Chintan Shivir happened this week and in the spirit of cross sectoral knowledge, The Policy Post this week brings to you a wide range of information:

• Events happening this week - investments, water management and more!

• Regenerative farming

• State-wise and city-wise database of 1,300+ policy organisations!

• How Wikipedia works?

As always, we wrap up with a curated list of opportunities.

If you want regular access to similar updates and opportunities in your city and local policy ecosystem, you can join our City Chapters: here!

Reading time: 4 minutes. Let’s get into it!

🗞️What’s In The News This Week?

The HSBC Flash India Composite PMI Output Index rose to 56.5 in September, from 54.3 in August, led by a stronger performance in manufacturing. The economy has been expanding for 62 consecutive months now (a PMI of 50+ signals economic expansion).

Speaking of economic expansion, the Odisha government has approved 27 industrial projects worth over Rs 2.45 lakh crore. The proposed projects would come up in 15 districts of Odisha, and can potentially generate employment for 50,000+ people.

🗓️Events to look forward to!

🎉A New Delhi-Agra roundtrip to visit Agra’s Sewage Treatment Plant on September 26!

🎉CDPG Annual Conclave, alongside CDPG National Student Case Competition 2026, on September 30!

🎉Rising Bihar Investor Summit 2026 in Patna on October 1!

Find more events here!!

💬Policy Charcha - one thing to learn this week

Wikipedia has over 64 million articles.

This article discusses how Wikipedia works, and how the editors decide on what to include in the free encyclopedia and what not to.

Read the article here!

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⚡The Catalyst Corner

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Regenerative agriculture is a holistic farming approach centred on restoring soil health and enhancing biodiversity. At the same time, it seeks to ensure long-term productivity and resilience in farming systems.

Unlike sustainable farming, which primarily aims to maintain existing conditions, regenerative agriculture seeks to improve them. It goes a step further by actively rebuilding soil health, enhancing biodiversity, and strengthening ecosystem resilience.

How CMS aids Regenerative Agriculture!

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This week has been interesting - an MDR on UPI, an increase in PF’ ceilings, a record 30 lakh beneficiaries for the PM Vishwakarma scheme!

The Policy Post this week brings to you a few interesting subjects:

• The Maple Bridge Research Fellowship - applications open!

• EPFO’s raised wage ceiling

• Events happening this September!

• Interacting through trade (and petroleum)

As always, we wrap up with a curated list of opportunities.

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🗞️What’s In The News This Week?

The wage ceiling for mandatory coverage under the EPFO was raised from Rs.15,000/month to Rs.25,000/month.

What this means: Workers earning up to Rs.25,000 a month are now mandatorily liable to contribute to their PF and eligible to encash a lump sum upon retirement.

For a worker earning Rs.15,000 to Rs.25,000 a month, it could mean a formal entry to the social security system and a higher retirement fund, while also having lesser cash in hand.

🗓️Events to look out for!!

🎉PAFI’s 13th Annual Forum on Engaging for Growth in a disrupted world, happening September 24-25!

🎉Student Conference on Conservation Science, happening September 28-October 1!

🎉CDPG Annual Conclave, alongside CDPG National Student Case Competition 2026, on September 30!

Know more and attend the events here!!

💬Policy Charcha - one thing to learn this week

Petroleum is India’s biggest import (32%) and its biggest export (20%).

This article discusses imports, exports and how countries interact in the global economy through trade.

Read the article here!

🏙️Applications open for Maple Bridge Research Fellowship!

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MAPLE BRIDGE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP:

• A 4-month Indo-Canadian Research Fellowship

• Explore how AI is reshaping policy and publish under your name!

• Open to all students in India and Canada (UG and PG), across disciplines

Apply by September 25, 2026!!!

Apply here!

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👀What caught our eye

Lotteries used to promote London elections.

An experiment was designed to test whether a lottery increases voter registration.

Two groups of 20,000 randomly-selected households were placed into a prize draw of £5000 and £1000 each. All other households were made the control group.

