Women’s Health needs a Life-course Investment Lens
Women’s health is often discussed as a set of isolated biological events: puberty, pregnancy, delivery, menopause. While these investments towards…
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The M&E Funding Gap: A Structural Mismatch, Not a Trust Problem
At a recent workshop hosted by NuSocia, a group of CSR funders discussed a shared challenge: how to verify the…
Consent and the Girl Child
What India’s HPV Vaccine Rollout Invites Us to Ask On February 28, 2026, India launched free HPV vaccination for 14-year-old…
Understanding Tribals with Empathy Rather Than Judgment
During visits in various tribal regions, I assume we often notice an immediate focus on what “needs to be improved”…
Beyond CSR: Why Every Social Organization Needs to Understand Sustainable Finance
Since the Companies Act, 2013 made CSR mandatory, it has channelled thousands of crores into education, healthcare, livelihoods, and rural…
The Number That Isn’t There
On why we’re so good at counting what we do, and so bad at counting what we prevent There is…
The Social Stock Exchange Isn’t a Marketplace Yet. It’s a Test.
A working toolkit for CSR funders, philanthropists, NGOs, evaluators, and anyone else trying to figure out where they stand Four…
Beyond the Rainbow Logo: What DEI Backlash Is Actually Doing to Corporate Pride
For a decade, June meant the same visual everywhere: rainbow logos, limited-edition merchandise, a flurry of sponsored floats. That visual…
The Cognitive Dissonance of the Social Impact Sector
Welcome to this edition of The Social Audit. In the social development world, we talk a lot about “impact,” “sustainability,”…
Applying NITI Aayog’s TCRM Matrix to a Public Health Tech Application: What Works and What Doesn’t
In India’s public health ecosystem, dozens of Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) worker applications are launched across states, yet few…
When Asking Differently Leads to Better Insights
Adapting KAP methodology under evaluation constraints in a CSR education programme Sector Education / CSR Intervention type Science lab set-up…