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Resources
Our Resources hub brings together knowledge and insights from CoLab’s work across women’s empowerment, livelihoods, environmental sustainability, and community development. This curated collection includes sample reports, research papers, case studies, blogs, and partner feedback—each reflecting our commitment to evidence-driven design, practical learning, and meaningful impact. Whether you’re looking to explore new ideas, understand our approach, or apply structured and insight-led practices to your own programs, these resources offer guidance, inspiration, and a transparent view into how we collaborate to create lasting change.
Sample reports
We maintain a curated collection of sample research and evaluation reports that reflect our approach to inquiry, analysis, and storytelling. These reports demonstrate how evidence can be transformed into practical, actionable insights.
If you’d like to explore these samples or understand how our research can support your organisation, reach out to us and we’ll be happy to share them.
Research Papers
Research produced by the CoLab team, exploring themes across education, gender, climate resilience, community engagement, and program design. Each paper blends rigorous methodology with field insights, offering fresh perspectives and new knowledge for the development sector. These papers reflect our commitment to contributing to the ecosystem’s understanding of what works and why.
Evidence in Education
This literature review aims to bring awareness on the importance of evidence in education among various organization in the education ecosystem. This paper covers topics like what is evidence, why is evidence important and how can you implement evidence informed programs.
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Enriching Learning Experiences
This research article aims to present the elements of a child’s environment, based on the volume of research done by educationists, teachers, and organisations, that make school and learning lessons pleasurable for every child. These elements are studied at the school, classroom, and community levels.
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Impact of School Leadership and District Leadership on Student Outcomes
A comprehensive overview of the best practices–substantiated and validated by evidence-based research across the world –that school and district leaders can employ to improve student learning outcomes.
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School Reintegration
This literature review gives insights about areas of concern after lengthy school closure and ways to address these challenges, so that we can effectively bring students back to school. It is important to keep in mind that most of this research is from North American and European contexts.
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Monitoring and Evaluation
The world we live in today is fraught with challenges across the sectors of health, education, livelihoods, gender, human rights, among others. In the past two years, many of them have been amplified as the pandemic swept across the globe, leaving in its wake a trail of disruption, forever altering lives for many.
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Case studies
In-depth stories that trace how CoLab supported organisations to tackle complex problems and strengthen their programs. These case studies offer a behind-the-scenes view into our process, from understanding a challenge, to designing solutions, testing prototypes, gathering evidence, and achieving outcomes at scale. They are meant to inspire practitioners who are looking to deepen impact through structured, evidence-informed approaches.
Blogs
Short, reflective pieces from our team on learnings from the field, emerging questions, design experiments, and stories that often don’t make it into formal reports. The blog is a space where we share ideas in progress and spark conversations around evidence, design, implementation, and innovation.
Leaning Tower of Pisa | What makes it stand strong?
Do you know the reason for how the leaning tower of Pisa is standing strong? Are all the interventions in…
Collective interest is the way to build evidence in education | #Evidence 01
CoLab dreams of ‘a global community for education equity’. Because we believe that it is where everything starts. A shared…
Should we make education work?
Time to decide which question we are exploring an answer for! Pause and reflect on these 3 questions before…
Is research at the top of the hierarchy?
Is education being driven by the research or researchers? Around 8% of the total workforce is in the education…
Highlights of Education in India 2022
Digitalisation of Education The thrust for greater digitalization of education has been made by the government through several initiatives, such…
Holistic Education – at School or Home?
Much different than making school home or making home a school. The future of education is here or it…
Does “Mentoring” in the education sector make sense?
This is a question Rafi asked me recently at work. Rafi leads Mantra4Change’s team that works with district-level leadership in…
Kalaburagi’s Stint with Enabling Enriching Learning Experiences at Scale
*Pragatiya Hejje is an Annual District-level Celebration Event for School Leaders in Karnataka Today, at the lunch table at the…
The Future of Communities: Sustainability and Innovation at the Heart of Resilience
Introduction In a world where uncertainty is a constant, the resilience of a community depends on its ability to adapt…
From Challenges to Change: Creating Resilient Communities Through Innovation and Inclusion
Introduction In a world where uncertainty is a constant, the resilience of a community depends on its ability to adapt…
Sustainable Solutions for Stronger Communities: The Power of Inclusive Innovation
Introduction In a world where uncertainty is a constant, the resilience of a community depends on its ability to adapt…
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