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Scanning the policy landscape with active stakeholder mapping
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Understanding policy impact and proposing alternatives
In the ever changing policy landscape, we help clients visualise the implications of proposed legislation/regulation. We work with them to develop informed positions on key policy issues, find best practices from around the globe, and create policy alternatives that may be presented to law making agencies. |
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Building powerful messaging to engage with the audience
We help clients and partners build thought leadership by communicating effectively about things that matter. We design communications and advocacy strategies to leverage traditional and new media to bring focus to policy issues. We also create innovative outreach programs to build resonance with stakeholders. |
Opinion
Budget ODE oped
Filling the gaps in India’s digital push
Public Service Delivery, Tech, Budget
India has embarked on a unique journey of tech led service delivery and this is reinforced through commitments in the 2022 Union Budget. It is now critical to shift the focus to the ‘non-tech’ layers of our digital infrastructure, by prioritizing principles of data protection, universal access and accountability.
Gender responsive recovery
Covid-19: Prioritize gender-responsive recovery
Economy, Gender
This International Women’s Day is a reminder that we must strive for a gender-inclusive economic recovery and not lose the strides made in women’s empowerment in the last few decades on account of the pandemic.
Bridging the digital divide in education
Bridging the digital divide in education
Education, Tech
By connecting what already exists, the National Digital Educational Architecture (NDEAR) can reimagine the education ecosystem for deploying tailored EdTech solutions speedily, sustainably and at population scale.
Robust DPA
A robust Data Protection Authority can create a solid digital economy
Data Protection
The Parliament must take cognizance of the far-reaching impact of the Data Protection Law and lay the foundation of a robust institution that is transparent, competent, independent, predictable and not-overzealous in its rulemaking
Digital payments
Will India pay for RBI’s hurry?
Digital Payments
Even though RBI’s no-card-storage norms are well-intentioned, a hurried transition can end up disrupting digital payments in 2022, adversely affecting both customers as well as merchants.
Social registries
Social welfare delivery in the digital age
Open Digital Ecosystems
Social registries can help leverage technology to fix delivery gaps, payment leakages, coordination failures, and other inefficiencies that plague our current systems of welfare delivery.
ODE Skilling
Scaling up the ecosystem for job and skill seekers
Skilling, Open Digital Ecosystems
An open digital ecosystem that brings job seekers, employers, skills providers and government agencies can be implemented with ease, with a little help from government and technology.
Gender lens in data governance
Balancing privacy and agency: Data governance needs a gender lens
Gender, Tech Policy
As India moves towards an increasingly digital society, how privacy and data governance laws may impact women’s safety and agency on the internet should not come as an afterthought
Female voting block
The rise of the female voting block
Elections, Gender
More women are voting than before, and this rise in political agency could mean that their rights and issues are no longer an afterthought for policymakers.
NPD - too soon?
Non-personal data norms: Too much, too soon?
Tech policy
The rationale for government intervention seems unclear. Even if there are positive externalities to data, the proposed NPD framework may impose significant costs on the whole digital economy
Age gating - PDP
In children we must trust
TECH POLICY, AGE-GATING
India’s privacy law must balance the rights of children with online safety. The blanket requirement for parental consent for those aged below 18 years must make way for a graded approach along with a digital literacy curriculum.
Parliament oversight
Restoring the broken oversight mechanisms of Parliament
Parliament, Policymaking
Mandating scrutiny for every bill is not a big ask. It is necessary to uphold the quality of legislation. A strong committee system is probably the only way to ensure Parliament’s relevance in the law-making process.
Svamitva scheme
With design changes, the Svamitva scheme can be a game changer
Property Rights
By providing a Record of Rights (RoRs) to household owners in rural areas, the scheme attempts to create accurate land and property records, which can be pivotal in reducing property-related disputes and facilitating monetisation of assets.
WEE landscape IDR
A call to 'empower' Women Economic Empowerment policies
Gender
To make substantial strides in women’s economic empowerment, it is clear that a gender lens needs to be incorporated at every stage—from policy design to data collection for monitoring and evaluation.
Model Tenancy Act
How the Model Tenancy Act can benefit homeowners and tenants
Property Rights
While the Act is a much-needed reform for India’s housing sector, one hopes that states use this opportunity to unlock the economic value of vacant housing and increase access to good quality housing, for all demographics
Youth budget article
In Budget 2021, youth deserve more
Budget, Youth
India does not spend enough on its young people. If anything, the pandemic has highlighted the need to build the resilience of the youth and place their concerns at the centre stage of policy discussions.
Gig workers - gender lens
Social protection for gig workers through a gender lens
Gender, Labour policies
Placing undue financial costs on women’s employers is unlikely to contribute to labour market equality. The state must play a bigger role towards social security for women gig workers.
