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Policy Brief December 21, 2021

Policy Brief: Imperative for the civil society and local governments to collaborate post COVID-19

By Isalyne Gennaro, Tvesha Sippy & Anushka Bhansali

During the pandemic, CSOs have been instrumental in ensuring access to basic services.

Paper December 21, 2021

Investigating Collaborative Governance in India’s Urban Slums

By Isalyne Gennaro, Tvesha Sippy, Anushka Bhansali, Kadambari Shah & Sneha P

The authors explore the vulnerabilities of urban slums in India in a COVID-19 context

Paper December 16, 2021

Financing Models for Digital Ecosystems

By Rahul Matthan, Prakhar Misra & Harshita Agrawal

This paper explores various financing models for the digital ecosystem within the Indian setup.

Blog November 23, 2021

Traffic Woes and Recovery Blues!

By Tvesha Sippy & Priya Vedavalli

An effective traffic enforcement system is a crucial input for furthering respect for the rule of law among citizens.

Op-ed November 6, 2021

On COVID-19 vaccination, don’t be complacent

By Sofia Imad & Anushka Bhansali

Vaccine demand can be generated through the development of targeted action plans addressing both access issues and hesitancy. With only a third of the eligible population fully vaccinated, we don’t have the luxury of time

Blog November 1, 2021

Civil Society Shouldn’t Be a Substitute for the State’s Lack of Data Capacity

By Harsh Vardhan Pachisia

As a lesson from this pandemic, efforts need to be undertaken by the government to strengthen its primary role in the data pipeline— proper and timely distribution of data.

Journal Article October 19, 2021

Open Data a Critical Tool for Crises: Can India Make Better Use of it?

By Sam Neufeld & Sridhar Ganapathy

Extensive efforts to provide the foundational policies and environment for open data to thrive need to be supported by substantial reform to effectively leverage open data for time-sensitive functions like disaster relief.

Op-ed October 11, 2021

Opinion | PMAY’s subsidy burden will become unmanageable. Govt must look at the PPP model

By , Anushka Bhansali & Vibhav Mariwala

PMAY is an excellent first step to put mechanisms in place for directly reaching the beneficiaries but it has to evolve so it stays relevant and can be scaled up going ahead.

Journal Article October 5, 2021

Representative estimates of COVID-19 infection fatality rates from four locations in India: cross-sectional study

By Rebecca Cai, Paul Novosad, Vaidehi Tandel, Sam Asher & Dr. Anup Malani

In this paper, the authors estimate age-and gender-specific mortality risk among all SARS-CoV-2 infections in four settings in India, and compare age trends in mortality with similar estimates in high-income countries

Paper September 27, 2021

Behaviour change communication strategy for COVID-19 vaccine acceptance

By , Shilpa Rao, Sofia Imad & Anushka Bhansali

This vaccine acceptance campaign strategic document outlines our initial research findings, how our findings translated into a communication strategy with a strong identity, messaging matrix, segmentation and a final design look and feel

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