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Advocacy
Taking field realities to decision makers, and building citizens who ask for better policy.
We work where grassroots voices meet institutions, helping bring field realities to the people who make decisions. Our briefs, campaigns and public writing pair evidence with storytelling, so a message carries both weight and feeling. And because better policy needs citizens who ask for it, we take these ideas to the public through the Nayadrishti newsletter and podcast, our Padayatra comic, and games that put people in a policymaker's shoes.
What our advocacy builds
Voices that reach decision makers
Briefs and articles that carry field realities forward.
Policy in your language
Nayadrishti brings policy debates to readers in English and Malayalam.
Ideas anyone can follow
A podcast, a comic and games that make policy easy to pick up.
Projects (5)
Nayadrishti, India's first bilingual public policy newsletter
A fortnightly newsletter in English and Malayalam that takes public policy debates out of seminar rooms and into public view.
Nayadrishti Podcast
A weekly Malayalam podcast on policy, economics and society, from Kerala's economy and power crisis to the 1991 reforms.
Padayatra: a public policy journey, in comics
A comic series on the ideas behind public policy. Chapter 1, Trade-offs, follows a student leader who learns that every policy win comes with a compromise.
Policy simulation game: there are only trade-offs
A role-play game in which stakeholder groups bargain over a policy and find that every win costs something. Played at Make for Justice, the Multispecies Hackathon and YDF KRIA.
Society Solves: a game to unlock agency
Players act as policymakers fixing problems in a tribal hamlet, then discover that the people who live there know far more than any planner.