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Meghalaya needs health data that reflects its ethnic and geographic diversity. Sophisticated dashboards are only half the solution.

Three nonprofits share lessons from building and deploying AI solutions for India’s public institutions.

Working within broken systems won't help fix them. Real change depends on political will, and civil society must engage with politics to unlock it.

The pathway to solving the root problem instead of treating symptoms runs through the public system.

The growing preoccupation with systems change risks distorting priorities and undermining meaningful work on the ground.

Improving public health in India is not merely about spending more money. It hinges on systems that build trust, reward effort and pool risk.

For Adivasi communities in Karnataka, health and subsistence are inseparable from forests and the history of displacement they carry. Healthcare, then, is not simply a matter of 'free' medicines or hospitals, but respecting our rights, knowledge, and dignity.

Courts, communities, and the state are turning to geospatial tools to monitor encroachments, restore commons, and land governance but challenges remain.

Social sector spending drops to its lowest in a decade. Key schemes for housing, water, and minorities remain underutilised even as allocations shrink further.

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