Projects

Effective School Management and Leadership Programme

October 1, 2012 to April 30, 2014
| Completed Project
| Environment

Principals and senior school functionaries trained under this leadership training programme will as a spin off get actively involved in the cascading workshops. TERI will provide post-training support to all these master trainers and also help them in documenting success stories so as to share with the CBSE Board for wider dissemination.

YUVA (Youth Unite for Voluntary Action) Meet 2013

October 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013
| Completed Project

YUVA Meet is an anuual youth meet that provide college students and youth participants from across the world a platform to discuss, deliberate and debate on issuses related to Sustainable Development. The YUVA Meet 2013 will be held from 28-29 January 2013 at New Delhi on the theme, ‘Green Growth – Preparing Youth for Sustainable Living’.

TERI Environmental Survey 2013

October 1, 2012 to June 5, 2013
| Completed Project

The TERI Environmental Survey is assessing at people’s perception, behaviour, awareness and opinion towards the environment (air, water, waste and waste management, climate change, forest/green cover and cleanliness and health of surrounding areas). The study is being conducted in the six most populous cities in India (Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata).

Impacts of Electrification with Renewable Energies on Local Economies: The Case of India's Rural Areas

October 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013
| Completed Project

The purposes of this research are firstly to clarify an overall impact of rural electrification with renewable energies on local economies such as on employment, income, newly-developed industries, living standards, and poverty reduction, and secondly to identify significant impacts among them.

Scoping Study on Fostering Resource Efficiency in India - A key for sustainable growth

September 15, 2012 to April 1, 2013
| Completed Project

The aim of the study was to understand the rationale and scope for promoting resource efficiency in India. The focus of the study was particularly on minerals and metals. The study looked into the current and future patterns of primary and secondary production and consumption of minerals and metals in India.

Knowledge x-change on Sustainable Development

September 3, 2012 to June 24, 2015
| Completed Project
| Water | Forest & Biodiversity | Waste | Air | Health & Nutrition | Environment | Energy | Climate Change

The key objectives of KxSD are to:

Preparation of Project Identification Form (PIF) and Project Preparation Grant (PPG) Documents for the Demonstration and Promotion of Biomass-based Power Plants in Sierra Leone

August 7, 2012 to March 31, 2013
| Completed Project

The project activity is to describe the baseline power scenario in Sierra Leone and prepare the detailed product identification form (PIF) and project preparation grant (PPG) document for biomass power project promotion in Sierra Leone. The activity includes: Identification of the need for the project;

Fostering Community Forest Management in Nagaland

August 1, 2012 to April 24, 2014
| Completed Project
| Environment | Forest & Biodiversity

The project involves organisation of a sensitisation workshop at Kohima for officers, frontline staff and the community on REDD+, the organisation of a one week training and capacity building porgramme on REDD+ in New Delhi and the undertaking of an assessment for designing a field-level REDD+ project.

Resource use benchmarking and performance enhancement in selected Asian railway stations with comparative analysis of resource use

July 20, 2012 to January 31, 2013
| Completed Project

The project involves assessment of current resource consumption and use patterns by conducting energy, water, and waste audits in non-traction areas of the Indian Railway stations. Based on the data analysis from these audits, the baseline will be established.

Orientation courses on solar charging stations for senior officials of the LWE-affected districts

July 13, 2012 to November 24, 2012
| Completed Project

TERI will be conducting 5 one day workshops for senior district officials of the 60 LWE affected districts. The objectives are to sensitize them on operational and economic aspects of solar charging station thereby enabling them to replicate similar models in LWE districts. The workshops will be held in Patna, Bhopal, Ranchi, Bhubhneshwar and Raipur.