Shivanshu Sharma

  • A story of people’s movement: Thimmapur

    Note: I have written this case study in 2015 during my time as a Young Professional at the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP), Telangana. It was developed with guidance from Sitaramachandra Machiraju and Vijeta Rao Bejjanki. This was my first time leading a field intervention and my first success. I am reproducing it…

  • Donor-funded captive engagement: The agtech problem?

    I have sat in many programme review meetings to know how this story mostly ends. A development programme partners with an agtech. Farmers are onboarded. Advisory messages are sent. App downloads climb. Field staff visit villages. The logframe target was 40,000 farmers- we reached 50,000. Programme successful. Then the programme ends. Six months later nobody…