resilience
Pandemic Resilience in Urban India

Examples, lessons, and specific recommendations for communities, civil society organisations, and government agencies.

The Guardians of Life

Testimonies of communities resisting and reconstructing, the beauty in struggle, resilience and strength found in being fully alive in troubled times.

Perumbakkam way- Community efforts towards climate resilience

Helping community members bounce back from difficulties and improve their capacity to face risks, environmental or otherwise.

In Ahmednagar, residents of a slum design their own homes

"... Just asking the communities that they are building for, how is it that they imagine their home to look?”

Defenders Of The Forest: How Forest Dwelling-Communities Of Gondia Are Regenerating Forests

"We know for a fact that if our forests are saved, our future generation is safe."

Goonj Initiative Helps Bihar Villagers Build Bamboo Bridge Amid Floods

With 250 pieces of bamboo sticks, the determined locals toiled for five days to build a 400-metre-long and 1.5-metre-wide bridge.

Gandhi’s relevance in the time of global crises

For Gandhi, swaraj had to be built ‘bottom-up’, from the village outwards across the landscape ...

India needs a rainbow recovery plan

... sustainable livelihoods, to be built on regenerating and safeguarding the soil, natural ecosystems, water, biological diversity, and air.

खेती सुधार अधिनियम २०२० (in Hindi)

किसानों को कैसे बचाया जा सकता है?  कृषि उत्पादों के लिए एमआरपी जैसी कम से कम कीमतें जारी करने के जरिये?