By Accountability Initiative 04 Mar 2016
Budget Briefs 2016: State of Social Sector Spending in India
Every year, in the run up to the Union Government budget, Accountability In
The PAISA Story
By T.R. Raghunandan 25 Feb 2016
‘Let’s meet for lunch’. A decade back, whenever I heard that voice over
Superheroes in school uniforms
By Vincy Davis 05 Feb 2016
“Didi, who’s your favourite super hero?” asked the six year old as he playe
Crafting Policy, the V. Ramachandran Style
By T.R. Raghunandan 19 Dec 2015
Working with the Expert Group on Participatory Planning chaired by Mr. V.
A Role Model Slips Away
By T.R. Raghunandan 08 Dec 2015
It was at a conference in Kerala, probably in 2003 or so, that I first me
The Wicked Problem of Global Warming
By T.R. Raghunandan 24 Nov 2015
Over the last four, somewhat intermittent blogs, I had detailed the initi
How Conservation Payments Ought to be Used
By T.R. Raghunandan 09 Nov 2015
As detailed in last week’s blog, the report on ‘High Conservation Value F
Funding for forest protection – peeping behind the Fourteent...
By T.R. Raghunandan 30 Oct 2015
One good feature of the way India’s Finance Commissions go about their jobs
Functional Assignment: Some (more) Thoughts on the Evolving...
By Vincy Davis 20 Oct 2015
(This is part 2 of 2 entries on Functional Assignment by the same author.)
Functional Assignment: Some Thoughts on the Evolving Subject
By Vincy Davis 19 Oct 2015
Early in September I attended a workshop on Functional Assignment (FA) led
Funding environmental services; fundamental questions or pro...
By T.R. Raghunandan 09 Oct 2015
My apologies for a break from my weekly blog. After five weeks of skippin
How data can mislead in analysing social policy
By Avani Kapur 01 Sep 2015
India needs a transformation in how data is measured and analysed to form p
Wicked problems; financing environmental services
By T.R. Raghunandan 31 Aug 2015
‘Just letting you know, Raghu’, said my friend, a passionate advocate of
Chhattisgarh Survey- Observations from the field
By Nilanjan Chaudhuri 24 Aug 2015
Accountability Initiative (AI) has finished the field work for Chhattisgarh
Imbibing Leadership skills through Institutional Reforms and...
By T.R. Raghunandan 17 Aug 2015
The coming years calls for adopting the new age strategies of bridging lead
Teachers' Strike and the Learning Problem
By Ashish Ranjan 11 Aug 2015
In the month of April and May 2015, there was hardly any academic work happ
Can the IAS learn Bridging and Adaptive Leadership?
By T.R. Raghunandan 06 Aug 2015
First and foremost, the IAS needs to consciously work on curbing swollen he
Bridging Leadership and the Civil Servant
By T.R. Raghunandan 31 Jul 2015
While some aspects of dysfunctionality within the government system have
Making the case for expanding Social Security Pensions: Stat...
By Anindita Adhikari 15 May 2015
The country has seen one of the most impressive mobilisations in recent tim
The Hungry Tide: Billions Spent and Millions Still Malnouris...
By Avani Kapur 19 Feb 2010
The 16th of October was World Food Day– a day to take the pled
Accountability and the budget: Tracking where your money goe...
By Vincy Davis 04 Feb 2010
We’ve been in Bhojpur, Bihar for some days now, surveying several individua