The results:

The registration rates were 46.2% in the £1000 group and 46.6% in the £5000 group compared to 44.7% in the control.

The study found that households in poorer locations are more receptive to the lottery offer, while the lottery did not incentivise richer households.

⚡The Catalyst Corner

In Partnership With Swasti, The Health Catalyst

Agricultural systems often fail farmers not due to productivity gaps, but because decisions around capital, markets, and risk are structurally misaligned.

Commons.farm is an end-to-end decision platform for agriculture, designed to reposition farmers as entrepreneurs and villages as economic centres.

Read more on Commons.farm!

💼Careers Corner: 100s of opportunities across the policy and impact space every week!

A curated list of some of the best jobs and internship opportunities this week from the world of public policy, the development sector, impact consulting and communications at large.

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Welcome back to The Policy Post!

This week, India shared that it plans to establish an indigenous space station by 2035. In this edition, we plan to look into cool things happening on earth and outside:

• How do young people move from education into employment?

• What plans India has for space exploration and why?

• How does data turn into decisions?

As always, we wrap up with a curated list of career opportunities, events happening across India and policy updates.

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🗞️What’s In The News This Week?

India made public its aim to establish an Indian space station by 2035 and send an Indian to the Moon by 2040.

ISRO has earned admiration for its excellence and cost-effective missions: Chandrayan-3 made India the first nation to land near the lunar south pole. Aditya-L1 is unlocking the secrets of the Sun. More than 430 satellites from 34 countries have travelled to space aboard Indian rockets.

Why nations focus on space exploration?

Nearly 40% of the 169 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets are directly supported by space-based services. Satellites are used to map flood-prone areas, support Free Wi-Fi initiatives, monitor endangered species. It serves farmers and fishermen, weather forecasting, disaster management, navigation and public good.

Other highlights:

• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved 8 major railway multi-tracking projects spanning 1,196 kilometers across 31 districts in 9 states.

• The operational guidelines for the Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP 3.0) was released for 2026–2031. It mandates rollout of 3D land-use mapping, drone-based cadastral surveys for rural inhabited areas, and full integration of unique land parcel identification numbers (Bhu-Aadhaar or ULPIN) with court records and banking mortgage databases

  

⁉️PPI’s Policy or Parody?

💬Policy Charcha - one thing to learn this week

Nearly 40% of graduates aged 15–25 in the labour force are unemployed, as are about 20% of those aged 25–29. Only a small share land stable salaried jobs within a year of graduating.

The State of Working India 2026 Report by Azim Premji University traces a young person’s journey from school or college into work, and how that journey has changed over the last four decades.

Read the Report here!

⚡The Catalyst Corner

In Partnership With Swasti, The Health Catalyst

How does that data actually turn into better decisions?

In education, it tracks learning outcomes, flags students at risk early, and targets interventions. In public health, it identifies vulnerable populations and strengthens preparedness. In disaster response, it filters incoming alerts and summarises them with context so responders can act faster.

Catalyst X builds the decision infrastructure that makes this possible.

Read how data is used here!

💼Careers Corner: 100s of opportunities across the policy and impact space every week!

A curated list of some of the best jobs and internship opportunities this week from the world of public policy, the development sector, impact consulting and communications at large.

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🗓️PPI’s Events Bulletin

The Policy and Impact space is happening!

Events, conferences, meetups across India - different cities discuss different subjects every week!

Want to know what’s happening in your city this week? Check our database (and comment what we have missed!):

What's happening this week!?

⁉️Policy or Parody?

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Welcome back to The Policy Post. It’s Another Beautiful Friday and last week we officially crossed over into the final one-thirds of 2020’s 🤯

With that, onto this week’s edition :D

We are trying to understand better a few interesting subjects:

• Legal Metrology (Indian Standard Time) Rules, 2026 - what are these and why?

• India’s 5-year window for reform - what exactly does it mean and how?

• Unemployment doesn’t affect health in Denmark - really?

As always, we wrap up with a curated list of career opportunities and policy updates.

