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Transform Rural India
                                                                                              Annual Report 2022-23






 Our Commitment  colleagues, it has been a big source of energy.
 In the past, we had shared highlights from the first
 Prosperous Rural India of Equal   comprehensive Quinquennial Review, with
 feedback from the community, partners,
 Opportunity and Dignity  colleagues, donors, and stakeholders. This
 with interventions focused on languishing   exercise contributed to the framing of the TRI
 localities.  Strategy 2025. In the reporting year, we pivoted
 in-here with organisational changes and
 Why we believe in the TRI Way  out-there i.e. development engagement.
 Because it works!
 We are constantly attuned to the dynamic
 The effectiveness of our approach has been   changes in society, the political economy, and the
 validated by independent assessments. As   aspirations of communities. As a learning
 we grow, we will continue to gather more   organisation seeking societal transformation, we   Impact Pathways
 evidence of its success.  respond to these opportunities for change. This
 year, we began an exercise to better understand
 When we started, we identified a reporting   the differentiating essence of our "development   Altering Roles & Relationships  Accelerating
 gap among development organisations and   engagement" through discussions with various   Samaj-Sarkar-Bazaar  Results-On-Ground
 decided to prioritise results reporting. We   stakeholders. We intend to implement the   collaboratives/partnerships     Enhanced access to
 established a baseline in all field locations and   recommendations in 2023-24.  We hope that the      Trust building and changing   services constituting a
 completed an annual dipstick reporting in our   coming year will define TRI's work of integrated   perspectives  quality life experience
 first operational year, which was promising   village development focused on accelerating      Introducing new actors     Improved infrastructure   Enhanced Well-Being
 and validated our Theory of Change.  intergenerational mobility. This will have an   private & community  and Sense of Self
 impact on multi-sector dimensions of Quality of            Improved Practices         Enhanced social progress
 Our engagement validation has been further   Life through locality compacts (of community   contemporary scientific   outcomes and improved
 reinforced by third-party endline   institutions and local governance institutions)   Augmenting Capacities  practices  ability, autonomy and
                                                                                       belongingness
 assessments, both qualitative and   platform, supported by effective public system      Implementation and policy spaces
 quantitative, in two of our larger projects.  delivery and engaged local markets.     Embedded Technical Assistance   Prosperity
 In most grant-funded projects, typically      Mullti-Layered Interventions Pivoting System Levers  via Nudge Units/PPIA Fellows  Health & Nutrition
 three-year durations, we have met our   Independent assessment show gains   Changing Rules of the   Education
 deliverables. Unfortunately, due to limited   on adoption of IYCF practices - 3 ANC   Game  WASH
 resources, we were unable to continue with   visits and breastfeeding for 6 months,   Instituting Structures & Processes     New norms established   Gender
 third-party annual results reporting                       Non-discriminatory-
 food diversity, use of toilets; access      Co-management, information and   around class, caste   Grassroots Governance
 The progress made in the first set of pilots   to health & nutrition services, marked   power sharing  gender
 from 2016-2020 validates this premise.   increase in student attendance,   Ideation-design-delivery-learning     New policies and
 Independent assessment shows substantive      Optimizing existing mechanisms   protocols Collaborative,
 gains in the adoption of IYCF practices, food   increased teacher’s presence in   and resources  co-equal and inclusive
 diversity, use of toilets, access to health and   schools, improvements on retention
 nutrition services, and improvement in   and transition; Productivity and   Altered System  Results  Outcomes
 learning outcomes. Productivity and income   income gains 37% increase in HHs
 gains reveal an encouraging shift in the
 proportion of households in the bottom   with gross annual income greater
 quintile and top quintile.   than INR 1,00,000.  The immediate outcomes on   Nudge Units, placed in Districts,   supporting pathways through
 [Sambodhi Evaluation of PRIDE   “Regenerative Development”   State, National Government is   innovations in processes,
 The resonance of stakeholders, across the
 community and public agencies, has been   Project, PRADAN-tri project]  can be attained through a   central to developing   leveraging data sciences,
 affirming. As the first point of contact for   Whole of Society Approach   meaningful scalable prototypes.   mandate sharpening, strategy
          (Bazaar, Samaaj, Sarkaar) with     Public system delivery is backed    and implementation
          the synergy of the community,      by our experience in the power      methodologies, bringing best
          public and market                  of engaged and responsive           practices, evidence-based
          interventions. Community           government to address               practices, internal feedback
 Productivity and income gains 37% increase in HHs with   Action Labs are places for   problems of poor, co-creating   loops and evaluations.
          active experiemention and          with counterparts to surface and
 gross annual income greater than INR 1,00,000.  prototyping drawing support of   drive their own solutions and



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