What do the Indian Lok Sabha elections exit polls have to teach us about social impact? What does the foregrounding of positionality in all aspects of work, one of Chisel for Impact’s treasured values, have to do with exit polls? Read more to find out. #socialimpact #socialjustice #positionality #community #actors #indianelectionexitpolls #exitpolls
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- 2023
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Chisel for Impact harnesses community knowledge for change. Check out what this means. #communityknowledge #indigenouswisdom #socialjustice #socialimpact
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Community knowledge or traditional knowledge sometimes gets left behind in social development work. Most times, it is to the detriment of the project in question. Read how community knowledge can help. #communityknowledge #socialimpact #socialjustice #traditionalknowledge
#Diversity #Inclusion | In Bhandara and Gondia districts of Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region, members of the Dheevar fishing community look for a sign in the water to know when it’s time to till the land. It appears on the belly of a freshwater fish—the 4-cm-long kalvali—as a thin orange line that informs them that it is fish breeding season. The mark also tells them that the monsoon is five or six days away. Traditional knowledge is what has helped the fishing cooperatives of Bhandara and Gondia revive their inland lakes and tanks, restore their biodiversity, and enhance their livelihoods. And yet, traditional or grassroots knowledge is bound not only by cordons of class, caste, gender, religion, and region, but also by hardened precepts that determine what constitutes knowledge and its place on the ladder of legitimacy. Entrenched systems of power privilege literacy over lore and laboratories over lived experience, assigning a greater value to academic knowledge than to wisdom found outside formal institutions—in the homes and fields of people. Traditional knowledge systems in India have been left out of institutional models of learning. Read this article by Joeanna Rebello Fernandes and Anjali Mishra to learn how including them can empower communities and drive development. https://lnkd.in/dkx5brnk
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Chisel for Impact upholds the value of Rights-holders First! What does this mean? Read to find out. #rightsholders #humanrights #culturalrights #sustainability #developmentdiscourse #socialjustice #communityengagement #equity #socialimpact
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Did you know that only 10% and 11% of rural and urban elderly women respectively were found to be economically independent? Compare that to 48% and 75% of the rural and urban men from the same category? The figures tell us a story. What kind of investigations can we use this data for? Reply in the comments. #Ageing #gender #feminisationofageing #elderlypopulation #socialjustice #socialimpact #research
India observed a higher level of financial dependency among the elderly population along with the high gender and statewise disparities. Policy changes and programmes must pay attention to the unique needs and situations of the elderly. https://lnkd.in/dumKKFEg
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What does Chisel for Impact offer for you? #socialimpact #socialjustice #monitoringandevaluation #programimplementation #impactassessment #policyreview #policyanalysis #policydesign
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It is World Refugee Day. A time to think not only of the precarious conditions that refugees flee but also the precarity that engulfs them in their new place of settlement. 2023 and 2024 has seen historical levels of forced displacement. In this article Nandita Haskar speaks of the indignities suffered by refugees in their new place of settlement. What does being a refugee in India entail? #worldrefugeeday #socialjustice #refugees #refugeesinIndia #humanrights #socialjustice
#WorldRefugeeDay Refugee Day is a day of shame and of universal condemnation of the wars that are driven by profit and greed for natural resources, Nandita Haksar writes.
World Refugee Day: Behind the statistics and the lies, stories of unbearable human anguish
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How do domestic relations within the genders affect women's participation in the economy. Read what Dr. Varsha Pillai has to say about the need for couple equity in closing the Gender Gap in India. "If we were to take a leaf out of Goldin’s work, what India truly needs is “couple equity”, where domestic household work and child rearing assumes a shared responsibility among couples. In her research Goldin termed certain jobs as ‘greedy jobs’ because these jobs offered more money for long hours, which meant that such jobs implicitly make the workers focus on either their family or career." #gendergap #genderjustice #genderattheworkplace #coupleequity #genderpaygap #socialjustice #socialimpact
The recently released Global Gender Gap Index by the World Economic Forum starkly reminded us that Indian women earn only Rs 40 for every Rs 100 earned by men. https://lnkd.in/dedqApFd #genderpaygap #globalgenderpay #coupleequity #worldeconomicforum
India Needs Couple Equity To Fix Its Gender Pay Gap
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As traditional forms of funding become obsolete, emergent sources of funding have transformed the funding landscape for NGOS. In this article, Ingrid Srinath asks"Where then, might the vast majority of India’s NGOs, especially those that work on longer-term, system-changing, community-led impacts find the means to survive? Where might social innovations like those that transformed policy in the 2000s find incubation? What of policy research, independent media and legal activism? A handful of organisations with the requisite knowledge and skills might find support from enlightened international or domestic funders who have evolved to flexible, long-term, trust-based models that prioritise community leadership and systems-changing strategies." Read more here, https://lnkd.in/gTMpj9qy What do you think? How can we make "retail" fundraising more efficient? comment below. #funding #impactassessment #socialimpact #fundraising #communityledimpact #socialjustice #systemschange
How do India’s #NGOs survive in today’s funding environment? My article in Deccan Herald today. #nonprofits #fundraising #philanthropy
Adapt or perish: NGOs struggle to survive
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