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The IFP heading a project on « Democracy and access to healthcare”
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The Monitoring Committee of the activities of the French Research Institutes in India (IFP and CSH) which was held in Pondicherry in March 2006 rightly insisted on the necessity for these research institutes to step to a next phase of « full integration », which would be demonstrated through the co-writing and co-direction of Indo-French projects. These recommendations immediately met with a response from the IFP.
The project "Institutionalising Indian Medicines: Challenges to Governance and Sustainable Development (IIM)” submitted by L.Pordié, Head of the social sciences department of the IFP and N.Lalitha, researcher at the Gujarat Institute for Development Research (GIDR) has been chosen in the framework of the transversal programme of the French Research Institutes Abroad (IFRE) “Democratic mutations in emerging countries: comparison between Latin America, Africa, Asia. 1990-2005”.
The IIM project, hosted and coordinated by the IFP, unites Indian and European researchers. It represents an additional panel to the regional programme « Societies and Medicines in South Asia ». The setup of this programme and the nature of its content- which satisfy an Indian request- are perfectly in line with a logic of Indo-French cooperation and underline the full integration of the IFP in the landscape of social sciences and health in India.