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Shared struggles, different contexts: The case for rethinking South-South collaboration
In recent years, I have noticed that donor interest in South-South collaboration has grown significantly. Foundations, bilateral agencies, and multilateral institutions are funding programs that aim to transfer solutions, and enterprises from one country to another. The intent is to leverage shared development experience and build peer-to-peer learning across the Global South. The design, however,…
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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…
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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…