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Transform Rural India
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Annual Report 2022-23




          Good or bad governments can        �•  Policies, programs, and        Nudge Units working within                       Community Action                   opportunities. Implementation       necessary and sufficient
          profoundly impact the lives of        operating guidelines that       Government Departments                           Labs                               with women collectives              conditioned outlined for
          the poorest and most                  enable service delivery         and Programmes                                                                      embedded within public              probable large-scale
          vulnerable. Public policy                                             Nudge Units work with the                        Praxis way to Prototyping          lends to bringing gender-           adoption. The ultimate
          shapes the role and scope of       This must be complemented by       government to improve public                     Solutions for Stranded India       intentionality and                  objective of crafting solutions
          government in improving            the activation of citizen          system delivery and help the                     and Evidence to Policy             opportunities for informing         is of ‘handing over to the
          society and delivering goods       mechanisms on the demand           poor. They use innovation, data                                                     national policies and               mainframe’, meaning
          and services. The past decade      and governance side. Our           science, and evidence-based                      The Community Action Labs,         replication.                        absorption the state or market
          and a half has seen a              commitment to continuity and       practices to drive solutions.                    are Live Labs developing                                               within the existing rural
          remarkable shift in the delivery   confidence in our abilities,        They bring best practices,                       working solutions which are        Focus of Community Action           administrative and
          of public services and welfare.    along with our domain              feedback loops, and                              tested for impact and specific      Labs is active experimentation      governance structure;
          This shift has resulted in a "new   expertise, purposeful             evaluations to improve                           elements of scale-readiness. In    for prototyping/solutioning,        Evidence to Policy is thus
          public service and welfare         connection, and                    implementation.                                  the Action Pilots; our teams       implement ideas on-ground           pivotal to the design of all
          architecture" that is supported    performance-driven approach,                                                        support institutional capacities   such that models                    actions in Community Action
          by ground-breaking legislative     aligns with the national will and   In 2022-23, we continued our                    of women collectives (and          of-processes, systems even          Labs.
          acts that enshrine                 urgency to transform lives. We     PPiA engagement with rigour,                     other community                    programs so that prototypes
          socio-economic entitlements        recognize our limitations as a     learning in the process and                      organisations); Panchayats to      could be crystallized from the
          as legally enforceable rights.     non-state actor, but this has      contributing to the design and                   ensure better healthcare,          learning by doing. With scale
          The government has also            uniquely positioned us in a        delivery of public programs.                     nutrition, education, access       being the underlying
          implemented a public-funded        constructive and positive                                                           entitlements, economic             principle- the experiments are
          digital infrastructure that allows   framing of TRI's Public Policy in                                                 development. Apart from near       not micro-experiments but               Scan to watch
          it to connect with individual      Action engagement.                                                                  term-results, this strengthens     start atleast at a ‘block’ level.
          citizens. Partnership with the                                                                                         systemic pathways of resilience    Rigorous evidence needs to
          state is crucial for bringing                                                                                          on Quality of Life and             be generated on the efficacy              Scan to watch
          investments to struggling                                                                                              place-based economic               of the models with the
          areas. PPiA practice unlocks
          this opportunity by working
          with the government in
          conceptualization, design,
          rollout, monitoring, and
          evidence-based adaptive
          management of innovative
          processes while promoting
          learning.                              At TRI, we strive             The need of the hour of
                                                 towards forging               engaging with public
          The TRI Way centres around the         solution pathways             systems is to provide
          "activation of public services" as     with the goal of              contexualised solutions
          the primary driver for                 creating synergy              that can ensure last mile
          transforming villages in India.        between public                delivery of public
                                                 policies and change           programmes, so that
          Our hypothesis is that the             catalysis which leads         nobody is left behind. At
          successful and effective                to fostering inclusive        TRI, we look at Public
          delivery of government services        Public Policy in              Policy from an Action Lens
          at the grassroots relies on            Action.                       as we continually strive to
          several factors.                                                     support the public
                                                                               administration with
          �•  Intermediation through             Md. Karimuddin Malik          opportune solutions to
            political mandate
                                                 Associate                     challenges directly from
          �•  Capacity and                       Director-Jharkhand            the community.
            purpose-connect of frontline
            bureaucracy                                                        Shrish Kalyani
                                                                               Associate
          �•  Proactive performance
            demand and support from                                            Director-Chhattisgarh
            supervisory bureaucracy



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