 on local governance in Maharashtra. SIGMA Foundation’s President, Dr M.N. Roy presented the results of the study on Gram Panchayat Development Plans in Maharashtra (GPDP) along with Mr… Continue reading Gram Panchayat Plans in Maharashtra should be more participatory: Dr. M. N. Roy

Under the Asian Development Bank (ADB) financed “West Bengal Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project (WBDWSIP)”, SIGMA Foundation recently conducted time use surveys with 60 women and 60 men in 12 villages across 4 project blocks in Bankura. The primary objective of the survey was to measure time being spent by women in fetching water and… Continue reading Time Use Surveys across 4 Blocks at Bankura district

SIGMA Foundation made a significant mark in International Chapters of Water Research in LET2019- 16th IWA Leading Edge Conference on Water and Waste Water Technologies in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Significantly, new critical water technology developments are emerging continuously and we all know about the importance to keep in exchange on latest research, to keep the… Continue reading LET 2019-Edinburgh Scotland, UK