RESOURCE CENTER

Knowledge that travels beyond the room.

Reports, session recordings, and media coverage from every charcha and convening. Ungated, always, because the point was never to own the intelligence. It was to move it.

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Reports

Whitepapers and insight reports

whitepapers

Whitepaper

Building a Thriving Skilling Ecosystem

Distilled outputs from the Samajik Nyaya charcha, hosted with the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, on social justice, digital inclusion and livelihood pathways.

Whitepaper

Pragati Whitepaper

Pathways for accelerating women-led economic development across entrepreneurship, technology, and community-led models.

Whitepaper

Navigating Challenges & Unlocking Opportunities for the Artisanal Sector

A whitepaper on the structural barriers facing India’s 7M+ artisans, and shared pathways to scale market access, credit and modernised production.

Whitepaper

Whitepaper, Samajik Nyaya charcha

Distilled outputs from the Samajik Nyaya charcha, hosted with the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, on social justice,

reports

Virtual Session Report

charcha 2024 Virtual

Virtual edition outputs from charcha 2024, capturing key discussions and recommendations from livelihood-focused

Convening Report

India Next, Pre-Summit Consultation

Detailed report from the India Next pre-summit consultation, with pilotable roadmaps across social inclusion, rural development and MSME

Roundtable Synthesis

Beyond Bills, Roundtable Synthesis

Synthesis of policy and practice insights from the Beyond Bills roundtable on healthcare access, financing and outcomes.

Roundtable Synthesis

Smart Governance Roundtable Synthesis

Synthesis of cross-sector recommendations from the Smart Governance roundtable on technology-led delivery and citizen experience.

Insight Report

charcha 2022 Report

Distilled outputs from the 3rd edition of charcha — the first in-person convening, designed around pathways from poverty to

Insight Report

charcha 2024 Insights Report

Cross-sector ideas, collaborations and shared understandings from the 5th edition of charcha.

Convening Report

Accelerating the End of Extreme Poverty

Post-convening survey report from the Rockefeller Bellagio Center on building a Global South consortium for ending extreme poverty

charcha reports

Charcha Report

Mission Meets Market, theDelta

theDelta’s report on bridging mission-led innovators with market-scale execution, drawing on cross-sector practice across India’s

Charcha Report

One Crisis Away, theDelta Prize 2025

theDelta Prize 2025 report on India’s most vulnerable households living one shock away from poverty — pathways for resilience, social

Charcha Report

Five Bold Bets to Reduce Climate Vulnerability of Informal Communities in Urban India

Five concrete, fundable bets to lower climate vulnerability for informal urban communities — from housing and heat resilience to livelihoods

Charcha Report

Everests of Waste, theDelta Prize 2025

theDelta Prize 2025 report on India’s waste management challenge, spotlighting innovators tackling solid waste at city and

Charcha Report

Decoded: Women & the Future of Digital Work in India

Insights on gender gaps across India’s digital workforce, tech-enabled livelihoods, and the policy + practice levers needed to put more

Charcha Report

Direct Cash Transfers

A The Nudge Institute report distilling evidence on direct cash transfers — design principles, evaluations, and pathways to economic agency

Charcha Report

India Philanthropy Report 2024

The Bain India Philanthropy Report 2024, anchoring charcha sessions on closing the funding gap, family-led giving, and the role of

Charcha Report

State of Working India 2021

Azim Premji University’s flagship report on the labour-market impact of one year of COVID-19, anchoring charcha discussions on jobs and

Charcha Report

India Philanthropy Report 2023

The Bain × Dasra India Philanthropy Report referenced at charcha — trends in family philanthropy, social investing and the next

Charcha Report

Skill India Mission Report

Distilled outputs from charcha sessions on the Skill India Mission, mapping pathways to scale skilling and workforce development across

Charcha Report

The Nudge Prize, Women In Work

A Charcha companion report on India’s women-in-work prize, distilled around accelerating women-led economic

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Media

In the press

Why fixing near vision clears a surprisingly high bar for public investment

ThePrint

India’s next economic decade won’t be built by metros alone

ThePrint

charcha 2025, How the platform aims to define alignment infrastructure and India’s growth story

ThePrint

To create jobs, we need smart urbanisation: Amitabh Kant

Times of India

Report highlights gender gaps in India’s digital workforce

YourStory

charcha 2025: 6th edition to focus on tech, data for impact, policy, capacity building

ThePrint

India’s AI moment in agriculture lies in a unified ecosystem

ThePrint

The power of coming together to end extreme poverty in India

CNBC TV18

Workforce of 400 million women is what India needs to steer it towards a $30 trillion economy by 2047

Times of India

Jharkhand charcha 2025, The Nudge Institute

Yahoo Finance

Making Jobs & Talent Discoverable: Why It Matters For a Viksit Bharat

ThePrint

Collaborative action for Viksit Bharat: Uplifting livelihoods and backing innovators

ThePrint

the*spark forum’s charcha 2025 charts pathways for resilient livelihoods and collaborative action towards

Business Standard

Women form about one-fifth of India’s digital workforce, leadership roles a rarity

ThePrint

charcha 2025, India’s largest collaborative convening on livelihoods returns to Delhi

The/Nudge Institute to host India’s largest livelihoods summit charcha ’24

The/Nudge Institute to host charcha ’24 on rural-urban livelihoods in Delhi

The Hindu