Vignettes, diaries, videos, conversations: every entry in this section brings you up-close with us and our work
Our three operating units — Field Institutions, Grants and Universities — function in an integrated manner to fuel the Foundation’s motto of contributing towards a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society. We bring you a collection of narratives from all three units, straight from our people and partners across India. These stories, in the form of videos, animation, interviews and journals, showcase the journey and the Foundation in its various fields of work.
How Did Women’s Collectives Change an Entire Village?
Explore how women's collectives and local governance can work together to drive rural development.
Our Forest, Our Government | Community Forest Rights in Gadchiroli
Explore how communities in Gadchiroli are moving from awareness to action, demarcating forest boundaries, drafting management plans, and building institutions of self-governance from the ground up.
What Happens When Communities Own their Forests?
This film follows communities in southern Chhattisgarh as they strengthen local self-governance through Community Forest Rights.
Recasting Power: A Rural Feminist Movement Transforms Gujarat’s Local Democracy
Inside the Devgadh Mahila Sangathan’s quiet revolution reshaping local governance and accountability from the village upward.
Grassroots women leaders engage with local governance: The story from Barwani District of Madhya Pradesh
Meet Badlao Didis of Madhya Pradesh who are engaging with local governance to improve infrastructure and services.
Gram Panchayat Help Desk: Bridging the last mile in welfare delivery to the rural poor
A collaborative initiative between PRADAN and Gram Panchayats in Jharkhand
Gram Kachahari: Judiciary at the Grassroots
A unique legal system at the Gram Panchayat level is delivering quick and effective justice to thousands in Bihar.
Children in Local Governance
From campaigning for sanitary pad vending machines to playgrounds and cleaner villages, children are making their voice count in Maharashtra’s Gram Panchayats.
Gamechangers: The All-Woman Gram Panchayats of Uttarakhand
Many migration-prone Indian villages in this Himalayan state have had their fortunes turned around by women in governance roles.
How forest ownership rights reshaped the fortunes of a tribal village
Pachgaon has tapped its forest to start a bamboo business, create jobs and arrest migration. The village pays taxes and is also making a neat profit.
Empowering villagers to access their rights
Explore how Nagarik Sahayata Kendra is bridging last mile delivery of entitlements and redressing public grievances in rural Jharkhand.
‘Jungle is our life’: Indian villages collectivise, harness decades-old laws to protect forests
A federation of gram sabhas in Maharashtra is using India’s forest rights laws to guard their green cover and earn steady incomes.
