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ANNUAL REPORT 2023-24 TRANSFORM RURAL INDIA

Public Policy in Action: Action Pathways

Augmenting Public Service
Capacity as a Lever of Intermediation
Development Change
Supply side through
1. Capacity and purpose-connect of frontline National State and
TRI’s Public Policy in Action (PPiA) practice bureaucracy Level District Design development and designing a compelling
is one of our three practices that works in 2. Proactive performance of supervisory at Units Level narrative to galvanise action on a given mandate
Units
tandem in our effort to transform rural sub-district and district levels, enabled through state Supporting review of how things are working now,
India. The objective of the PPiA practice is and federal policies, programmes and operating or the “as is” situation, surface pivot and leverage
to enhance public service capacity to drive guidelines by more local level understandings Engage with multiple Support state-level action steps points from the lens of community
developmental changes, ensure citizen Demand and governance side through activation of ministries (MoRD, MoPR, departments such as well-being, best and emerging frontier practices
Rural Livelihood
MoAFW, MHA) to provide
rights, improve welfare scheme delivery citizen mechanisms like local governance institutions strategic support and Missions, MGNREGS, with intent arrive at a better “to be” situation
and foster governance-integration among or CBOs like Women Self Help Groups, cooperatives, technical assistance for Panchayati Raj, Tribal Programme design, guidelines; and how-to-do
public, community and market institutions. subject specific collectives like forest protection, various initiatives, Welfare, Health, guides focused on efficacious frontline delivery, a
The government plays a role in many areas education, health etc. that shape local demands, significant of which are Education, Women and set of activities to get you from ‘aspiration” or the
the Lakhpati Didi
Child Development,
takes responsibilities for action in their domains,
of well-being and trying to help people leverage their collective powers to demand integrity, Initiative under the Industries and more current “as is” to the proposed “to be”
improve their lives. This is more so in the adequacy of services National Rural with strategic policy Facilitate, support and build capacities to embed
lives of poor communities and in rural Livelihoods Mission, and programme new systems, processes, tools and ways of working
areas. We understand the “activation of Normative societal shifts through creatively Special Central support. These
engagements, which
Assistance to Left Wing
government services” is one of the most main-framing justice-intentional mechanisms in Extremism, vary depending on the Demonstrate and build immersion sites,
public programmes (eg. Gender intentionality in
important levers in the Indian context to MGNREGS) and conscious intent in engagement) eg. Transformation of situation and the foregrounding our commitment and inspiration to
help create systems change, shifting from
transform India’s villages. Our approach in modern technology or new assets with women Aspirational Districts and counterpart “know-how” and “do-how” engagement to
working with government is to join ownership). Blocks Programmes, government units, “show-how” and then design “scale-how” within the
together constructively on that shared MGNREGS, Panchayats. broadly included: remit of the mandate and available resources.
purpose. With clarity on the government’s
mandate, we help bring insights, evidence
and experiences from community. PPiA units supporting different central ministries PPiA units supporting different State and District Administrations

Departments
MoRD-NRLM 1
RD-SRLM RD-MNREGS Panchayati Welfare Health Industry Home Planning Agriculture Employment, District District (State and
DMFT-
Labour &
Tribal
Sub Total
Raj
Units
MoRD--FDRVC 2 Jharkhand 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 Skills unit 13 District Unit)
Central Ministries MoPR 1 Chhattisgarh 1 1 1 1 2 7 13
1
23
1
MoAFW
Madhya
MHA 1 Pradesh 1 1 1 1 1 5 10
Uttar 1 1 6 8
Sub Total (National) 6 Pradesh
Others
(Bihar, 1 1 8 10
Maharastra
& BTR)

Scan to watch Total 5 3 2 2 4 1 2 1 1 1 2 39 58

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