The aim of this paper is to describe the primary changes and development that outlined the history of Colonial Punjab and to narrate grassroots and provincial perspectives on the changes. I examine with a blend of grassroots and provincial perspectives by contextualizing actual historical events...

Malaria continues to be a prominent global public health challenge, in part because of the slow population adoption of recommended preventive and curative behaviors. This paper tests the effectiveness of two service delivery models designed to promote recommended behaviors, including prompt...

Firms are often criticized for their reluctance to embrace sustainability in their business strategies. Frugal innovation is a recent concept that represents a new way for firms to serve underserved customers in developing countries while also promoting sustainability. Based on three cases of...

This paper presents a case study of the Honey Bee Network fs decentralized model for collecting, verifying and disseminating grassroots innovations and provides a roadmap for its replication in Africa. The Honey Bee Network brings together governmental and non-governmental institutions, members...

The Gandhian idea of governance and development at the community level is a people-centered approach that combines a number of activities to ensure people (rural people) access to relevant information so that they shall collaborate and participate in development. Through information and...

Grass-roots party contacts with voters have become an important feature of recent presidential campaigns. Using respondent reports of party contacts from the 1956-2008 time series of American National Election Studies survey, this paper describes the increase in contacting of the elections of...

Grassroots innovation is growing and spreading throughout the world as a social innovation in the elaboration of modern and traditional knowledge, formal and non-formal innovation, as well as individual and institutional innovators. Grassroots Innovation shows how poor and marginalized groups...

The theories of thinkers like Gandhi and Nyerere though not postulated within the present times can still be helpful in some areas in combating ecological and socio-political predicaments. Gandhi’s concept of Sarvodya (universal uplift of all) and Nyerere’s concept of Ujamaa (familyhood or...