The coalition will focus on strong messaging within communities to remove concerns around vaccination by increasing awareness through campaigns, reducing hesitancy through tailored messaging to address different target groups, and by increasing access for the marginalised groups. Camps are a good way of getting people to develop collective confidence.
Started with the objective to enable entrepreneurs fighting Covid-19, ACT Grants is now working to tackle some of the existing mainstream challenges in the country.
I expect my own industry, impact investing, to become significantly more mainstream globally
Illustration by Raj Verma
The end of one year and the beginning of another is a good time to take stock of the time gone by. But where does one begin in a year that has upended nearly every aspect of our lives? 2020 was at once a reality check and a time of reckoning. It confronted us with problems we had never imagined and taught us lessons to last a lifetime.
Covid-19 laid bare the vulnerability of several sections of our population which were disproportionately affected on economic and health fronts. Most of these people are from the bottom 60 per cent of India s income distribution, the lower and lower middle-income segments, which we refer to as the Next Half Billion.