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”…
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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…
Beyond the Mandate: Navigating Affirmative Action in Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India operates at the complex intersection of statutory mandates and historical inequities. As organizations strive…
Fixing India’s Outpatient Gap
AB-PMJAY covers roughly 500 million people and is one of the largest public health insurance programmes in the world. A…
Where Is India Giving, and How Much? The Honest Answer Is: We Don’t Quite Know
India’s philanthropic sector is frequently described using numbers that sound authoritative. Figures in the trillions appear in conference decks and…