Jekyll2026-05-05T07:17:51+00:00/feed.xmlFields of ViewWrite an awesome description for your new site here. You can edit this line in _config.yml. It will appear in your document head meta (for Google search results) and in your feed.xml site description.Reimagining Resilience2025-08-01T00:00:00+00:002025-08-01T00:00:00+00:00/newsletter/Newsletter_August_2025 We spent a day reimagining resilience. Here's how it went
What does it mean to collaboratively work towards better resilience?

How can diverse voices come together to reimagine social protections that adequately address vulnerability?
On July 18, 2025, Fields of View conducted “ಹೇಗೆ, ಏನು, ಎಷ್ಟು? | Hege, Yenu, Yeshtu: Reimagining Resilience” – a hands-on participatory workshop for exploring social protection measures towards building resilience. We were delighted to have 43 participants from over 30 organisations, spanning CSOs, research groups, foundations, and universities, gathered at the Student Christian Movement of India, Bengaluru for a day-long engagement with the factors that contribute to and mitigate vulnerability. 

For the workshop, we used a modified version of our flagship tool, E-QLT, a data-driven simulation tool that uses a system dynamics modelling approach to model a household based on its member composition, income, expenditure, exposure to shocks, and access to social protection schemes.  

Using the tool, participants quantitatively assessed the vulnerability of their chosen household over a 5-year period in terms of a Social Protection Score (SPS), a credit score-like metric that we developed to express household resilience across the dimensions of finance, health, and education.
Over the course of the day, participants evaluated the efficacy of existing schemes to build household resilience and protect against the risks and shocks that the household is susceptible to. They leveraged the platform to learn the contribution of the bouquet of social protection on building resilience.
“Tools like these are incredibly helpful in engaging governments on how schemes and policies are percolating on the ground. Also, being able to simulate our proposed solutions as scenarios gives us numbers and data that we can use to convince stakeholders about which approaches work and which don’t.”

- Participant
Altogether, participants experimented with 51 different variations of the social protection net. 18 combinations were more effective at building resilience than the existing bouquet of schemes offered by the government. Participants employed different strategies for each household: in some cases, they opted for a mix of in-kind transfers, cash transfers and insurance; for others, participants chose zero interest debts and unconditional cash transfers as a way of strengthening resilience. 

We hope that the conversations we started during the workshop can develop into a shared language around vulnerability, particularly one that considers leveraging tech for data-driven advocacy towards collaborative resilience building.  
“I found it to be a very useful tool to just generally think about what social protection can do and where it stops. One thing that I would like to see going forward is some engagement with how different instruments build resilience, given that the method of support delivery is very different between different mechanisms.” 

- Participant 
Seeing such a diverse group of organisations engage so deeply with social protection has armed us with the confidence to shift the needle around vulnerability. We want to explore partnerships with actors in the vulnerability and social protection space to explore how organisations can use their knowledge of and relationships with communities in championing change. 
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</html> ]]>Fields of View Turns 13!2025-02-01T00:00:00+00:002025-02-01T00:00:00+00:00/newsletter/Newsletter_February_2025 Fields of View Turns 13!
"Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay.”
-Basava
Birthdays provide us with the unique opportunity to get a measure of our existence thus far. As we complete 13 years of working at the frontier of better policymaking, we look at how far we have come, how the landscape has changed around us in this time, and what comes next as we continue to grow in this space.
Then & Now
We came into being with one foot in the future – not just the future as it was shaping up around us, but a future that we could be a part of imagining and building. Instead of treading the path of policy reform, we allowed ourselves the courage to ask, “what if?”.

Over the past 13 years, this way of asking questions has been our guiding light as we walk towards countless futures and possibilities. With partners from diverse landscapes, we have been building tools that help navigate complexity without losing out on the nuances of the problems they are addressing.  

Our tools have addressed a variety of problems across domains, including but not limited to civic issues, energy provision, transportation, and waste. The common thread holding all our work together is that of building resilience – of materials, people, and systems.  

In the last two years, we have started to look at our tools as components of an interconnected suite that enables groups, organisations, and institutions to collaboratively navigate their contextual needs, aspirations, and constraints.  

Today, we are building tools to shift the needle on how various actors engage with vulnerability. As always, this phase of our work started with us asking “what if”:
  • What if policies are co-created with the groups that they impact the most?
  • What if different stakeholders work collaboratively to address shared concerns?
  • What if we can make trade-offs explicit when making decisions?
  • What if there was a way to assess the real-world impact of policies on people?
All our work happens in collaboration with organisations that work on building resilience. We rely on their data and their relationship with the communities they work with to help policymaking become more nuanced.
Towards Tomorrow
We have seen some interesting trends in the policy and advocacy space over the last few years. Civil society organisations are using data on communities’ responses to shocks to demand greater consideration of their shifting needs. Local governments have been responding to this demand by trying to include more people’s participation in policymaking.  

In the coming years, we hope to see a surge in this trend of community members articulating their aspirations from governments, and policy makers engaging with the dynamic nature of vulnerability.   

Armed with the confidence that comes with years of watching our approach make a difference, over the next five years, we are committed to enabling better engagement between decision-makers and the people they represent.

There are three ways in which we want to do this:
Entrenchment

We want to embed our approaches and tools in existing processes of governments, civil society organisations, and private actors. We want to equip those who have their eyes and ears closest to the problem with the necessary tools, without reinventing their ways of working.

Collaboration

We want to intersect our approach and tools with other actors in the vulnerability space. We want everyone involved and invested in building resilience to speak a shared language around vulnerability and find ways to further one other's work without replicating it.

Research

Research is at the core of our work, enabling us to address the “hows” of the changes we all agree are required, and ensuring that our tools can deliver the impact we promise. We want to rigorously show the impact that these tools and our approach can have on policymaking.
None of this would be possible without the giants we walk with: our partners and  collaborators who deeply engage with the process and the outcomes; our asset makers and printers that go the extra mile to make our ideas a reality; our interdisciplinary team that actualises our shared vision day in and day out, and our friends who make themselves available at a moment’s notice to help with assets, tests, and perspectives.

To everyone that props us up – we cannot thank you enough. We could not have asked for a better group of people to push us in the best of ways. Thank you for seeing us through these thirteen years, and thank you for the years to come. 

Thank you,

Fields of View
“The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.”
-Alfred Tennyson (Ulysses)
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