All Blogs

Our work engages communities and builds local capacities to undertake monitoring and evaluation activities, to collectively address critical social and economic challenges. Case Example  The E-participation platforms we offer (involving participatory videos, community web talks, virtual games, and networking) are useful tools to connect with vulnerable groups online and establish digital initiatives.  Assignment Type: Social Impact [&hellip;]</p>

For uninterrupted and efficient project supervision, monitoring, and evaluation, we have strengthened systems to undertake rapid, remote data collection and phone-based surveys.  Case Example  Despite methodological limitations, phone surveys are a very powerful tool to keep in close touch with beneficiaries, generate data to make evidence-based decisions, and design the right solutions.  Assignment Type: Social Impact [&hellip;]</p>

All capacity-building workshops hosted by 4th Wheel aim to bring people together to seek their opinions, extract knowledge, and solve problems in a collaborative and creative environment. We wish to make sharing, learning, and teaching in the development sector more participatory, enjoyable, and effective. Key features of our workshops are shown in the below infographic:

At 4th Wheel, we apply different types of mediums to share information on achieving social development goals. We combine old media forms with new media to drive conversations, spread awareness, and motivate individual action. We believe new-age communication and social networking play a very integral role in mobilising communities and strengthening people's power. The rationale

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) push the global development community to set ambitious targets, drive bold innovations, and measure impact consistently. According to a recent study, about 65 percent of the 169 SDG targets can only be achieved through the substantive involvement of multiple local actors. Local action depends on community participation, awareness, and ownership.

We work with several organisations to build Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) frameworks. These frameworks enable saving resources and time, reducing paperwork, facilitating administrative steps, quickening project-related communications, and enabling near real-time data collecting to inform decision-making and create result-oriented programmes. 8 steps to building a strong MEL framework for social programmes followed by 4th Wheel [&hellip;]</p>

Coronavirus Precautions: Social Distancing? Using Masks? Washing hands with Sanitizers? Easy things right. Not for people who are homeless, live in slums, or rural parts of India. But do you want to help those who are in need during this time of distress? If the answer is yes, then here are some organisations that you

There was a slum community where a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) was working on eradicating malaria and dengue. However, the NGO did not receive the expected outcomes from their project. Hence, a research organisation was tasked to identify the problems that the people had in accessing their services. The NGO then used different tools with various [&hellip;]</p>

Post natural disasters, countries should focus on rebuilding their infrastructure and resources, stronger and faster, and in an inclusive manner so that post-disaster support reaches all sections of the society. This will not only ensure that people restore their income and assets as early as possible, but also mitigate long-term consequences in domains such as [&hellip;]</p>

Slums aren’t a rare sight in Mumbai.  But every time I came across one, only two things came up to my mind – how did these illegal structures come up and how do people manage without basic amenities like water and sanitation? But I never pondered about it beyond that. Through my internship at the [&hellip;]</p>

In recent years, government policies have taken several initiatives to push for a more formal economy to promote the idea of financial inclusion, by encouraging online payments and going cashless and the opening of basic saving bank deposit accounts for certain sections of the society, under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana(PMJDY), etc. These bank

“By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all people to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly towards it.” – J.F. Kennedy Last year, we published a Vlog on ‘Why Data is important to achieve the SDGs in India’ . It outlined four