Agenda
Multistakeholder Day
Workshop | 09:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Building future-ready finance function for mission driven organizations
This workshop brings senior finance leaders together to explore evolving FCRA and CSR regulations, emerging sector trends, and the growing role of AI in finance leadership. Through peer exchange and real-world case insights, participants will examine how to strengthen governance, improve decision-making, and build resilient, future-ready finance functions that enable sustained impact.
Panel | 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Building Resilient Organizations: Prioritizing Mental Wellbeing for the Social Sector
Social sector leaders often prioritise communities while deprioritising their own wellbeing. This session explores how practitioner mental health directly shapes organisational resilience and long-term impact. Through dialogue with key stakeholders, this session will examine pathways for embedding structured wellness support into organisational systems and start a dialogue for prioritizing wellbeing for the social sector.
Panel | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Place-Led Futures: Pathways to Climate-Resilient Development
As climate risks intensify, top-down and siloed responses are proving insufficient. This session explores how place-based and bioregional approaches enable adaptive, community-led and regenerative development. Panelists will discuss practical pathways, enabling conditions, and the mindsets needed to shift from fragmented programmes to place-led transformation.
Gamified Interactive Session | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Making a Case for Grassroots Giving: A Decision Lab
Grassroots philanthropy is often seen as high-risk and hard to scale—yet it drives some of the most resilient impact. This experiential Decision Lab invites funders, intermediaries, and practitioners to navigate real-world dilemmas in grassroots giving through scenario-based decision-making. The session surfaces the trade-offs, assumptions, and choices that shape funding decisions in uncertain, on-the-ground contexts.
Roundtable | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Setting Direction Through Collective Learning: Towards a Disability-Inclusive Framework
A closed-door session bringing together leaders across the disability ecosystem to center lived experience, identify systemic gaps, and explore pathways for stronger coordination and long-term impact. Focused discussions will examine skilling and livelihood pathways, ecosystem capacity building, and collaborative action toward a disability-inclusive India@2047.
Panel | 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Institutionalising Resilience: The Role of Local Governance and Leadership
Drawing on experiences from field experiences , the discussion brings together practitioners and civil society actors to examine how local governments, sub-regional institutions, and community stewardship can work in concert to address interconnected challenges across sectors such as waste, heat, and water. Beyond showcasing promising practices, the session surfaces common gaps in planning, coordination, and financing, and reflects on what it takes to move from fragmented interventions to systemic resilience. Anchored in the broader theme of local leadership for climate-resilient economies, the conversation underscores why empowering local institutions and communities is essential to sustaining inclusive, long-term climate action.
Lunch and Networking | 12:30 – 1:30 PM
Panel | 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Reframing Disaster Response: Narrative, Philanthropy, and the Shift to Resilience
Recurring climate shocks continue to reshape livelihoods and local economies, yet disaster response remains largely short-term and relief-driven. This session explores how funding patterns and public narratives shape disaster systems, influencing what preparedness and recovery efforts receive sustained support. Bringing together funders, practitioners, media, and government, the discussion will examine how shifting storytelling and capital can move disaster response from reactive relief to long-term, community-led resilience.
Panel | 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM
Whose Leadership Counts? Conversations on Visibility, Evidence, and Inclusion
Climate-resilient economies are shaped as much by narratives as by action. This session explores how dominant framings of climate leadership often overlook locally rooted actors and knowledge, shaping visibility, credibility, and funding. Drawing on insights from women and marginalised leaders, the discussion will examine how storytelling and evidence can be reimagined to enable more inclusive, representative climate action.
Roundtable | 02:45 PM - 04:15 PM
Learning Circle - WomenLead India Alliance
Convened by Alliance partners, Dasra and SAWF-IN, the Alliance roundtable brings partners working with women and girls together to reflect on priorities for 2026. Through peer dialogue, shared reflections, and a practical resource exchange, the session aims to strengthen relationships, surface key challenges, and shape how the Alliance can best support the year ahead.
Panel | 03:15 PM - 04:00 PM
Grounded Climate Action: Strengthening Community Stewardship for Local Governance
Positioned within the Governance pillar of Climate Day, this action-oriented session explores how community stewardship translates into practice. It highlights examples such as community trust funds and field experiences from regions like the Northeast to show how locally governed financial and institutional models anchor long-term conservation. The discussion also connects on-ground learning to an emerging IUCN motion, examining how aligned governance, finance, and policy can strengthen locally led conservation and climate resilience.
High Tea & Networking | 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM
Panel | 04:15 PM - 05:00 PM
From Awareness to Action: Messages, Audience, and Change
Positioned within the Narrative Hub of Climate Day at Dasra Philanthropy Week, this session interrogates a persistent tension in the climate and impact ecosystem: why does awareness so often fail to translate into action? Rather than offering a checklist of communication strategies, it reframes messaging as a question of power, audience assumptions, and systemic design. This conversation brings together research, culture, youth engagement, and media production perspectives. Through grounded examples from data-led campaigns, participatory art practice, youth mobilization platforms, and creator ecosystems, the session examines how narratives are shaped not only by creativity but by institutional incentives, funding structures, and definitions of impact.
Ceremony | 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Dasra Social Impact Leadership Program (2025-2026) Graduation Ceremony
Celebrate the culmination of the Dasra Social Impact Leadership Program (2025-2026) journey with a graduation ceremony. This event will honor the achievements, growth, and collaborations fostered throughout the program.
There’s a lot
happening at DPW 2026.
Exciting programming, speakers, thought-provoking panels and workshops, curated networking, and more.