Decentralisation is key to unlocking resilient livelihoods
What will it take to build resilience through livelihoods? What will ensure irreversible economic mobility for everyone? Is decentralisation the answer?
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‘Unbundling Climate Action’ focused on three aspects of climate action – mitigation, adaptation and resilience. It offered us an opportunity to connect with change leaders with whom we co-explored the journeys & the pivotal moments that led them down the path of climate action.
While the IPCC report tells us why it’s crucial to come together and take climate action, Extrapolations shows us what will happen if we don’t. Extrapolations is an assertion of the role of civil society, or samaaj, in making sure government institutions protect the rights of citizens and in co-creating decisions and/or solutions for collective wellbeing.
NMM (National Mentoring Mission), catalysed by NCTE (National Council for Teacher Education), focuses on how mentoring can accelerate the informal/formal transmission of knowledge and extend psychosocial support for professional development.
A big part of working together is cultivating safe and supportive spaces for wellbeing. These can look like holidays, organisational self-care, collaboration and even embracing failure as much as celebrating success. Nlighten ‘23 was one such space.
We launched the first edition of Societal Muse in February 2023. Since then, it has travelled far and wide, reaching change leaders, funders and thinkers across…
Societal Platform is now Societal Thinking!
Societal Muse gives us a glimpse into the experiences and efforts of change leaders who are using Societal Thinking to create change that inspires more change.
It is undeniable that we are living in the age of data. I believe we need an intersectional feminist lens to think about and design for empowering communities to see, sense and solve the problems they face.
While data has been driving decision-making in businesses and governments for a long time now, in the social sector too, entrepreneurs are increasingly using data to see and sense what is happening on-ground and using the findings to design better programmes, bring efficiency and measure impact better. However, where do citizens stand in this data narrative? Are they just passive recipients of someone else’s enhanced decision-making?