Year 2024 marked the 10th Anniversary of Vikalp Sangam (VS).

Realising our visions, among other actions, includes a rigorous and diligent effort to build a comprehensive understanding of our unique history.

At the mark of a decade, it was a befitting time to look back at the network’s genesis, its objectives and the journey thereafter. With that vision in mind, we documented Vikalp Sangam’s Institutional Memory, to capture the Vikalp Sangam process, the unique insights and learnings of the members along their journey.

Objectives of the review

• WHY was Vikalp Sangam instituted- what did it set out to do and how
• The structure of the network- its decentralisation process, the governing bodies, member constituents
• Articulation of the diverse visions of the network across its member organisations over the past decade
• How did the idea of holding Sangams come into being?- The different themes/kinds, the process of designing a Sangam
• Milestones and the key insights and learnings that qualify them. Determining achievement/impact in a qualitative sense.
• Laying out the network’s failures: what did it set out to do and couldn’t, challenges that haven’t been overcome.

Read the full document here.

About the author

Arnaz is the Editor-Curator of the Vikalp Sangam website and a member of Kalpavriksh. A media professional as well as a facilitator, her work is in slow knowledge, documentation, conscious media practices, building deep democracy processes and conflict resolution.

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