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🗞️What’s In The News This Week?

What?: The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution notified the Legal Metrology (Indian Standard Time) Rules, 2026, making Indian Standard Time (IST) the single official time reference across official, commercial, and legal operations.

How?: Stakeholders, including telecom operators, financial exchanges, power grids, and tech companies, have been given a 180-day transition window to synchronize their digital systems and hardware clocks with IST.

Why?: Using Indian timing systems, including atomic clocks and NavIC, will reduce India’s dependence on foreign satellite-based time sources for critical infrastructure. This can help reduce potential national security risks to critical digital infrastructure. However, smaller enterprises and regional banks will face compliance costs upgrading legacy server hardware.

What next?: This has reignited the long-standing debate on whether Northeast India needs a separate time zone.

⁉️PPI’s Policy or Parody?

💬Policy Charcha - one thing to learn this week

The world is distracted, India can now build its strength in peace.

This video discusses how India should refocus within and why this is the right time!

👀What caught our eye

Studies examining the impact of job loss on health in Austria, the USA and elsewhere have found that unemployment is associated with higher mortality rates and negative effects on mental health and children’s health.

Unemployed people in Denmark did not experience these health effects.

What did Denmark do differently?

In Denmark, unemployment insurance replaces 90% of lost wages, with a cap, which was roughly equivalent to US$628 per week. Unemployed people can receive these transfers for up to four years. They also have access to job search assistance, training programmes and other active labour market policies. This support is complemented by universal health insurance.

Read more!

⚡The Catalyst Corner

In Partnership With Swasti, The Health Catalyst
Small farmers often struggle with financial barriers that limit their ability to invest in their farms. These barriers include a lack of collateral, limited credit history, and complex banking processes.

Small farmers require working-capital loans, infrastructure financing and revolving credit lines to achieve productivity. For this growth to be sustainable, financial literacy, financial planning and insurance solutions are essential.

V-Life has supported 11,000+ families through different forms of financial assistance.

Read how here!!

💼Careers Corner: 100s of opportunities across the policy and impact space every week!

A curated list of some of the best jobs and internship opportunities this week from the world of public policy, the development sector, impact consulting and communications at large.

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⁉️Policy or Parody?

Do you think every law should be debated after a certain time-period? Tell us in the comments below!

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Over the last six years, one question has shown up in our inboxes, community groups, events and conversations more than any other:

“How do I get started in public policy?”

The answer has never been straightforward. Opportunities are scattered, resources are often hidden behind the right networks, and for many people, the policy ecosystem can feel far more inaccessible than it actually is.

So we’ve put together the resources we wish every aspiring policy professional knew about on Day One. Whether you’re exploring policy for the first time, considering a career transition, preparing for higher studies, looking for organisations in your state, or simply trying to understand where you fit into this ecosystem, everything below is designed to make that journey a little easier.

Let’s dive in ;))))

🏛️Start Here

One of the biggest misconceptions about public policy is that it’s a single career path. In reality, people enter and contribute to the sector in very different ways, depending on their interests, skills and motivations. That’s exactly why we built:

Policy Career Navigator, a free tool that helps you explore possible pathways and understand where your interests might align within the policy ecosystem.

Explore here!!!!!!!

🚀The Resource We’d Recommend to Almost Everyone

For years, many people, including members of our own community, assumed that meaningful policy opportunities existed only in a handful of cities.

Building our State-wise Directory of Policy Organisations challenged that assumption completely. From grassroots organisations and research institutions to advocacy groups and implementation-focused organisations, incredible work is happening across the country.

If you’re trying to discover organisations near you, understand regional policy ecosystems, or simply expand your understanding of the sector, this is one of the most useful places to start ;p

Explore the Directory

💼Looking for Courses, Fellowships, Policy Schools or Organisations?

Over the years, we’ve built and curated FREE databases covering fellowships, policy schools and programmes, learning resources, podcasts, organisations working across sectors, and regional directories from across India for our community.

