Teaching Notes: Challenges at Jatan Sansthan: can design thinking help the NPO?

Dr Brijwasi, Founder and Executive Director of Jatan Sansthan (Jatan) ^[1], grappled with a pressing concern in January 2023. He and his colleagues had established Jatan, a not-for-profit organization in the city of Udaipur, in the state of Rajasthan ^[2] in India, with a mission to work at the grassroots level with rural and resource-poor communities across the State. They were firm believers in the power of community participation and the potential of the youth and women to be catalysts for change. Their goal was to empower these communities, particularly the youth and women, to engage in policy formulation...