We co-convened and co-led the formation of the Bhavishya Alliance.

The convening phase ended in 2006 with a three-month, full-time Change Lab that brought together Indian government officials, company managers, and non-governmental organisation leaders to create the “Bhavishya [Future in Sanskrit] Alliance” aimed at cutting in half India’s extraordinarily high level of child malnutrition.

From the Bhavishya Learning History

“Standing on a small hill, looking at sun-set, I asked myself: If I was born in pre-independence era, what would I have done? I recall one of the addresses to [our Lab Team]. While doing business, we cannot close our eyes to millions of people who have no food and thousands of babies that are dying every minute owing to malnutrition. This is not a simple problem that can be nailed through a fishbone or pareto analysis… it is the consequence of a larger systemic failure that includes all… the government, communities & the business world. And it will take all the players to shift the current reality.” Member of Lab Team

“I am clearer than ever that all the challenges we discuss as being ‘in the field’ are in fact present in this room. If we want to know why communities are hostile to healthcare workers, then the answer is in the room. If we want to know why care programmes in the past have been unsustainable, then the answer is in the room. If we want to know why there is low trust in the malnutrition system between different actors, then the answer is in the room. And if we want to change the system then we must also change what is in the room.” Indian Facilitator