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,…
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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”…
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…