15 In-Depth Flagship Courses

A comprehensive, free course exploring poverty, growth, and economic transformation in developing nations — with deep focus on South Asia and rigorous academic foundations.

How policy gets made, implemented, and why it often doesn’t work — covering fiscal federalism, regulatory governance, budgeting, taxation, and Indian development.

The mechanics of collective decision-making — voting rules, rent-seeking, bureaucracy, commons governance and institutional design, with deep South Asian case material.

A comprehensive flagship on Indian livelihoods — rural (NRLM, SHGs, agriculture), urban (informal work, gig economy, vendors), and skills (Skill India, FLFPR). Evidence-driven and practitioner-oriented.

A comprehensive course on MEL systems for development professionals — from theory of change to adaptive management, with South Asia case studies and academic rigour.

A free, design-based course in causal inference — potential outcomes, the estimator toolkit from randomisation to synthetic control and causal machine learning, with R and Stata and Indian programme cases.

A flagship course on data visualization for development professionals — principles, design and tools to communicate data effectively for social impact, from visual encoding to M&E dashboards.

A free, hands-on Power BI flagship for South Asian development practitioners — build honest dashboards from real survey data: Power Query, star schemas, DAX and visualisation ethics, free-tier friendly.

Learn when and how to use AI tools in development M&E — from data collection and computer vision to algorithmic targeting and ethical frameworks. Evidence-based, with South Asian and African case studies.

A flagship course on feminist theory, gender & power, care work, law, movements, and development practice — with a deep South Asian focus.

How social-emotional competencies shape effective development practice — drawing on CASEL, SEE Learning, WHO Life Skills, Delhi’s Happiness Curriculum, Indian indigenous traditions and NEP 2020.

A practitioner’s guide to constitutional law and rights-based frameworks across South Asia — from basic structure doctrine to PIL, Article 21, digital rights and climate justice, grounded in real case law.

How India’s rights-based architecture — RTI, NREGA, Food Security, Forest Rights — creates enabling conditions for poor households to imagine and pursue better futures.

A rigorous course on development communication, ethical storytelling, and media impact — from exploitative imagery to participatory media, with a deep focus on Indian models.

A comprehensive journey through Gandhi’s political thought — from Swaraj and Satyagraha to Gram Swaraj and Trusteeship — with an interactive lexicon of 55+ annotated terms.