Instead of spending hours searching through dozens of websites, you can begin with a single repository built specifically for people interested in public policy ;))))

Explore All the Databases!!

🗳️Learn from Practitioners

Some of the most useful insights about policy don’t come from textbooks; they come from listening to people doing the work.

Through Policy Panchayats, we’ve hosted conversations with policymakers, researchers, founders, bureaucrats and practitioners working across sectors.

An attempt at answering some of the most common questions about public policy and building careers in this space!!!!!!

📅Read, Explore, Understand

Public policy is ultimately about people, places and systems. If you’d like to go deeper, explore The Many Indias, a collection of stories and perspectives from across the country, or browse our collection of research reports and e-books covering governance, policy and public affairs.

Explore Many Indias Here!

We've also researched and curated a library of free e-books, policy resources and reports, including the first edition of the State of Policy India Report, to help you better understand the ideas, institutions and trends shaping the sector.

Review the Resources Here:))

Find Your Community

Careers are built through opportunities, but they’re sustained through communities.

Over the years, thousands of students, professionals, researchers and practitioners have joined PPI City Chapters to discover opportunities, exchange ideas and meet others navigating similar journeys. If you’re looking to stay connected to the ecosystem, this is one of the easiest ways to begin.

Join Your City Chapter!!!

You can also explore initiatives such as Policy Circles, Showcase, Spotlight, Pathfinders, and PPI Executive, all designed to help members of the community learn, connect and grow in different ways.

💼Looking For Jobs, Fellowships & Internships?

A curated list of some of the best jobs and internship opportunities this week from the world of public policy, the development sector, impact consulting and communications at large.

📩 Best bit - if you know of a job/internship opening that’s not listed here, kindly just add that as a comment on the sheet: giving 20,000+ people immediate access to it!

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💜Before You Go

If this edition resonates with you, send it to one person who is curious about public policy. Someone looking for their first opportunity. Someone considering a career transition.

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Someone who keeps saying, “I’d love to work in policy, but I don’t know where to start.”

There’s a good chance they’ll find something useful here :)))))

See you next Friday.

Team Public Policy India💜

Six years. 150,000+ people. 40+ city chapters across India’s 25+ largest cities. A community that’s 55.6% women and 80% under 30. One special edition capturing what this community has built together.

Public Policy India recently completed six years (!!!), and over the last few weeks, we’ve found ourselves reflecting on what that journey has made possible. On 14 August, at the India International Centre, New Delhi, we launched the State of Policy in India Report 2026 and STRIDE, our new research and consulting vertical. Both emerged from something that has always been at the heart of PPI: the belief that communities don’t just consume knowledge, they create it.

In this edition, we’re sharing the report with everyone, highlighting an opportunity to contribute to the National Youth Policy 2026, and, as always, bringing together useful resources, opportunities and events from across the policy ecosystem :)))))

Let’s dive in.

🏛️The Report Written By This Community

Over the last few months, 413 members of the PPI community participated in an extensive survey exploring some of the most important questions shaping India’s future, from education and public health to technology, sustainability, governance and youth participation.

Alongside that, more than 18,000 responses across our community polls helped us understand not just what people think, but where opinions converge, where they differ and where the biggest questions still remain.

Together, those insights became the State of Policy in India Report 2026. So today, we’re opening it up to the community that made it possible.

👉 Read the State of Policy in India Report 2026

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🚀Introducing STRIDE

One thing we’ve learned over the last six years is that communities generate incredible ideas.

The harder part is making sure those ideas don’t end when the conversation does.

Every chapter discussion, survey response, webinar question and community conversation carries insights that deserve a life beyond a single event or WhatsApp thread.

That’s why we’ve launched STRIDE — the Strategic Research and Impact Development Enterprise.

STRIDE is PPI’s research and consulting arm, built to transform community insights into research, research into action and action into impact.

The State of Policy in India Report 2026 is the first major piece of work to emerge from STRIDE. It won’t be the last :)))

🗳️Help Shape National Youth Policy 2026

The Government of India is currently inviting public inputs for the National Youth Policy 2026.

