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This Week’s Policy Focus:
India’s critically low groundwater levels owing to rapid depletion are hinting towards alarming scenarios, be it in terms of water security or crop yields.
Policy Charcha 💬
The best of Podcasts, Videos, Essays, Fellowships and other Carer resources from the world of Policy and Governance from the week gone by!
🎥 Video: Key takeaways from India’s household spending survey
📝 Op-Ed: Why Maharashtra’s attempt at fixing the health system by simply building more medical colleges has been a failure.
🔔 Weekly Opportunity Highlight: Demystifying Salaries in the public policy + social impact space in India.
💻 Training highlight: Quant bootcamp by CPC analytics - learn essential R skills and tap into the power of data-driven decision-making.
🌎 The Environmental Data Journalism Academy comes to India!
🔎 Databases and Guides: 100s of free Career Resources + Databases ✨
🌆 Community - Policy + Social Impact career chapters in India’s 20 largest cities!
Research Highlight🔔
Local action for air pollution in India:
👉🏽 An alternative approach to generating hyperlocal information on the causes of pollution in a city. The methodology has been developed and refined by CEEW in close consultation and coordination with DoE (Department of Environment, (GNCTD)). This approach entails identifying, mapping, and addressing hyperlocal dispersed sources of pollution comprehensively. The report aims to provide a template for other cities to emulate.
Podcast Alert🔔
Decoding social impact consulting, MBA and careers in public Policy:
👉🏽 In conversation with Keshav Kanoria, Principal at The Bridgespan Group (TBG) and someone with varied experience across the social sector consulting landscape.
Keshav decodes & talks about different actors in social sector consulting, value add of a consultant, hiring, impact measurement, experience of doing MBA at ISB, how to build communication skills and offers wonderful insights & anecdotes from his own experience of working in social sector consulting across different firms.
Community Updates💌
The vibrant PPI Community in Bhopal met up in-person this week, to get to know people from the same space in their cities better, interact and foster a local ecosystem of opportunities and awareness overall!
Bhopal 📍
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📢Introducing Policy Communities!
Careers Corner 💼
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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