DESTA conducted a systems convening at the Dialogues on Development Management organised by the Indian School of Development Management (ISDM) in New Delhi, where different philanthropies and nonprofits came together to consider why…
DESTA worked on a collaborative project, funded by GIZ India, with EY and AHA Solar, under the aegis of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)’s Solar Cities Programme.…
While many organisations have adopted a systems change lens in their work, the lack of coordination among them is hampering their collective impact. In this article, Mihir highlights what needs…
Mihir was at COP 28 in Dubai to participate on behalf of the Global Peace Initiative of Women, a Global movement on encouraging unity among the spiritual traditions and blending…
DESTA worked with SELCO Foundation to model the economics of Decentralized Renewable Energy vs. electricity from a Grid for a prototype health facility located in a remote area. The objective…
DESTA is working with SELCO Foundation on capacity building of their teams on systems thinking and enabling teams to apply the tools to selected programmes to build systemic strategies. These…
DESTA worked with Reap Benefit (RB) to conduct a study on how implementing a Team of Teams (ToT) structure in their organization has created impact, both in the desired and…
This episode of Nature Talks, by the students of Natural Resources & Governance at TISS, Hyderabad, offers an engaging exploration of system dynamics, a field of modeling complex systems. It…
A Calendar has been launched by DESTA for the year 2024. The calendar contains illustrations and some key concepts about Systems Thinking, which will help you to get familiar with…
We have published multiple articles over the last 6 months. Most recently, a couple of articles by Kabir highlighting why climate adaptation is the need of the hour and why…
Over the year, we have been using participatory systems thinking and modelling to build a models of groundwater-agriculture-climate linkages in India, partnering with CInI, Sustain+ and ACWADAM. Using participatory modelling,…
We are working with Raintree Foundation to create a new program around regenerative agriculture. Raintree Foundation is applying systems thinking for end-to-end program design and implementation plan. DESTA has supported Raintree to…
We worked with the Center for Social Justice and Philanthropy (CSJP) at ISDM to synthesize their year-long research outcomes on the challenges in philanthropic giving. The work revolved around creating…
Mihir took a workshop on applied systems thinking for international students at the School for International Training, Nepal. This was attended by 10 students from different countries who are working…
Using systems thinking, we have been soliciting inputs from farmer federations across two geographies on how climate resilience and environmental sustainability can be enhanced through CInI ’s Lakhpati Kisan Program.…
Kartik Bitra joined DESTA as an Associate in June 2023. Kartik has a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Product Design. After his education, he pursued India Fellow Social…
Anshuman Mruthunjaya, who joined DESTA in April 2021 has secured admission to the Master’s in Public Policy Program at Oxford on a Weidenfeld Hoffman Leadership scholarship, which is global scholarship…
DESTA conducted the climate pathfinder series workshop, hosted by AVPN, in Mumbai on the 17th-18th of January 2023. This was the first climate capacity-building program for decision-makers of philanthropic organizations…
Mihir and Kabir published articles on climate change at India Development Review as part of their article series that highlights a diverse set of solutions, policy research, and technological innovations…
Mihir delivered a guest lecture on System Thinking and System Dynamics at PGP-Sustainable Management, IIM Lucknow Noida Campus. Mihir covered various nuances of applying Systems thinking and Modeling to real world systems…
DESTA kicked off a collaborative project with partners Sustain+ and ACWADAM to model the interactions between agriculture, groundwater aquifers and agricultural pumps, including solar pumps, and use it to aid…
Mihir was on a panel at the COP 27 event Open Natural Ecosystems for People, Carbon, and Biodiversity hosted by ATREE at the India Pavilion. Mihir presented on application of Systems Thinking…
A Guest Lecture of Decision Sciences on 'SYSTEMS THINKING & MODELLING IN REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS' was conducted by Mihir Mathur at the College of Defence Management, Secunderabad for HDMC participants.…
Kabir and Anshuman carried out a capacity building of the team working on food systems at CEEW over 2 days. The sessions covered basic and intermediate tools of systems thinking…
DESTA worked with SELCO Foundation to map selected programmes. These were Resilient Micro Businesses and Agricultural Cold Storage. DESTA facilitated workshops with the project team members to map their projects…
