PRIA India supporting 6th SFC, Sikkim. Day 2, consultation with officials of all ULBs organised at @Gangtok MC to discuss issues and seeking suggestions for consideration by 6th SFC. Chairperson, stressed on the need of peer learning and documentation of best practices on OSR

PRIA India supporting 6th SFC, Sikkim. Day 3 consultation with officials of PRIs organised at Chintan Bhawan to discuss issues and seeking suggestions for consideration by 6th SFC Chairperson urged all officials to come up with ideas for generating own revenue resources for PRIs

PRIA India supporting 6th SFC, Sikkim. Day 3, 2nd consultation with State officials of Finance, UDD, RDD, organised to discuss state of devolution, financial health of local bodies and other key issues for consideration by 6th SFC.

Congratulations to colleague & partner of 40 yrs in recognition to her exceptional courage & innovation in supporting voice & representation of urban poor around the world Budd Hall UNESCO Chair in CBR & Social Responsibility of HE PRIA India Jagadananda (ଜଗଦାନନ୍ଦ) Yogesh Kumar ashok kumar singh Martha Farrell Foundation Stay on Sheela

ECRC intervention curated by PRIA India supported by European Commission focused on strengthening #communityleadership & #civilsociety role in planning & monitoring of sanitation services for #urbanpoor. Catch a glimpse on Josh Talks #citychampions - instagram.com/reel/Crksfdauq…

PRIA India facilitating learning exchange workshop at #Nagarkot, Nepal on Social Accountability and Advocacy with #EducationOutLoud partners from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Philippines Global Partnership for Education Kaustuv Rajesh Tandon Martha Farrell Foundation UNESCO Chair in CBR & Social Responsibility of HE Global Partnership for Social Accountability

NCE Nepal stressed on civil society empowerment and mobilisation to ensure social accountability mechanisms in place and operational Global Partnership for Education ASPBAE John Gaventa Rajesh Tandon Kaustuv UNESCO Chair in CBR & Social Responsibility of HE

Sayeed Ahamed IID Bangladesh shared that 500 youth volunteers in 35 districts collected data through community meetings and survey to prepare Youth Manifesto for Social Accountability and engaged with Parliamentarians PRIA International Academy - PIA Kaustuv Rajesh Tandon ASPBAE Global Partnership for Social Accountability

Kaneez PCE SAQE Pakistan shared PCE's intervention on #Vote4Education campaign by Community Education Groups to demand accountability of elected representatives of Local, Provincial & Federal govt's She also highlighted poor implementation of RTE Act 2010 and financial devolution

Rights to culture & languages embed indigenous knowledge systems, critical for human survival in coming decades PRIA India UNESCO Chair in CBR & Social Responsibility of HE promoting recognition of indigenous knowledge in light of recommendations Open Science UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 exclusion thru knowledge @FPCFoundation

PRIA India facilitating 6th State Finance Commission #Sikkim Consultation with elected representatives of Gram Panchayats and Zilla Panchayats revealed capacity gaps and challenges in generating Own Source Revenue for developmental needs. facebook.com/10006681978617…

PRIA International Academy - PIA in Collaboration with ICMR NIREH BHOPAL concluded 2nd Cohort of Six weeks online course on Community Based Participatory Research in Environmental Health Out of 59 applications 17 shortlisted and 13 participants successfully completed the course Rajesh Tandon Kaustuv

During interaction with 6th State Finance Commission Sikkim, SIRD Sikkim and PR & Skill Development Department shared their initiatives on Capacity Building of ERs and Skilling. These important institutions are under resourced and limited institutional capacities PRIA India

PRIA India facilitated dialogue among 6th State Finance Commission Sikkim and #CSR representatives of various industries in #Sikkim Industry demands for nodal agency at govt level to coordinate their fruitful and sustainable engagement with Local Bodies m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

PRIA India facilitated dialogue among 6th SFC Sikkim and #SHGs #FPOs There are 5000 SHGs and 30 FPOs registered in #Sikkim SHGs can play an important role in citizen education and awareness in increasing own source revenue of PRIs Rajesh Tandon PRIA Civil Society Program PRIA Panchayat

Promotion of transdisciplinary research can be further enabled thru focused research funding that includes partnerships all stages of research process GUNi Network UNESCO-UIL DST-CPR-IISc cmsprograms Dinesh C Sharma Living Knowledge Net @FoistLab Arjan de Haan Open Access India Open Science PRIA India

As delegation of new leaders from Rural Development Trust (RDT) visit PRIA India & Martha Farrell Foundation this week, remembering forty years of our long partnership in building capacity & voice of grassroots communities with inspiration of Fr Ferrer to continue despite obstacles

"...children don't have physical, mental devlt & their social life becomes null if they use smartphones for a long time" #fieldvisit activity with women through FGDs & Problem Tree Analysis in Baradih & Kishnidih Rajesh Tandon Gates Foundation India aaptiinstitute Kaustuv Martha Farrell Foundation

As Colloquium on Social Inequities in Health organised by Robert Koch-Institut in Berlin concludes, serious effort is needed worldwide to implement principle of participation and #CBPR to empower individuals & communities as resolved 45 yrs ago in Alma Ata PRIA India UNESCO Chair in CBR & Social Responsibility of HE UNAIDS Global