Start on the ground
There are not enough people with intent where the problem actually is. Problems and solutions become clear on the ground; pick one school, one block, one village, and begin.
A recurring observation from trying to work on skill, education, and regional capability is simple and uncomfortable: there are not enough people on the ground with real intent to solve the problem. From a distance, everything looks like a policy paper or a thread. On the ground, the frictions are specific, the incentives are local, and the passive resistance of existing schedules and processes becomes obvious.
Problems and solutions only become clear there. That is why I keep returning to a practical rule: pick one school, one region, one district, one block, or one village, and start. Scale is a later question. Presence is the first one.
Where government has power and influence, it will be part of the problem space whether we like it or not, positively or negatively. Solutions that ignore that fact tend to stay beautiful and small, unless very strong social institutions can carry the load alone. Most of the time we need both: people who show up locally, and larger structures that do not pretend implementation is the same as a metric or a media cycle.
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