Solution Exchange has eleven active Communities.  Three more are in the pipeline to start in early 2008, and one is planned for later in the year. Communities are organized around selected development targets of both India's Five Year Plans and the globally mandated Millennium Development Goals, contributing to their successful achievement.

If you are a development practitioner, you are invited to join one or more Solution Exchange communities. To join a Community  click the on the "Sign up" link, below, or the navigation bar on the right, which takes you to the Community's Home Page. 

• AIDS  Details | Members | Consolidated Replies | Sign up
  Addressing challenges to achieving National AIDS Control Programme objectives for treatment and care of persons living with HIV and AIDS and preventing the spread of new infections
   
  
• Decentralization  Details | Members | Consolidated Replies | Sign up |
  Addressing challenges faced with respect to political, functional, administrative and financial decentralization, including sectoral decentralization and privatization of services
   
  
• Disaster Management Details | Members | Consolidated Replies | Sign up |
  Concerned with preparedness, mitigation, response, recovery and rehabilitation issues with respect to disasters (natural and human-induced)
   
  
• Education  Details | Members | Consolidated Replies | Sign up |
  Addressing challenges to meeting national and globally mandated goals with respect to improving the quality of basic education, and promoting access and enrolment through primary levels.
   
  
• Food and Nutrition Security Details | Members | Consolidated Replies | Sign up |
  Addressing challenges to meeting the country's food and nutrition security goals - household agricultural production, food-related social safety nets, food safety, and dietary diversification
   
  
• Gender  Details | Members | Consolidated Replies | Sign up |
  Addressing challenges to women's involvement in development - increased access, capacity, and equality in women's social, economic and political endeavors
   
  
• ICT for Development  Details | Members | Consolidated Replies | Sign up |
  Promoting information and communication technologies as an enabler for sustainable development and as an alternative means of livelihood for grassroots communities of India
   
  
• Maternal and Child Health  Details | Members | Consolidated Replies | Sign up |
  Addressing challenges facing public health and nutrition practitioners engaged in reducing infant mortality and maternal mortality
   
  
• Microfinance  Details | Members | Consolidated Replies | Sign up |
  Addressing challenges to providing the poor with financial services for meeting basic needs, enhancing investment in income generating and asset-building activities, and addressing risks
   
  
• Water  Details  | Members | Consolidated Replies | Sign up |
  Addressing water and environmental sanitation challenges in rural and urban areas in India - including access, quality, management and service delivery
   
  
• Work and Employment Details | Members | Consolidated Replies | Sign up |
  Addressing challenges faced by practitioners engaged in reducing poverty in India through promoting gainful, high-quality work and employment opportunities
   
  

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• Climate Change Technologies  Details | Sign up |
  Addressing impacts of climate change on the environment and human development, and efforts to mitigate these changes – including adaptation, environmental finance, and regulatory and policy frameworks.
  

• Sustainable Environment  Details | Sign up |
  Promoting responsible management of India’s forest, land and water resources, focusing on the dynamics and challenges of conservation and sustainable utilization