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In the essay “Working with the government for educational change,” Rizwan Ahmed critically interrogates his experience as a CSO member of working with the governmental system, while striving toward ensuring the educational rights of children from marginal, migrant communities.

In the essay titled “Working with the government as a nobody,” Ashish Shrivastava discusses his organization’s journey in serving underserved children’s educational needs in a geography that has seen intense conflicts. He shows how active listening, building hyper-local partnerships, collaborating with a shared vision, and keeping a resolute focus on the field, can help in building credibility and effective partnerships with people and institutions in the government system.

This issue of Samuhik Pahal focuses on issues and perspectives related to CSO’s collaborative work with governments for educational change.

Capacity building is an often neglected aspect of our work in the social sector. This is especially so in the domain of education. Even in the work of those organizations which work on education in a focused manner, often the larger organizational and operational aspect of the work does not end up receiving that much […]

In the resources piece we share with you, information about various platforms, apps, initiatives and programs that can potentially help NGOs, especially those working in the domain of education, in effectively navigating the process of integrating ICT into their work.

Rucha Pande and Sushant Kumar, in their article, show us how we can potentially contribute toward positively shifting the needle in the public education system through partnerships with the government.