Perspectives

To navigate community engagement in politically sensitive areas, development practitioners must ground their work in humility, empathy, and an ability to listen.

How do we resist the pull towards control and instead lean into the messiness of connection?

Nagaland’s hilly terrain, sparse population, and people’s preference for government jobs make entrepreneurship development challenging for nonprofits.

Philanthropy’s most important role is not to abstract solutions by distilling them into replicable frameworks. It is to nurture the connections that make them possible.

Instead of adopting the same inefficient methods of achieving our climate goals, we need to rethink the architecture of change.

Ashish Kothari, environmentalist and a founder of Kalpavriksh, highlights the importance of indigenous knowledge, collective action, and sustainable conservation as alternatives to mainstream development models.

Funders and nonprofits that want to do meaningful work in the eight states must first understand the needs of the communities, especially the young people in the region.

An impact investor shares practical lessons from his experience of helping organisations think through scale.

Developing active citizenship is key to empowering communities in a democracy. Here's how nonprofits can use constitutional values to cultivate and nurture engaged citizens.

While many organisations have adopted a systems change lens in their work, the lack of coordination among them is hampering their collective impact. Here's what needs to change.