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…
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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…
The Intersection of Gender Identity and Health for the Transgender Population in India
By the Public Health Center of Excellence and the Gender Center of Excellence India’s transgender population faces a healthcare crisis…
Gender Mainstreaming, Fem-Washing, and the Cost of Doing It Wrong
By the Gender Center of Excellence There is a particular kind of institutional failure that is harder to correct than…
Are We Measuring What Matters – or Just What We Can Defend?
By Manju Menon, CEO NuSocia The social sector is obsessed with success and terrified of failure. In a space where…
AI Putting the “L” back in MEL
How M&E Became the Engine of Strategic Growth MEL has always been about learning. What’s changed is who’s doing it,…
Embedding Geopolitical Risk into Sustainability Frameworks
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has triggered what the International Energy Agency describes as the largest oil supply…
The Infrastructure Nobody Wants to Build
NuSocia AI & Data Center of Excellence | 2026 In September 2025, BCG published a report on what they called…
Are we Empowering Women or are we Empowering Her To Build a Better World for Us?
In the development landscape, women-centered programmes are routinely framed as yielding benefits that extend far beyond the woman herself. Titles…
Ground Up Governance
Governance is often understood as the system of rules, processes, and institutions that guide decision-making, ensure accountability, and enable societies…