DESTA facilitated a 2-day workshop at HCL Foundation for the leadership teams of its flagship programs HCLSamuday and Clean Noida - HCL Foundation. In the workshop participants explored newer ways of collective thinking…
DESTA kick-started a collaborative project, funded by GIZ, with EY India and AHAsolar Pvt. Ltd. as consortium partners under the RE Cities / Solar City Programme of the Ministry of…
DESTA completed its 4th cohort of the online courses on systems thinking and system dynamics modeling covering a total of 30+ participants. Responding to the emerging need, DESTA launched its first…
DESTA conducted a two-day online workshop for the faculty of KJ Somaiya Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development. The workshop was aimed at introducing the concepts and tools of systems…
DESTA Launched its blog on Medium to write about the experiences of applying systems thinking and modeling to real world systems. The blog posts cover a range of topics including…
Kabir made a presentation on the Application of System Dynamics Modelling for Policy Planning, at the Indian Energy System Transition: New Approaches Event of the Economics of Energy Innovation and…
DESTA developed a supply chain simulation model for a healthcare company in India. This model was used to conduct a workshop with their team to assess the type of scenarios…
Kabir and Mihir were invited to conduct a seminar at Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation to speak about DESTA's work on systems thinking and the journal paper on climate adjacency. Read…
Kabir and Mihir were invited by CEEW (Council on Energy Environment and Water) to give a talk on the recently published paper, ‘Identifying Climate Adjacency for Enhancing Climate Action Using…
The paper, ‘Identifying Climate Adjacency for Enhancing Climate Action Using Systems Thinking and Modelling’ was published in the journal Systems (MDPI). The paper documents systems stories from four case studies where we applied…
Mihir and Kabir took a Masterclass titled ‘Viewing Adaptation through a Complex Systems Perspective’ in which, through a mix of theory and real-world examples, they demonstrated how adaptation to climate…
DESTA engaged with the cohort of 47 leaders from India at the Leaders with Purpose, exclusive civic leadership program by TCS Empowers (CSR arm of TC). Their program is designed to…
DESTA has launched online courses on systems thinking and system dynamics modelling. These immersive courses are instructor led and synchronous. Spread over three weeks they offer the participants to learn…
DESTA conducted systems thinking sessions for the cohort at Dasra Social Impact Alumni Engagement program 2020-21. Mihir Mathur and Kabir Sharma facilitated three sessions along with Mr Arun Maria on systems…
Mihir Mathur took two online guest lectures at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (Noida Campus) for students of Post Graduate Programme in Sustainable Management. The lectures demonstrated applications of systems thinking and system…
DESTA is working with the team at Sustain+ to develop a systemic understanding of their work on implementing solar pumps in rural villages. How solar pumps would impact the livelihood…
We are again proud sponsors of this year's International System Dynamics Conference (ISDC) which will happen (virtually) in July 2021. Last year's virtual conference recorded the highest ever attendance and…
We have started a series on systems thinking on our youtube channel with an aim to educate people on the method of systems thinking and its applications. There are two…
A report on the national energy model that DESTA built in collaboration with CSTEP has been published. This report highlights the key model assumptions and what future scenarios it produces.…
DESTA kicked-off its engagement with CInI (Collectives for Integrated Livelihood Initiatives), an initiative of Tata Trusts, to enable them to apply systems thinking into their program. The aims of this…
The report 'Identifying Climate Adjacency: Key findings from four case studies and a synthesis' was released by Rohini Nilekani. The report is an outcome of DESTA's engagement with Rohini Nilekani…
As part of our engagement with the India Climate Collaborative, DESTA carried out climate adjacency workshops with Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT), ATE Chandra Foundation and Edelgive Foundation to understand the…
The first-year students of PGP - Sustainable Management, IIM Lucknow interacted with Mihir as a part of the course ‘Systems Thinking’ by Prof. Dipti Gupta. He discussed how modeling, which…
Mihir taught an online course on introduction to systems thinking and system dynamics modeling to MA students of Natural Resource Governance at TISS, Hyderabad. The students learned making BOTGs, Causal Loop…
Mihir taught an online course on systems thinking for social change to students at Indian School of Development Management, Noida. This year the students learned the tools of systems thinking…