Whether you care about education, employability, entrepreneurship, mental health, leadership, civic participation or the future of young people in India, this is an opportunity to contribute directly to a national policy framework.

Learn More!!!!

📅Looking For Policy Events?

Finding good policy events shouldn’t feel harder than attending them.

To make things easier, we’ve put together a Public Policy Events Tracker that brings together conferences, consultations, workshops, dialogues and ecosystem events from across the country.

If you’re looking to learn, network or simply stay plugged into what’s happening across the policy landscape, this is a good place to start.

Access the Tracker Here!!!

💼Looking For Jobs, Fellowships & Internships?

A curated list of some of the best jobs and internship opportunities this week from the world of public policy, the development sector, impact consulting and communications at large.

📩 Best bit - if you know of a job/internship opening that’s not listed here, kindly just add that as a comment on the sheet: giving 20,000+ people immediate access to it!

Jobs/Internships Master Database

💜Before You Go

One of the things we’ve always loved about this community is that people rarely wait to be asked.

They share opportunities before someone requests them. They make introductions. They answer questions. They help complete strangers navigate careers they themselves were once trying to figure out.

The report, STRIDE and every resource we’ve shared in this edition exist because people chose to participate.

So thank you for reading, contributing and building alongside us over the last six years.

And if you’d like more regular access to events, discussions and opportunities in your local policy ecosystem, consider joining your nearest PPI City Chapter.

Join Your City Chapter!!!

See you next Friday.

Team Public Policy India💜

The Policy Post this week brings to you

• Rwanda’s use of drones to bypass mountains and roads for blood delivery

• The structural crisis facing the Indian middle class

• Building businesses: how to build and how to verify growth

As always, we wrap up with a curated list of opportunities.

If you want regular access to similar updates and opportunities in your city and local policy ecosystem, you can join our City Chapters: here!

Reading time: 3 minutes. Let’s get into it!

⁉️PPI’s Policy or Parody?

💬Policy Charcha - one thing to learn this week

The middle class is the fastest-growing major segment of the Indian population in both percentage and absolute terms, rising at 6.3% per year. It now represents 31% of the population and is expected to be 60% in 2047.

This video discusses the structural crisis the Indian middle class faces. It examines collapsing job prospects, falling real wages, and the shift from corporate careers towards entrepreneurial thinking in India today.

👀What caught our eye

Rwanda tripled its blood donation rates between 2000 and 2018 using drones.

One of the country’s major challenges in providing blood to those in need, especially in rural and remote areas, is the country’s terrain - including impassable mountains and damaged roads.

Rwanda uses a drone technology called ‘Zipline’ which cuts blood delivery times down from four hours to just 15 minutes in some cases. It avoided the cost of stable road networks and electrical grids by leapfrogging to drone deliveries.

Read more here!

⚡The Catalyst Corner

In Partnership With Swasti, The Health Catalyst

How do we know a business is thriving?

Increased turnover, reduced costs, improved supply chains, and secure livelihoods for the workers.

What are some ways an organisation can help a business thrive?

By providing

• Marketing assistance: Onboarding support to small and large businesses on major B2B and B2C e-commerce platforms to amplify profits.

• Financing Services: Easy access to unsecured term loans for small and large businesses.

• Digital services: Providing automation software to help increase productivity and reduce the cost of doing business.

These are a few strategies used by the Business Catalyst program to assist 500+ factories, 5000+ women-owned businesses, and 50,000+ MSMEs.

Read how Business Catalyst works!

💼Careers Corner: 100s of opportunities across the policy and impact space every week!

A curated list of some of the best jobs and internship opportunities this week from the world of public policy, the development sector, impact consulting and communications at large.

📩 Best bit - if you know of a job/internship opening that’s not listed here, kindly just add that as a comment on the sheet: giving 20,000+ people immediate access to it!

Jobs/Internships Master Database

⁉️Policy or Parody?

🌷PPI Referral Program: Help us grow our community

Thank you for taking the time to read The Policy Post this week. If you find what we do at PPI to be of value, please spread the word.

