Sheela Patel

Networking is seen as the apple pie in development … everyone says it’s good and organizations are urged to do it, regardless of what categories of association or organization they are part of. In development, …

Data in the sphere of development has been effectively used for big picture questions like measuring levels of poverty and malnutrition or assessing the health and educational standards of a country or region’s population. For …

I loved Lisa Jordan’s opinion piece on foundations and risk. However, while Lisa discusses the basis for revoking a grant, I think it is critical to reflect more deeply on how choices are made by …

One of the most important concepts in the development debate is trusteeship – the capacity of community leadership to make accountable choices, to reflect on these choices and make course corrections when necessary, and to …

At the Skoll World Forum in Oxford in March,[1] the main subject of debate was how to make more resources accessible for development. The general view was that neither government money nor philanthropy alone could …

The municipality of Mumbai and the state government of Maharashtra may have been ‘the enemy’ for Mumbai’s pavement dwellers, but they were also crucial to solving their problems of homelessness and insecurity. Before the poor …

C K Prahalad’s Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid has coined a new term, BOP – bottom of the pyramid. Suddenly, TV programmes have business leaders spouting BOP lingo, and claiming they’ve been ‘doing’ …