In June, we spoke  to Swati Pandey, the laureate of the 2018 Cartier Women’s Initiative (CWI) and Meena Vaidyanathan, the founder of  Niiti Consulting  and Swati’s CWI mentor about their mentor-mentee relationship. 1. How did your mentoring relationship start off back in September 2018 and how has it evolved since then?Swati (laureate):  In the beginning, it took us about two months to connect in person. We connected much better once we had met in person than over emails. Si

One in five people globally report having experienced some form of violence or harassment at work, but what are factors that make some workers more vulnerable than others? Based on the 2021 World Risk Poll report  'Safe at Work? Global experiences of violence and harassment' , we know that while men are marginally more exposed at a global level, for a third of women who reported violence or harassment at work, there was a sexual element to this experience. The  second World

“Customer is king” was (and is) the refrain one often heard as being the ultimate guiding principle, especially in service-oriented businesses. My experience at HCL Tech and translating Vineet Nayar’s philosophy of “Employees First Customer Second” into action was a new paradigm shift in the early to mid-2000s. Subsequently, we have heard many industry stalwarts including Richard Branson talking about putting employees first (especially in service industries) as the customer

A whopping 90% of India's workforce is comprised of unskilled workers. Skilling them is the only way they can aim to improve incomes. Aajeevika Bureau and niiti consulting invite you to a Roundtable discussion on that aims to discuss the findings of, 'On the Job Training Programme' impact study. The participatory deliberation between experts in this space, we hope, will result in a clear direction of how this model can be adapted widely across other geographies, and diffe

Evidence Building For Achieving SDGs –  Digital Development and Inclusion Feb 12 – 14, 2020 India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

On March 16, we conducted a workshop on Documenting for Operational Efficiency for field staff and project coordinators of Save The Children in Delhi. We helped them get a hands-on understanding of efficient ways of data collection and documentation methods with specific examples from their ongoing project.

8 th March was lot of fun and excitement. Doers’ Labs added another feather to its cap “workshop on women safety”. Without using any martial arts techniques or carrying any weapons, with women of Dimensions Data we created a new safety mantra ……BREAK…..Break the silence, Recognise risks, Empower, Aware and Know safety techniques. The 2 hrs workshop gave us a group of friends who shared, laughed over experiences, discovered safety equipment like safety pins and key rings and p