From August 13-15, charcha2021 will host 9 plenary sessions and 11 parallel events covering a broad range of topics in the development sector including health, education, rural development etc.
The/Nudge Forum has announced charcha2021, a convening with over 300 global leaders and key stakeholders coming together for India’s development.
From August 13-15, charcha2021 will host 9 plenary sessions and 11 parallel events covering a broad range of topics in the development sector including health, education, rural development, energy and environment, gender, equal cities, skill development, water and sanitation, philanthropy, resilient societies and collaboration.
The plenary sessions include talks by: Amitabh Kant (NITI Aayog), Dr R S Sharma (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare), Dr Devi Shetty (Narayana Health), Lakshmi Puri (United Nations), Renu Karnad (HDFC), Amit Chandra (Bain Capital), Ashish Dhawan (Central Square Foundation), Sonam Wangchuk (SECMOL), Prof K VijayRaghavan (Principal Scientific Adviser, GoI), Rohini Nilekani (Rohini Nilakeni Philanthropies), Swati Piramal (Piramal Swasthya), Anu Aga (Thermax), Shaheen Mistri (Teach for India), Prashanth Prakash (Accel, Advisor to Karnataka CM), Meena Ganesh (Portea) etc. India’s foremost bureaucrats, business and community leaders, will be present as panelists and speakers in various sessions of charcha 2021. Co-hosts of the event currently include Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India; National Skill Development Corporation; Rockefeller Foundation; Piramal Foundation; Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies; Omidyar Network India; Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy; Central Square Foundation; Dalberg and Water Aid.
Atul Satija, Founder and CEO of The/Nudge Foundation said, “With COVID-19 having wiped away years of our developmental progress in weeks, the ability to reinvent ourselves and rebuild is more critical than ever before. With the development sector grappling with shrinking resources, the way forward requires a coming together of all stakeholders – nonprofits, government, corporates, foundations, academia and philanthropists. Charcha2021 is where we all come together, for India.”
Shweta Totapally, Partner, Dalberg Advisors, who is one of the co-host organizations at charcha 2021 said, “We are excited to be part of Charcha 2021 and come together with stellar cross-industry stakeholders to support India’s developmental journey. In curating the gender track this year, we are focused on what it would take for us to share a more gender-equitable world for all women and for gender and sexual minorities. We are reconstructing the gender discussion to be more inclusive and deeper by bringing together individuals from different spheres of life and work to serve as inspirational thinkers and agents of change. Our objective is to develop more nuanced ways to represent communities in order to advance the mainstreaming of a gender-inclusive agenda. Convenings like these help broaden the collective consciousness in a way that could inform more holistic and gender-equitable policy and actions.”
Charcha2020 was the inaugural convening of The/Nudge Forum last May, for all stakeholders in India’s development sector to come together and chart a course for the country’s sustainable development.
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