The CEC is an institutional platform for all likeminded change agents from government organisations, public utilities and civil society to champion transformation of the governance of critical services from within. Building on the experience of the Change Management Group(CMG), the CEC works with the vision of ‘Secure Water and Food for All, Forever.’ and a mission to mitigate climate challenges, water and food crisis, through a paradigm shift in water management and service delivery engendering individual and organisational change.
CEC now has a collective critical mass to work as a pressure group, straddling both the formal and informal space, and the opportunity to influence the purpose and practice of many public organisations and catalysing change in each one of them.
To embed and spearhead evolving change experiments to improve service delivery from within (like the Maraimalai Nagar Declaration), a CMG was formed in Tamil Nadu. The CMG is a voluntary core group comprised of individuals from across specialisations, hierarchy, social or geographic groupings. The CMG in various departments of Tamil Nadu (Watsan, water resources, watershed, agriculture, livestock) have uniformly adopted a mandate.