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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

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

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

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.

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

I can safely say that the journey from that initial jolt of culture shock that one experiences from stepping on the field for that very first time, to the final peace that a researcher makes with the fact, that obstacles are an intrinsic part of fieldwork is neither long, nor arduous when taken with the

Participating in fieldwork was very exciting for me. Not only because I got to know another part of Gujarat and got insights into the living and working conditions in the Special Economic Zone of Mundra, but also because I see this as a complementary part of my work at 4th wheel. Being in an