Contribution Analysis for CSR Assessments: Lessons from a Midline
MEL & mandated assessments for CSR have been around for a while, and for the most part the majority follow…
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The Metrics of Skilling Programs
Skill development has become a key focus for corporates and organisations investing in training programmes for youth, women and vulnerable…
Everything at Once: NEP 2020 and the Unfinished Work of Translation
Six years on, few people in India’s school system question what the National Education Policy wants to achieve. The difficulty…
What Are We Really Counting When We Count Youth?
Over the past few months, conversations around India’s youth unemployment have found their way into everyday discourse .Beneath the memes,…
Rooted in Reality: Why Local Context is Essential for Social Development
As evaluators, we come across and leverage many global frameworks, metrics, benchmarks, indices and more. While these are created in…
BUILDING A SPORTING CULTURE IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
In 2022, working with the Piramal Foundation on the Khelo MP project alongside the Directorate of Public Instructions, Government of…
The Screen Trap
Safeguarding India’s Demographic Dividend from Problematic Digital Use What the emerging evidence, policy response, and programme landscape mean for CSR…
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…
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”…