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Transform Rural India
Rural Media Fellowship of
Village Square
This year multiple
initiatives sought
stakeholders. Engagement
with youth drew formal
support through an
advisory committee was
formed with representation
from CSOs, academia, and
youth.
Rural Media Fellowship was
launched with 10 young,
talented individuals from
various parts of India joining
the first cohort, mentored by
veteran journalist Ruben
Banerjee. Fellows have
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such stories have been
published.
The Village Square Internship
program has also received
good response and feedback
from students and the CSO
community. This year
internships were offered to 38
students with 8 CSOs.
(https://www.villagesquare.in
/lessons-in-a-real-world-envi
ronment-during-an-internship
/). Two rural immersion
sessions have been organised
(Breaking Biases, Building
Bonds). Engagement on the
upstream side with the CSO
community was done through
10 writeshops with 170+
participants on various topics
such as health, education,
livelihoods, advocacy, and
women's empowerment.
We have built trust with our
partners through outreach
and partnerships. We are
focusing on academic
partnerships to engage with
VS content and co-host
seminars and webinars with
media and journalism schools
on “Journalism and Rural
Development.” 6 academic
partnerships have already
been forged.
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Annual Report 2022-23
Data Intelligence Unit (DIU)
A joint initiative of TRI and
Sambodhi, this initiative
provides quality data and
analytics to stimulate
action among stakeholders
in the development of rural
India. A data-driven
approach is essential to
reduce opacity and
empower government and
non-government actors to
take on the complex process
of transformational
development for rural India.
DIU collects, analyses, and
reports data through the use of
India’s statistical infrastructure
and mixed-methods research
to create evidence for rural
development. It leverages
partners and stakeholders who
will learn, adapt and scale
evidence-based approaches.
DIU also hosts the Rural
ThinkInsight Series which is a
monthly survey series that
provides data-driven content and data sharing protocols to DIU has also supported the
and analytics with discussion
and conversation with thought ensure compatibility and Ministry in building the first ever
leaders on themes central to integration of data sets. Rural Quality of Life Index
rural development and policy. It co-creates monthly and which monitors 69 indicators
across 9 pillars, including
Insights are collected from annual reports based on the agriculture, health & nutrition,
Sambodhi’s longitudinal panel reach (physical) and utilisation education, gender, economic
of 7,500-8,000 respondents. (financial) data from monthly ability and employability,
Some previous series include progress tracks, providing governance, social security,
Rural Downtime Survey, Rural dynamic dashboards. These and sustainability and climate
Entrepreneurship survey, provide real-time insights and resilience. The dashboard ranks
Consumer Sentiment Report, visualisations of the data for all rural districts of India at a
Rural India Food Plate Survey, academia, development think state and national level.
and Marginal Farmer Survey. tanks, and reputed researchers.
DIU has launched the Data for
DIU has established the The DIU team has worked Policy Fellowship, placing
Technical Support Unit (TSU) of closely with Ministry's Mission fellows in Jharkhand,
the Statistics Division of the Antyodaya Survey, which is one Chhattisgarh, and with MoRD.
Ministry of Rural Development. of the largest surveys of the
It has several objectives and Government of India. We are
supports the Ministry on data working with NIRDPR to roll out
collection methods, data to the survey across India. Scan to check out
formats, data storage systems,
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