
Uniting for change: the enablers and barriers to collective action
There's growing wisdom on what enables collective action and what could be barriers to it, having the right partners and goals are critical to its success.
Khushboo Awasthi is Designer at the Punjab Education Collective and the Chief Operating Officer of ShikshaLokam, an education leadership mission in India. In partnership with state governments and leading civil society organisations, ShikshaLokam catalyses education leadership development programmes, orchestrates collective action and builds open-source technology solutions to drive change at scale. It works on multiple projects across India from Andra Pradesh to Punjab. Khushboo also co-founded Mantra4Change in 2013, a non- profit driving systemic transformation within the Indian public school system.
There's growing wisdom on what enables collective action and what could be barriers to it, having the right partners and goals are critical to its success.
Effective collective action has the potential to drive policy change at local, national and international levels and spur the push to net zero.