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Top tips on building a career in aid and development

Aid World, Review

The year is 2020 and people are looking for new jobs and new ways to follow their passion to reality while making it fun. I thought I shall (re)start my writing by sharing some insights I have gathered while being involved

Too Scared to Dive into Data

Research

Putting everything that is "life" aside I look at my PhD journey, the quest for finding answers. Answers to a burning question, or too many burning questions. That's probably how every PhD journey is like. Or maybe not. To each

A conversation on dignity at a refugee home

Research

Human dignity is a very simplistic term that appears in almost very often in discussions around humanity or in day-to-day life. However, when we look at the governments and how our nation states endorse it as an important value for

We need plastic bans in villages to protect our agricultural infrastructure

Fieldwork, Research

During one of my fieldwork visits last year, I was doing a daylong interactive discussion with NGO staff and community representatives. At some point we had a tea break, and the tea arrived in plastic cups. Obviously, I was not

TEDxShekhavati - Bhawri Devi & Mishri Devi - The Illiterate Entrepreneurs

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One of the privileges I have had while working at GDS was working with these women farmers as part of our project in Rajasthan. So when Masarat and I met, and she told me about her plans to do another

PowerCutsIN: A video interview I did in Karcha Village

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(originally posted on the PowerCutsIN Blog) September 16, 2011: This is the house of Mr. Sukhdev from Karcha Village, Banda, Uttar Pradesh where I had a chance to visit during one of my work visits. In this report we hear Sukhdev highlight the

Celebrating the Rural Spirit - TEDxShekhavati 2011: Think Ahead

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the rural spirit is free. the urban is not. the rural tongue says things that the urban tongue cannot. - Quote from Masarat Daud-Jamadar's blog This quote caught my eyes the first time I read this and since then have been embedded

Sahana's Response to Bihar Floods

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The Sahana team is currently working on setting up custom deployments as per the requirements specific for the Bihar floods. Currently, we are working on Translating Sahana to Hindi, that could be used in the deployment. As you might have

Uttarakhand Government's Operation Connect and How can you help!

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As a part of the ongoing efforts by the government, the task of reaching out to families seeking information about their relatives has been on top priority by the government officials. I was amazed at the government's quick deployment of

What do you need the most? Knowledge and Education.

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Its been over an year now since I started working at, what they say, grassroots level on projects around livelihoods in Rural India. Well mostly UP and then Bihar, Rajasthan. When I look back at my very first interaction with

Questioning technology and its implementation

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Reflecting on some of my past projects, and trying to study the thought process of some of the projects that I have worked on, I thought of laying out some questions which can act as a set of "tips" for my