Worker Wellbeing in the Supply Chain
As the year comes to an end and a new one begins, most of us start to think about our health. We control our diets and our physical activity, but we have limited control over where we spend most of…
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Can Cities Drive Both Growth and Sustainability?
Urbanization has emerged as a defining global phenomenon, reshaping the way we live and interact with our environment. With more people residing in cities than rural areas, this transformative shift is poised to continue. Over the next three decades, urban…
Climate Financing: A Once-in-an-era Opportunity for the Private Sector
Sustainable financing was developed to answer one of the most important questions in the development world: how do we catalyze funds for overhauling economic, health, civil ecosystems to reduce emissions and work towards reversing the trajectory to a climate catastrophe?…
Leveraging Large Language Models for Social Impact
In recent years, the emergence of powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT series, Google Bard, and Meta Llama has made significant strides across various industries. The social impact sector included. In this blog, we will explore how…
Bridging the Gender Pay Gap in India
The gender pay gap refers to the difference in average earnings of people based on gender. It is a widely recognized indicator of gender inequities, and it exists across industries and professional levels. The gender pay gap in India has…
Nurturing Ingenuity: A Winning Strategy Towards Women Empowerment
The ingenuity of women in the realm of entrepreneurship stands as a testament to their remarkable resilience and creativity. Reflecting on history, it often occurs to me that while many groundbreaking inventions are attributed to men (at least as per…
Exploring Women’s Health-Seeking Behaviour: Insights from India
Health is a fundamental right, yet access to it is not always as straightforward as it seems. Health-seeking behaviour, a pivotal aspect of ensuring timely healthcare access, encompasses an individual’s proactive inclination to seek medical attention when unwell. While quality…
Navigating the Storm: Lessons from COVID-19 for Disaster Response
India is faced with the colossal challenge of providing equitable access to quality healthcare services for its massive population of over 1.3 billion people. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s healthcare system faced significant challenges, including a large population, regional disparities,…
Do No Harm Framework
As social consultants and development sector practitioners, we are on a constant mission to create meaningful, impactful change. But sometimes, the best of intentions can unintentionally cause harm. This is particularly true in conflict-affected contexts, where well-intentioned social development projects…
Learnings from Gender Day at COP27
How can women and girls participate in protecting the environment? Women from indigenous groups, and local communities are the most vulnerable and bear the brunt of climate shocks. Research and statistics show that they would prove to be better partners…
Gender, COP27 and Climate Change
Global policy discussions around gender and climate action Last month, from November 6-18, the global development community was focused on the 27th United Nations Climate Change conference, or shortly known as COP27. An annual conference being organised since the United…
Gotong Royong: The kindness of giving together
The world is witnessing more acts of kindness despite increasing acts of violence, anarchy, political, social, and economic instabilities, inequalities, and armed conflicts.While people from all over the world are facing their own battles individually or collectively with COVID-19, economic…
Sunrise Areas of Growth – Let the Rays Reach One and All
When we look at the 2022 budget from the perspective of sustainable development, elements of inclusive development, digital transformation and circular economy appear as cross-building strands of near term and long-term actions spelt out in abundance. Considering the Amrut Kaal…
Data in Social Sector – Boon or Bane ?
Based on its years of experience working with data of social sector, NuSocia has developed a Social Research Ethics code. The code ensures that beneficiary data is protected and used only for the project purpose. The publically available form of…
Capability Building – What, Why and How
While interacting with a fellow collaborator last week, I was in for a surprise – this individual, at quite a senior position had absolutely no qualms in sharing that she has been taking online lessons on advanced excel – a…
Strategic CSR versus Strategy for CSR
The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is as old as business itself and a prominent notion in management discourse; however researchers still do not share a common definition or set of core principles. Nevertheless, there is a consensus that…
Mergers & Acquisitions – Why we never hear of them in Non profit sector ?
Mergers and Acquisitions (or M&A as they are popularly known as ) are very common in business world. Very often we read about a new startup being acquired by a big company or merger between two established companies. India being…