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As temperatures rise in Nagaland's Dimapur, women street vendors are drawing on traditional practices and strong civil-society networks, revealing an alternative, more intimate model of urban resilience.

Led by Vinoba Bhave, Gramdan, or collective land ownership by villages, emerged as a major social movement in the 1950s and ‘60s. While more than 3,000 gramdani villages exist even today, these communities face complex challenges.

Originally devised to help organisations reflect and learn from their work, monitoring, evaluation, and learning has been reduced to a reporting tool. How can this change?

Social science research often involves collecting personal and sensitive information. Data de-identification is one key way researchers can protect participants’ privacy.

By early 2025, 10,000 FPOs had been set up in India under a central government scheme. But a focus on targets risks undermining what makes FPOs truly viable—community ownership, infrastructure, and capacity building.

Scaling impact isn’t about doing more, it’s about enabling others. Here's how decentralised delivery and shared ownership can drive scale.

In Arunachal Pradesh, a young nonprofit’s journey highlights the importance of community collaboration and consent in language conservation.

From forests and grazing lands to wetlands and coastlines, India’s commons are vital buffers against the climate crisis. Yet, climate policies often overlook these ecosystems and the people that protect them.

Embedding units across all tiers of administration can help nonprofits combine community knowledge and innovation with the government’s scale.

Rising temperatures and pollution in Tamil Nadu are pushing maternal mental health to the brink. Targeted state action that supports the well-being of mothers and their children is essential.