Fraudulent apps
Safeguarding the unsuspecting user from fraudulent apps
Tech Policy
The presence of fraudulent apps on app stores poses a grave threat to the burgeoning smartphone user community. But removing such apps is not an easy problem to solve
Non personal data - Print Policy Discussions
Unpacking Non Personal Data
Non Personal Data
In partnership with The Print and Network Capital, TQH organized a series of online discussions to deliberate on the proposed governance framework for non-personal data
Regulating Encryption
India’s Traceability Question
Regulating Encryption
Government interception rests upon an uneasy truce between the government/LEA, private companies and civil society activists
Skilling PMKVY
The blindspots in India’s skilling programme
Skilling, PMKVY, NAPS
Our flagship skills development scheme is unable to deliver sustainable outcomes. But an alternative exists
E-commerce Aparajita
India’s e-commerce policy: Adding uncertainty to the cart
National e-commerce Policy
The latest iteration seems more balanced than before, but it kicks all thorny issues down the road
COVID package - first announcement
Will the coronavirus social protection package suffice?
Social Protection
Many measures announced under the PM Garib Kalyan Yojana are simply frontloading payments or redirecting funds that had been budgeted for other welfare activities
Menstrual Leave
Paid period leaves - Designing a new framework
Gender, Labour policies
While the intentions of those campaigning for menstrual leave are laudable, we must be cognizant of the unintended consequences that may arise from such a policy
Digital citizenship
India needs digital citizenship education
Education, Social Emotional Learning
For far too long, we have parked the blame at technology’s door; the need of the hour is innovative engagement with the youth to make the internet a more hospitable space
Publications
Women & work
Women & work: How India fared in 2021
GENDER, Labour Force
A data story on women’s livelihoods and work in the year of 2021 - women’s changing role in the economy, their resilience in the face of the crisis and the opportunities that lie ahead.
App store regulation
Towards regulating App Stores
TECH, COMPETITION, STARTUPs
A study to assess the competitive landscape in the app store market in India, highlight pressing concerns of developers, and determine the need, if any, for government intervention.
FADA
Levelling the playing field: OEM-Dealer relationships
AUTO
Undertaking a comparative analysis of OEM-dealership agreements in India and abroad, this study makes the case for a policy intervention to safeguard dealer (and consumer) interests in India
Encryption
Regulating Encryption in India
Tech, Privacy
This study envisions a framework that acknowledges the importance of consumer privacy & technological innovation, while not diminishing the role of the government in protecting national security
Towards a gender-responsive and inclusive economic recovery for India in the COVID-19 context
A gender-responsive & inclusive economic recovery for India
Economic Recovery, Gender
Suggestions for a macroeconomic recovery framework that places special emphasis on women and girls, including monetary and fiscal policy measures as well as innovative financing options to achieve gender-equitable outcomes.
WEE Landscape
Economic Empowerment of Women – A Policy Landscape
GENDER
Employing a critical gender lens, this study identifies promising exemplars of transformative policies that create an enabling environment for women’s economic empowerment in India
UEGS
Designing an Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme
Social Security
In the context of the pandemic and its severe impact on livelihoods in urban areas, this study looks at the principles that should underline a gender responsive urban employment guarantee scheme
India’s focus on its youth – Analysis of the Union Budget
India’s focus on its youth – Analysis of the Union Budget
Budget, Fiscal Policy
Despite being home to one of the youngest populations in the world, India spends less than 4% of its annual budget on youth-focused schemes
Saving the economy from COVID-19
COVID - Will India’s 20 lakh crore relief package deliver?
Economic Recovery, Social Security
A detailed analysis of the different measures announced by the Finance Minister, their likely impact on India’s economic recovery and potential challenges in implementation
Menstrual Hygiene
Menstrual Waste Disposal
Sanitation, Sustainability
A study for the NFSSM Alliance to understand the menstrual waste value chain & possible solutions to the ballooning problem of waste disposal
Digital payments
Addressing the barriers to adoption in digital payments
Digital Payments, Tech Policy
The Indian economy is a predominantly cash driven economy. While the penetration of digital payments has increased significantly in the last decade, cash still continues to dominate
EBooks
EBooks: Building Blocks of India’s Knowledge Economy
EDUCATION, TECH, TAXATION
Despite the positive externalities associated with inexpensive books, eBooks are not afforded a favourable tax environment in India
Women Entrepreneurs in Sanitation
Women Entrepreneurs in Sanitation
Entrepreneurship, Gender, Sanitation
Leveraging insights gleaned from ground level case studies, this report advocates for more systematic government support for women entrepreneurs in general and more specifically, in the context of sanitation
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