Shaping Unique, Authentic, and Resilient Towns Nagrika is an indigenous non-partisan organization working in specific urban local contexts to shape small towns. Nagrika uses knowledge to enable better governance and citizen-led transformation in small cities Nagrika helps narrow the information and knowledge gap in the perceived understanding of small cities. We aim to bring small cities to the mainstream of the urban development discourse, contextualise the problems that small cities face and develop context specific solutions for them. To develop pragmatic and feasible solutions we identify the two-way relationship between citizens and their cities using a blend of local and global knowledge.