Youth & Urban Knowledge Production

Where youth power gets channelized through participatory action-research for creation of experience based knowledge that results in self and community transformation

 

URBANISM: SPATIAL UTOPIA AND CONTESTED REALITIES

Where documentation becomes intervention and demand for distributive justice and good governance leads research-based action

 

Healthy Cities Wealthy Cities

Where research based actions help change health seeking behaviours, creating healthier citizenry and wealthier communities...

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PUKAR is an independent research collective and urban knowledge producing institution, based in Mumbai that conducts multi-sectoral, cross-disciplinary, community based, participatory action research on issues related to urbanization and globalization.

400

communities reached in MMR

25000

photographs capturing/documenting city’s transformation

47

Tribal villages empowered

Ongoing Projects

Current Project

Strengthening Local Democracy (SLD)

Supported By: Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiative; Ongoing since 2015- After completing the first cycle of 6 years covering 23 villages, 17 Gram Panchayats and total population of 25440 in the…

Current Project

Parivartan

Supported By: Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies Foundation: Ongoing since 2023- Exploring the gender related attitudes of Adivasi children, wards of Ashramshalas  in the residential schools of Palghar district and to inculcate…

Current Project

Jal, Jungle, Jameen, Janwar, Jeevan

Supported By: The Greencliff Foundation;  Ongoing Since: 2024                                            …

Publications

Urban Design & Health…

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Divided infrastructure: legal exclusion…

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Maps (By Dr. Anita…

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PUKAR CASE STUDY -…

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City of Dreams – City of Hopes: Mumbai

Videos

What Youth Are Saying

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“There was an LIC Policy for which I needed to submit my Aadhaar Card. The E-Sevaks in my village recognised my need and very promptly had the card delivered to me – printed and laminated! I would have had to travel 25kms for this and now I don’t have to. The E-Sevaks are doing a great job and it makes me really happy that this is happening in my village.”

Hemlata Vaze, resident of Sakhare village from Palghar Taluka
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“I understood myself and my values through the Youth Fellowship Program. I learned to listen to people with a different point of view. My time as a fellow has taught me that respect is a two-way street.”

Vishal Jayram Patel, Youth Fellowship Project (YFP) 2015-2016 Alum-Mentor, 2017-2018
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“Through various exercises on leadership and skill-building, I believe I became more confident and self-assured. I decided to pursue my dreams of studying further and making a life of my own.”

Surekha Jadhav, YFP 2015-2016
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“ I experienced deep transformation within myself through the Youth Fellowship project. I had a chance to represent my research at Pune and Graduation event for which I consider myself very lucky”

Salman Khan YFP 2016-2017 Alum-Mentor 2017-2018
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“ I learnt so many thing like whatever we see and hear, we need to question it. This is very important for me. Now I follow it in my personal life.”

Kavita Saroj, YFP, 2015-2016

Our Partners

Local

Sir Ratan Tata Trust

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Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives

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Tata Institute of Social Sciences

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Edelgive Foundation

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Global

The Ford Foundation

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Max Planck institute of Religious and Ethnic Diversities

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Harvard School of Public Health

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