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The Policy Post this week brings to you

• Scholarship Giveaway for MA in Public Policy and E-Governance program at RV University: up to 50% scholarship

• Generating employment through repurposing and recycling plastic

• DPI from a socio-technical lens

• New Zealand’s wellbeing budget

As always, we wrap up with a curated list of opportunities.

If you want regular access to similar updates and opportunities in your city and local policy ecosystem, you can join our City Chapters: here!

Reading time: 3 minutes. Let’s get into it!

⁉️PPI’s Policy or Parody?

💬Policy Charcha - one thing to learn this week

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is often positioned as puzzle pieces that seamlessly slot into existing infrastructure in the Global South. It is not.

This essay discusses how to frame DPI in a way that keeps social and political questions front and centre, instead of treating them as afterthoughts to implementation.

Read the full article here!

🎓 Scholarship giveaway: up to 50% of tuition fee

In partnership with RV University.

The MA in Public Policy and E-Governance program at RV University is:

🟣 Open to graduates from all academic and professional backgrounds

🟣 Two years

🟣 Has interdisciplinary curriculum (digital innovation, sustainability, development, and public policy) backed by hands-on fieldwork exposure

🟣 The UPSC Advantage: The school supports civil services aspirants, offering collaborations with leading coaching institutes to assist in preparation.

🟣 It expands students’ reach through international collaborations and exchange programs.

Apply now!!

📌 If you apply via PPI, be sure to mention us as your reference to be considered for the waiver.

👀What caught our eye

New Zealand’s Wellbeing Budget

The Wellbeing Budget is founded on the idea that financial prosperity alone is not a sufficient measure of the quality of a nation’s life.

New Zealand, hence, prepared a budget for five priority areas:

Taking mental health seriously, improving child wellbeing, supporting Māori and Pasifika aspirations, building a productive nation, and transforming the economy.

⚡The Catalyst Corner

In Partnership With Swasti, The Health Catalyst

Plastic pollution is a serious problem. So is unemployment.

Noble Plastics works on solving both. It creates jobs and sustainable livelihoods, by employing local communities to reduce plastic use, plant trees, and repurpose and recycle plastic.

Doing so, it has generated over INR 90 lakh in wages for marginalised groups, planted 20,500 trees, and kept away 600+ tonnes of plastic from landfills and waterways.

Read on Noble Plastics!

💼Careers Corner: 100s of opportunities across the policy and impact space every week!

A curated list of some of the best jobs and internship opportunities this week from the world of public policy, the development sector, impact consulting and communications at large.

📩 Best bit - if you know of a job/internship opening that’s not listed here, kindly just add that as a comment on the sheet: giving 20,000+ people immediate access to it!

Jobs/Internships Master Database

⁉️Policy or Parody?

🌷PPI Referral Program: Help us grow our community

Thank you for taking the time to read The Policy Post this week. If you find what we do at PPI to be of value, please spread the word.

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The Policy Post this week brings to you

• Scholarship Giveaway for MA in Public Policy and E-Governance program at RV University: up to 50% scholarship

• Finland’s ‘Housing First’ Policy

• Fair compensation for farmers - an alternative to FPCs

• Why India is betting big on nuclear when countries like Germany are shutting theirs down?

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⁉️PPI’s Policy or Parody?

💬Policy Charcha - one thing to learn this week

India's Union Budget 2025 announced a ₹20,000 crore Nuclear Energy Mission with a target of 100 GW by 2047. That's 12x where we are today.

This video discusses why India is betting big on nuclear when countries like Germany are shutting theirs down.

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👀What caught our eye

Finland’s ‘Housing First’ Policy!

Unlike traditional homelessness models that many countries use - which often require people to address their problems with substance abuse or mental illness before being assigned housing - stable housing comes first in Finland's initiative. Once participants in the program have a place to stay, they receive other support services to help them deal with substance abuse or other challenges.

By providing shelter without preconditions, Finland reduced homelessness by 76% from 2008 to 2017.

