Failure Stories

Failing Forward for Better Outcomes
Huda Jaffer and Rachita Misra, SELCO Foundation discussing ‘How can we look at failures with the perspective of learning?’

Why Clean Cooking is a Chronic Failure – Veena Joshi & Priya Karve
Across developing countries, some 3 billion people still use traditional cooking methods. For decades, governments and NGOs have been trying to get improved or clean

Failures in Energy Access
The Importance of Learning the Ecosystem, the Process, and the End User

Why Water Access Models Fail?
Learing to Build Models for Micro and Macro Ecosystems

Failures in Education
Learning how to Scale Sustainably

Overcoming Political, Social and Personal Challenges
“Anshu Gupta and Bezwada Wilson on their Journey from Marginalised, Oppressed Communities to Leaders in Social Impact and Agents of Change “

Failures in Livelihood
Learning to for Growth and Resilience

Failures in Entrepreneurship and Investment
A New Understanding of Risk and Capital

Types of Failure
Understanding the Causes and Contexts of Failure to Avoid the Blame Game

The Need for Identifying and Capturing Failures
How do we Celebrate, Dissect and Maximize the Learning from Failures?

I/F 2018 Speaker: TM Krishna
On Using Music to Subvert his Failures to the Craft and to Cover also find Success.

Failures of Built Environments
Lessons in Autonomy, Ownership and Expression

What Counts as Failure, What can One Claim as Success?
Vijay Mahajan and MS Sriram on the Failures they Faced in Building a Micro-credit Model for the Poor

I/F 2018 Speaker: Bezwada Wilson
On the Insidious Relationship between Society, Caste, and Failure.

Recovering from Mission Failure
Harish Hande and Thomas Pullenkav Dissect Two Big Failures in the SELCO Journey

I/F 2018 Speaker: Rohini Nilekani
On the Importance of Talking about Failure in the Space of Equity, Inclusion, and Bettering the World

Failures in Philanthropy
A Rich Range of Failures that Plague us in Philanthropy

Failures in Health
Redesigning Rural Health Delivery Models to Bridge Last Mile Gaps