Capacity Development

<p>Achieving social transformation is a challenging task. It requires the change of behaviour, mindsets, and trusted practices, which are sometimes hard to let go of. While technological innovations and advancements are often implemented top-down without cultural adaptations, social innovations are complex and do not follow market mechanisms to diffuse among a larger population. Let’s say, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>To deliberate on the possible way forward to achieve the ambitious and inclusive 2030 agenda and reflect on opportunities to integrate efforts to meet these aspirations, 4th Wheel undertook a workshop on &#8220;Achieving SDGs in India&#8217;. We believe that each one of us comes with a set of valuable experiences and knowledge of the development [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The third break-out session, which is part of Ambuja Cement Foundation’s event on World Water Day 2017, puts building capacities for water conservation at the centre of discussion. Considering that India sustains nearly 17 percent of the world’s population but is endowed with just four percent of global water resources, emphasizes the urgent call for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>India’s water stress is a recurrent thread to urban and rural areas across the country. Increased water demand, climate change vulnerability, and pollution of water quality from both the agricultural as well as the domestic and industrial sectors put pressure on the scarce resources the country can rely on. On top of that, water availability [&hellip;]</p>

<p>To deliberate on the possible way forward to achieve the ambitious and inclusive 2030 Agenda and reflect on opportunities to integrate efforts to meet these aspirations, 4th Wheel has launched a workshop series on ‘Achieving the SDGs in India’.   Kicking off the event series on 26th November 2016, 4th Wheel, with support from the Swedish [&hellip;]</p>

<p>To commemorate World Water Day 2017, Ambuja Cement Foundation joins hands with 4th Wheel Social Impact (4WSI) to host a participatory dialogue on “Co-creating water-positive communities”. As part of the event, we are facilitating three break-out sessions on water-related topics and making use of innovative tools and techniques. The objective of these workshop sessions is to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Water is highly essential to all three dimensions of sustainability, i.e. social, economic, and environmental. It is interlinked to crucial aspects of society, such as food, health, and renewable energies. However, it is often overlooked or taken for granted and not explored to a satisfying extent. The UN Secretary General has stressed the importance of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We just got back from this year’s Development Dialogues, one of India’s most influential and popular social entrepreneurship conferences, hosted by the Deshpande Foundation in Hubli. ‘Scaling effectively’ was the theme of the conference and more than 500 delegates from across the development sector- global and national, attended the conference. The day and a half proceedings [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Cross-sector partnerships are the ‘development approach of our time’. Multi-stakeholder partnerships are expected to play an increasingly important role in the implementation of the 2030 Development Agenda, which has 17 inter-linked and universal Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at its core. These partnerships between Governments, NGOs, Corporates and multilateral organisations help to pool core competencies, share [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have paved the way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that the world will strive to achieve over the next fifteen years (2015-2030). Much has been accomplished already, but a key criticism of the MDGs was that there was insufficient attention paid to generating profound data to measure development progress. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The social development sector today is seeing a global shift towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the global development agenda developed by the United Nations. Contextualizing the SDGs Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, the 17 SDGs with 169 associated targets depict a [&hellip;]</p>