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Transform Rural India
Annual Report 2022-23

Chairperson biggest societal chasm in This is the foundation for a approach while daunting is Our engagement with citizen-first programmes. We are grateful to our

We remain deeply committed
crucial to development
quality of life that is healthy,
partners from the civil society,
government got further
India today is the rural-urban
Message divide. It is further intensified well-nourished, educated and because India is both poor deepened with ‘Design for to connecting with rural academia, and donors to
validate our efforts. You make
by the intersectionality of
communities and engaging
economically productive.
and young. The state capacity
Public Leadership’ program
with wider society. Through
impacts the lives of the poor
it possible to challenge the
co-developed and offered
economy, gender, caste; this
divide is what TRI seeks to What does Regenerative disproportionately. It is jointly with Capacity Building our initiatives, Village Square, dominant narrative on rural
address. Our shared quest is Development look like on constitutionally mandated to Commission; Indian Institute Development Intelligence escape as we seek to build
ensuring opportunities for all. the ground? ensure social and economic of Public Administration in Unit, and Public Policy in flourishing villages.
It is about building a strong justice. Our engagement with partnership with Harvard Action Fellowship; we
To our Friends, This year, our focus was on Our purpose, or why we do and resilient gender-just the government is shaped by University's Design Lab. The continue to engage with the
well-wishers institutional strengthening - what we do, is to democratise community, with voice, action, our faith in the democratic program offered to senior urban young, policy framers
and Whew! building systems and development. Because India’s and leadership in compact between citizens officials in the Union Ministries and the well-endowed to
share our insights and bring
future and ambitions rest on
of Agriculture, Labour &
and state. On the other hand,
stakeholders 2022-23 was a whirlwind processes, consolidating how well transformation of development governance. It markets are grounds for Employment, Skill issues from and of those on
year.
initiatives, and defining our
in transforming narrative. As we grow we will opportunities in rural happens. means investing in local expression of talent, energy, Development and Enterprises the margins. We believe this is
“rural” Your support and retain our start-up energy and capacities, local institutions, innovation or as Joseph and Fisheries included a sprint a critical long-term bet on
local businesses, and
expectations drove us to yearning for challenges. The How of democratised entrepreneurs to meet their Schumpeter puts “creative on design frameworks to building a society with
constantly better ourselves development aspirations and spur destruction”. We expanded explore de-silofication within opportunities for all.
and deliver results - This report details our hits and Today, most of the accepted economic growth. It means our work in the employability the government with
expanding opportunities for misses, and our learnings over evidence on impact is through investing in infrastructure and and entrepreneurship space,
rural India. the last year. Apart from the arrowed interventions, silver public services that provide specifically targeted at rural
progress, we would also like to bullets, sectoral programs. At basic needs. It involves youth.
share what TRI is planning, a TRI we believe the building partnerships with the
peek into the pivots for the transformation of ‘languishing private ecosystem for Last year we got an
coming year. localities’ into ‘flourishing innovation and growth. opportunity with Union and
localities’ can only happen State Ministries of Panchayati
We are often asked “What do through Regenerative TRI’s realisation and Raj and Rural Development to
you do?” A reasonable question Development. Evidence and distillation of working contribute our learning and
given the number of things we experiences of organised approach to this not so ‘secret model of synergistic
do (sometimes beyond our development efforts of last 76 sauce’ for development gives framework of village
starting capacity and years in India and global best us the required confidence. development planning and
competency). We hope this practices inter alia affirm We could not have done this implementation from the
report sheds some clarity on development needs to be: without your continuing trust “locality development” work
this question and how we 1. Localised (where people in us. in Deepening Democracy and
address the competency. We live) Mission Antyodaya projects.
welcome all feedback on what Recent developments in the These learnings were put
more (or less) you would have 2. Self-determined and political economy provide together as the ‘Advanced
liked for us to do, reflect and self-driven by local many tailwinds to a whole of Programme on Locality
learn. leadership and their society approach with the Development’ a joint offering
aspirations (metis and skin interplay of Bazaar, Samaaj with the Development

While we are learning to define in the game) and Sarkaar, in the many Management Institute for
our What, a more pressing 3. Integrated approach of sessions at the India Rural government officials leading
question that needs articulation Samaaj (community), Colloquy 2022 thought Gram Panchayat
is our Why. If we look beyond Sarkaar (government) and leaders validated this Development in States and
subjective morality, justice, Bazaar (markets). premise. This trifocal Districts.
inequality; the fact is that the

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