Capacity Building Blogs Category

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:

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.

“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

4th Wheel has received a grant by the Swedish Institute (www.si.se) to design and conduct a workshop on ‘Identifying contextualized indicators to measure the Sustainable Development Goals in India’. The expected results of the workshop are an improved understanding among participants on measuring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and indicator development, and an exchange of

The rhetoric of the self-serving, evil corporation is one we are all too familiar with. It is also one that up until very recently, I completely bought into. I certainly did not believe they served any cause beyond self-interest that I could get behind (funnily enough, business school seems set on making me do just

In part 1 of 4th Wheel’s guide on “Using Data Mining for Donor Profiling”, we discussed data mining, donor profiling, and their relevance in the non-profit sector. To recap: Since the techniques used for mining meaningful data and conducting impact evaluation rely on computer science and coding, the process is often automatic (or semi-automatic) once

In the age where we are all a string of numbers that can be reduced to categories and patterns through which organisations and politicians target us with their products and agenda, it’s difficult (if not impossible) to stay completely off-the-grid and keep your information private. At a time like this, it becomes more important than [&hellip;]</p>

Documentation is often seen as a difficult task by most development organisations. The documentation challenge generally links back to a lack of knowledge on and usage of ideal tools and techniques for documentation. Another critical challenge is from the point of view of motivation for and realisation of the need for documentation. Photo source: Process

“Collaboration should be about evolution and not revolution” &#8212; Raj Gilda, Co-founder, Lend-A-Hand A noble quote that justly defines the collaboration between J.P Morgan, UnLtd India &amp; 4th Wheel Social Impact for the Learning Journey series – Skilling Matters. A mere 2% of the Indian population has received any form of skilling which is lower than

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. – Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa Evaluation without cultural context often becomes an empty effort that hinders positive change. That's why understanding the cultural

In a world where nothing is static and the face of research keeps evolving, it can be difficult to conduct an accurate, reliable evaluation. Diving deep into myriad theories and spearheading complex implementation calls for a vigilant evaluation at every major turn. It’s through this implementation that evaluation dictates the successes and failures of the

Effective Evaluation makes or breaks a program or project undertaken by an organisation. The straightforward process of interpreting a program’s results while keeping in mind factors like its goals, resources, and present-day relevance to gauge the value or merit of the program is one of the key determinants in deciding the impact of your initiatives