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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.
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Time to Shift Civil Society’s Priorities: A Bitter Lesson from the Pandemic
- Pandemic
In the absence of a strong push from the civil society, our democratic institutions by themselves have no intrinsic incentive to reform. With the result that in India’s gravest hour, we had no effective mechanism to hold a sitting government accountable.
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Budget 2021-22: What Does it Hold for Women’s Safety, Employment and Life?
- BUDGET
While there have been some small announcements for women in the budget, women’s core concerns over food and nutrition, employment and livelihoods, and prevention of violence and safety after a year of unprecedented hardship need a further boost.
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An Unlikely Common Strand of 2020 — Land and Property Rights
- Property Rights
A continued focus on land and property rights is important — these cross-cutting issues not only impact the growth of India’s economy but play an important role in the lives of all Indians.
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How Can Policies for Women’s Empowerment Be More Impactful?
- 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.
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An Urban Employment Scheme that is Responsive to Women’s Needs
- Gender
While the need for a centrally administered UEGS has been acknowledged by the central Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, funds availability remains a constraint.
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The Rise of the Female Voting Bloc
- 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.
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In Children We Must Trust
- Children
India’s privacy law must balance the rights of children with online safety.
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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.
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With Design Changes, 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.
