Scholarship giveaway, sustainable livelihoods built on plastic, and a wellbeing budget
Policy Post #247
Dear reader,
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.
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⁉️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.
🎓 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.
📌 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.
💼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!
⁉️Policy or Parody?
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