In IIED’s ‘Make Change Happen’ podcasts, our researchers and guests discuss key global development challenges and explain what we are doing to support positive change.

This special guest episode, produced by the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), looks at the work of a social network in Delhi that delivered food relief during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Delhi Coordinated Relief Network succeeded in reaching some of the most vulnerable neighbourhoods in the city during an unprecedented crisis.

More than 40 organisations combined forces to get food to as many families as possible on a sustained basis. They were worker federations, unions, societies, trusts and neighbourhood associations – on their own they were struggling to procure food and to get food to families when restrictions on moving around were in place. Together, they could share knowledge, map where the food was going and identify any areas that were being missed.