School of Climate & Sustainability (SoCS)

The School of Climate and Sustainability (SoCS) aims to address India’s escalating water crisis by fostering a “One Water” consciousness—a unified understanding of water as a shared, interconnected resource that requires coordinated action across institutions and communities. This strategic orientation forms the bedrock for transformative interventions that enhance water security and climate resilience.

The approach empowers middle managers—the critical bridge between state-level planning and ground-level execution—by unlocking their agency, strengthening leadership, and facilitating behavioural shifts at the district, block, and cluster levels. Simultaneously, it seeks to drive inter-departmental and inter-ministerial convergence, aligning mandates, schemes, and budgets across five key departments to deliver integrated water solutions.

At the heart of SoCS’ is a commitment to system strengthening anchored in community ownership and participation. re-engineering processes, investing in leadership development, and nurturing distributed governance to sustain long-term change. This includes supporting government officials to design and implement responsive, scalable, and community-driven models for water governance.

Through a targeted focus on water source sustainability, SoCS is building proof-of-concept interventions across five agro-climatic zones that address:

Through Leadership Development of Middle Managers