Read more here!

⚡The Catalyst Corner

In Partnership With Swasti, The Health Catalyst

With confidence in Farmer Producer Companies decreasing, smallholder farmers often find themselves indebted to traders and are compelled to sell their produce at unfavourable margins.

Catalyst Livelihood Ventures (CLV) Farm is an agri-marketing initiative that works with smallholder farmers to improve produce quality and procure their commodities, facilitated by the FPC. CLV sells these commodities to large buyers and brands at a premium generated through value-added activities, ensuring the farmers receive fair compensation for their risk and effort.

Read more on CLV here!

💼Careers Corner: 30+ new listings this week

A curated list of some of the best jobs and internship opportunities this week from the world of public policy, the development sector, impact consulting and communications at large.

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The Policy Post this week brings to you

• Reimagining City Budgets Through Citizen Participation

• State Of Policy In India, 2026 Report

• Crows used to pick up litter - a cost-cutting drive

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💬Policy Charcha - one thing to learn this week

Municipal budgets, collectively handle between ₹1.5 and ₹1.8 lakh crore annually.

This essay discusses how municipal budgets are perhaps the most neglected documents in Indian democracy.

Read on participatory budget here!

👀What caught our eye

We can teach crows to pick up cigarette butts but we can’t teach people not to throw them on the ground.

New Caledonian crows, a member of the corvid family of birds, are as good at reasoning as a human seven-year-old. The Corvid Cleaning Company has now recruited these crows to pick up discarded cigarette butts from the streets and squares of a Swedish city as part of a cost-cutting drive.

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⚡The Catalyst Corner

In Partnership With Swasti, The Health Catalyst

Unless we address how the health system is experienced, a life of well-being may remain a distant dream for the marginalised. This is the foundational understanding behind Swasti’s flagship program, Invest4Wellness (i4We), as well as, their incubation of the CPHC Alliance.

i4We is a system innovation in primary healthcare. It combines health and wealth interventions, and focuses on well-being for the poor and marginalised communities. It is intentionally designed to be affordable, quality-assured, and scalable.

It is currently delivered in four settings: urban, rural, factories, and sex workers’ collectives, and is adapted to each of these contexts.

Read more on Primary Health here!

💼Careers Corner: 50+ new listings this week

A curated list of some of the best jobs and internship opportunities this week from the world of public policy, the development sector, impact consulting and communications at large.

📩 Best bit - if you know of a job/internship opening that’s not listed here, kindly just add that as a comment on the sheet: giving 20,000+ people immediate access to it!

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The Policy Post this week brings to you

• Musical stairs in Kochi metro

• Homicide trends in India

• Founder Hours - ask your questions to Yash

• Assisting smallholder farmers

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• How communities can be developed by investing on women

• YLAC Policy Collective - Applications open now

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The Policy Post this week brings to you

• What Can a Glass of Milk Teach You About Policy?

• How Volkswagen made a lottery out of speeding tickets

• What plastic is doing to the ocean

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The Policy Post this week brings to you

• How Volkswagen made trash bins fun (and effective)

• The increasing heat, its effects on India’s agriculture and Europe’s economy

• A wrap of PPI’s Policy Circles

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The Policy Post this week brings to you

• The ban imposed by the Government of Argentina on attending the World Cup

• Climate-fuelled landslides leading to the death of 58 of world’s rarest great apes in 4 days

• PPI’s latest policy circle in Bengaluru

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The Policy Post this week brings you

• Two Giveaways!

• Upcoming Policy Circle in Delhi (20th June)

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• A study on how Climate change may expand chikungunya risk in North America, Europe and Asia

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The Policy Post this week brings to you

• Upcoming Policy Circle in Bengaluru

• “State of India’s Environment: In figures” Report

• PPI Executive - a focussed community for policy professionals with 5+ years of experience

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• PPI Executive

• Giveaway for the community!

• Common Mid-Career Mistakes That Limit Advancement And Growth

• Chronic indoor heat exposure: an under-recognised climate threat

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