Co-creating in our grassroots lab
Challenges
The World Inequality Report 2022 found India to be amongst the most socio-economically unequal countries in the world.
Analysing data from global, national and local research conducted on socio-economic inequality in India, we found the need to dive deeper into two important challenges widely prevalent across rural and urban contexts -
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Status of women in society
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Challenges of trickle-down models of development
Our Workscape
Themes
In our research and on-ground work, we have found women’s economic participation, civic engagement and a meaningful social life in the public sphere as the three important dimensions that shape the axis of community development.
Our Approach
We choose sites - primarily slums and urban villages that meet the governance criteria of low-income urban informal settlements. We work towards weaving these sites as emerging working models that advance learning and engagement on sustainable community development.
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Our grassroots lab focuses on building methods and practices that go beyond the workings of top-down and bottom-up approach. We work towards co-creation of sustainability designs and grassroots action that keep women’s proactive participation in public life at the centre of socio-economic development of communities.
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