Transforming Rural India Foundation’s (TRIF) first one week long India Rural Colloquy rolls out on Zoom today. The sessions commencing from August 1st will wrap up on August 8th. TRIF supports NGOs working at the grassroots, works with governments, develops and delivers solutions for rural India.

Leading development practitioners, administrators, policy makers, philanthropists will be addressing the webinars. Analysis and critical reviews of development interventions will be discussed and policy shifts identified in order to create an equitable society with opportunities for all.

Here is a peep into what the sessions contain.

Going Forward | Rural 2025 (August 1, 5.30 pm)

Bharati Ramola, Sanjiv Phansarkar and R Venkataraman will be in conversation with Soumitra Pandey.

The first session will discuss the roadmap for Rural India in 2025. It will discuss aspirations of rural community and how to provide opportunities sans any gender bias for growth.

Gender Equality and Justice | Our Future (August 2, at 5.30 pm)

The session will be moderated by Madhu Krishna, Deputy Director at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The discussion will be on improving women’s participation in development programmes.

Women Collectives and Rural Economic Empowerment (3rd August 5.30 pm)

Anjani Kumar Singh, Senior Programme Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will host this session.  It will focus on a layout plan of transformative agenda for women collectives to advance social protection, economic empowerment in making of “New Rural”.

Sustainable Energy Unlock to Accelerating Rural Livelihoods (August 3, 7 pm)

Charanjit Singh, Dhruvi Shah & Harish Hande will be in conversation with Jeff Prins. This Session will address one of the key challenges of rural livelihoods related to access to predictable and affordable access to energy. This aspect is critical for creating local jobs and new opportunities around the farm/non-farm rural production system