The extraordinary moment we are living in requires us to build new ways of seeing the world and calls for developing resilience within ourselves, in our communities, and in our organizations.

Written by: Maitreyi Bordia, Daselaine Tinsley & Ibrahim Ali Khan The terms “sustainable” and “inclusive” are being commonly (and often loosely) applied to any positive interventions towards the response and recovery from the pandemic. What does “inclusive recovery” mean? Here we explore a specific type of intervention through social enterprises (SEs) using...

My work with IMAGO as a summer fellow has been a very enriching one. Coming from a developing country and having worked in the public sector has let me experience first-hand what IMAGO calls “the missing middle,” that space, where neither the top-down nor the bottom-up approach can reach that is most...

I was inspired to join IMAGO Global Grassroots when Isabel spoke in one of my classes in the Spring. After a semester of very technical economics and policy content, it was refreshing to hear her perspective on working both at the highest levels of large organisations and closer to the coalface with...

I joined IMAGO on July 1st, 2020, not fully knowing what to expect. I was working with the Patient Care Intervention Center (PCIC) in Houston but given the dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases in the US, the summer fellowship was going to be remote. The pandemic has sent the world on a...

What does it mean to be an IMAGO fellow? For me it meant human proximity, care for people, co-creation and the kind of leadership that I hope to practice one day. It was inspiration, adaptation and personal stories that boost admiration. Going out of my comfort zone, moving from data to people...

I didn’t make it to Gujarat, India, but thanks to modern technology, I got to work remotely with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) as an IMAGO Summer Fellow. SEWA is a union of informal women workers in India with over 2 million members, many of whom own and work in social enterprises,...

The summer of 2020 was a strange time, not just in India but across the world. COVID 19 had just changed the face of the world and how we did things. Lives were lost and economies fell. The MOVE intervention was continuing in SEWA (Self Employed Women’s Association), India’s largest organized movement...

We were very excited to find this graphic in  “The Gates Foundation Gender Equality Strategy”. Why? Because it reflects so well what IMAGO has learned over the past 4 years working with grassroots organizations and self-help groups in the field.  This work has solidified our vision of turning development practices upside-down through...