Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries
This post first appeared on IFMR Blog. The investment requirement of urban infrastructure over the next 20 years is estimated by the Isher Ahluwalia Committee to be in the region of Rs. 40 lakh crore....
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Understanding survey data
By Ajay Kumar, Intern, IFMR Finance Foundation The data collection exercise that we had covered in an earlier post as part of the slum engagement process was the first in a series of steps that we...
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A Design Thinking Approach to Urban Infrastructure Planning
By Vishnu Prasad & Ajay Kumar, Intern, IFMR Finance Foundation The previous posts in this series summarized our efforts to collect granular data on the quality of infrastructure services provision...
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Structuring a Design Thinking based Visioning Exercise
By Vishnu Prasad, IFMR Finance Foundation The previous post in this series discussed the design thinking approach and how it can be used to improve traditional urban planning methodologies. Keeping...
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Training the local team
By Dinesh Lodha, IFMR Finance Foundation Having adopted a design-thinking approach and structured a model that we had outlined in the previous post, we embarked on to executing it in the Ranganatha...
View ArticleSustainable Financing for Indian Cities
By Anand Sahasranaman & Vishnu Prasad, IFMR Finance Foundation A version of this article was first published in the September 2014 edition of the monthly journal Yojana. This post first appeared on...
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From Srirangapatna, A Data Lesson For India’s Cities
How many public taps are currently in the city and where do new taps need to be installed? Where do new public toilets need to be created? Which houses do not have daily garbage collection? These are...
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Community Outreach & Engagement
By Dinesh Lodha, IFMR Finance Foundation The emphasis on empathizing with the community, as part of the Design Thinking approach that we applied in Ranganatha Nagara, Srirangapatna, allowed us to...
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Community Engagement Workshops
By Dinesh Lodha & Vishnu Prasad, IFMR Finance Foundation At the core of using a design thinking based approach to urban infrastructure planning in Ranganatha Nagara 2 was the idea that the exercise...
View ArticleTest Workshop and Thoughts on the Process
By Dinesh Lodha, IFMR Finance Foundation Subsequent to the community engagement workshops that we had written about in the earlier post, the next stage of the design thinking process involved testing...
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