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how their respective wards measure up against standard benchmarks set by the government. The project looks at services like water supply, electricity, public health, public safety, civic amenities, transport and environment to arrive at a rating. It not only provides valuable information to urban planners and decision makers to streamline delivery of goods and services to different wards but also facilitates direct accountability of local administration and elected representatives to the urban citizens.
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across social and economic lines towards collating budget inputs from citizens. Participatory
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cities. ASICS is a health diagnostic for cities; the better a city scores, the better it stands to provide its citizens high quality of life in the medium to long term. ASICS aims to provide a common frame of reference for political and administrative leaders, business and academia, media and civil society, in different cities to converge on their agenda for transformative reforms.
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is a practical civic education program which aims at empowering the school children of urban India with the knowledge, skills and values necessary to develop a deep sense of ownership and responsibility towards their society and neighbourhood. The program informs the students of their rights and
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Aligned lesson plans are comprehensive civics and science themed lesson plans created for 6th – 10th graders for NCERT and 6-8th graders for the State Board syllabus with a focus on pedagogy. The objective of the lesson plans is to transform our civic classroom into activity based, experiential
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Janaagraha believes that improved quality of life is directly linked to improved quality of infrastructure, services, and citizenship. Janaagraha hence works at intersections to fix the city systems across law, policy, institutions with a specific focus on sectors such as
Climate Change, Gender
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problems but instead seeking to fix the system that can solve the problems. To achieve this objective, Janaagraha works with citizens to catalyse active citizenship in city neighbourhoods and with governments to institute reforms to city governance (popularly known as “City-Systems”).
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being paid (or taken), across Indian cities. IPaidABribe uses them to argue for improving governance systems and procedures, tightening law enforcement and regulation. Thereby reduce the scope for corruption while obtaining services from the government.
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The 5th edition of ASICS conducted in 2017 evaluated and scored India's cities on 89 objective parameters developed using the City-Systems framework and compares them with the benchmark cities of London, New York and
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responsibilities as citizens. It demystifies the local government, introduces the students to the relevance of the ward and stresses the need for citizen participation in local governance, thus, catalyzing change.
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project activity. During this process, children conduct water and waste audits, measure their carbon footprint, adopt a road among other actions and attempt to reduce their own footprint in their community.
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relevant information in the form of interesting content and a platform to discuss and debate issues of importance, Janaagraha is a platform for people to come together in support for systemic change.
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