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Advocacy · 2026–27
Hayek's ideas, in comics
Comics that turn the main ideas of Friedrich Hayek into stories anyone can follow, so his thinking on freedom, knowledge and the limits of planning reaches readers far beyond universities.
Impact assessment · 2026
Resilient Lanka: a baseline for an island facing the tide
A baseline study of a 23-family island in Kochi's backwaters, so a community plan against tidal flooding can be designed with the people who live there and its results measured.
Advocacy · 2026
Nayadrishti Podcast
A weekly Malayalam podcast on policy, economics and society, from Kerala's economy and power crisis to the 1991 reforms.
Capacity building · 2026
A public policy workshop at Bharata Mata College
A three-hour workshop for about 50 students on the fundamentals of public policy, seen through the lenses of state, market and society.
Research and consultancy · 2026
Perception study of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale
What does India's largest contemporary art festival mean for the people around it? A study of visitors, residents, business owners and vendors.
Capacity building · 2026
Nalla Swasam: air pollution awareness in Kollam
An air pollution awareness campaign across Kollam, with sessions for schools, colleges, resident welfare associations and community groups.
Capacity building · 2026
Making it count: a session on impact evaluation at CUSAT
How do we know an intervention is actually creating impact? A session for management students on Theory of Change, monitoring and evaluation.
Impact assessment · 2025–26
Evaluating TinkerHub's maker programmes
Impact evaluations for TinkerHub, Kerala's creator community for students, using control groups to see what its programmes change, including a 13-point jump in women's confidence with technology after TinkHerHack.
Capacity building · 2025–26
Career Launcher bootcamps
Our three-hour career workshops, grown into an immersive bootcamp. In the pilots, students' interview skills and confidence rose by a net 56%.
Advocacy · 2025–26
Policy simulation game: there are only trade-offs
A role-play game in which stakeholder groups bargain over a policy and find that every win costs something. Played at Make for Justice, the Multispecies Hackathon and YDF KRIA.
Research and consultancy · 2025–26
A public policy module, and the start of Nayaneethi Commons
With support from Emergent Ventures, we developed a public policy module and an open-source portal for sharing public policy knowledge. Nayaneethi Commons grew out of it.
Project management · 2025
Education for Ecological Transformation
Managing a climate education programme in four Kerala schools, from training facilitators to running the classroom sessions.
Research and consultancy · 2025
Perception study of the 24×7 ON Courts, Kollam
How do litigants and advocates find a court that runs online, round the clock? An independent study of the 24×7 ON Courts pilot.
Advocacy · 2025
Society Solves: a game to unlock agency
Players act as policymakers fixing problems in a tribal hamlet, then discover that the people who live there know far more than any planner.
Capacity building · 2024–25
DISHA career launcher workshops
Career readiness workshops that have reached more than 5,000 students in over 85 rural colleges in Kerala.
Project management · 2024–25
Project Ashakiran: towards a zero-waste panchayat
Running a zero-waste programme for more than 770 school students, delivered in Tamil by local trainers.
Impact assessment · 2024–25
Impact evaluation of the S.L.A.T.E Kunnathunad education project
Evaluating an education programme that reached over 12,000 students in 21 government schools, to guide its second phase.
Research and consultancy · 2024–25
From filler to specialty: a roadmap for Wayanad Robusta
A market study and business development plan to position Wayanad's coffee, grown by over 2,000 tribal and marginal farmers, as a high-value specialty coffee.
Capacity building · 2024–25
Fundamentals of Public Policy certification course
A 33-hour course building a community of young public policy thinkers in Kerala. Two batches, 45 graduates so far.
Capacity building · 2024
Volunteer training for the THRIVE project
Preparing college volunteers to mentor tribal students in Kerala's Model Residential Schools.
Research and consultancy · 2024
Learning assessment of tribal students, MRS Malampuzha
Why do tribal students drop out after school? A learning and aspiration survey at a residential school for Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups found the answer starts early.
Impact assessment · 2024
Impact evaluation of the S.L.A.T.E–Rotary programme at GRFTVHSS, Thevara
Evaluating five learning interventions for 150 students at a government fisheries school, using the OECD DAC criteria.
Capacity building · 2024
Training Anganwadi teachers and learning centre facilitators, Attappady
Training for more than 150 Anganwadi teachers and the facilitators of 43 community learning centres, to close learning gaps early.
Impact assessment · 2024
Impact assessment of Prachodhan's work in Majuli and Lakhimpur
Showing funders far from Assam what Prachodhan Development Services' programmes have achieved on the ground.
Research and consultancy · 2024
Market study of pepper and turmeric, Wayanad
A market study to help close to 200 tribal and marginal spice farmers earn more from their pepper and turmeric.
Research and consultancy · 2024
Skill gap study, Majuli and Lakhimpur
What skills, education and livelihoods do people in two Assam districts need? A study to shape Prachodhan's next interventions.
Research and consultancy · 2024
Need assessment for livelihood projects, rural Ernakulam
A field study that turned farmers' own ideas into 20 project proposals for climate-resilient farming and livelihoods.
Advocacy
Nayadrishti, India's first bilingual public policy newsletter
A fortnightly newsletter in English and Malayalam that takes public policy debates out of seminar rooms and into public view.
Advocacy
Padayatra: a public policy journey, in comics
A comic series on the ideas behind public policy. Chapter 1, Trade-offs, follows a student leader who learns that every policy win comes with a compromise.
Research and consultancy
Strategy and consultancy for S.L.A.T.E
Our first client: strategy, partnerships, fundraising and programme design for S.L.A.T.E's work on Education for Sustainable Development.
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