People practices

The current issue of Samuhik Pahal focuses on the theme of people practices in CSOs. It tries to bring in perspectives, and to share strategies and practices, which CSOs across the country are following to build sustainable and humane organizations and create deeper impact.

In her perspective building piece, Sujatha Rao provides a historical overview of people practices as an area of human endeavour and raises some important questions that can help us rethink people practices in CSOs in a critical and balanced manner.

In an article titled “Nurture, trust and patience,” Surya Prakash Rai shares the experiences of co-creating an inclusive team by keeping capacity building at the centre of their CSO’s people practices and of looking beyond formal qualifications while recruiting team members.

Mainak Roy and Trisha Sharma, in their essay, show that in order to create CSOs as supportive spaces for all team members, it is important to cultivate an organizational culture that prioritizes empathy, inclusion and learning.

Shubhra Chatterji, in her article, shares the importance of collectively developing a value-driven organizational culture in building a humane people practices system, which can support impactful work on the ground.

Ashish Shrivastava shows us how being rooted in self-identified values, and responding to one’s context with sincerity, can help CSOs in fortifying human capital at the grassroots.