SOUTH ASIA

A Matter of Magnitude

A Region of Paradox

1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 20120

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Bangladesh 5.81

Sri Lanka 5

Poverty

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GDP growth annual (%) 2000-2010Source World Bank

A Matter of Fact

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Highest Number of Hungry in SA

SourceUNICEF, WHOJMP, Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition

A Matter of Fact

Source - http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTANNREP2010/Resources/7074178-1285788609189/finance0401_income_povests.pdf

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A MATTER OF SCALE

• Bulk of the world’s poor live in South Asia

• Bulk of the world’s child marriages

• Nearly half of all under fives malnourished

• Highest numbers of children giving birth to children

Source SOWC 2011

A Matter of Scale

• The World will not meet MDGs without South Asia

• South Asia will not meet MDGs without India

• India with not meet MDGs without its ‘BIMARU’ states

Nutrition and Sanitation

Maternal Mortality Ratio

• Bangladesh-350• India-250• Pakistan-280• Nepal-280

Source - SOWC 2011

Floods

Conflict

Undeclared Emergency

Matter of Emergency

Matter of Emergency

75 % global flood mortality risk in Bangladesh, China and India.

Bangladesh and India account for 85 per cent of cyclone deaths.

Asia-Pacific region 50 % of the total world disasters, More than 70 per cent of lives lost to disasters occur in this region.

Source 2009 Global Assessment Report,

MATTER OF PROTECTION

Child Soldiers

Suicide Bombers

Attacks on Girls schools

Violence against children

Child and Bonded Labour

Domestic violence

Child Trafficking

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A Matter of Equity

A Matter of Unique Equity Dalit

Female

Widow

Handicapped

– The lowest in the Equity ladder

Unique nature of inequality in

South Asia

Sex, caste, class, tribe, religion, colour, stigma

Orissa video

What Matters Now

Strategic Vision Beyond Silos – Integration and Convergence

• Polio and Sanitation• Healthy Hat-trick – ACC• Teens and Tots – Unlocking the enigma of persistent poverty

and malnutrition

Photo courtesy -Altaf Qadri

A MATTER OF INNOVATION

Communication on social change

Text Messages and New Media

Mobile phones

Forging links with TED

Lady Health Workers – Pakistan

Swimming to Survive – Bangladesh

Adolescents clubs