Capacity Building Blogs Category

For over 24 years, Ambuja Cement Foundation (ACF) has been working to build prosperous communities by co-creating sustainable solutions to rural India. With the mission to energise, involve and enable communities to realize their potential, ACF has achieved a pan India presence built on long-term, robust partnerships. Water Resource Management - ACF's flagship program, aims

With the objective of building the already existing capacities of personnel in the development sector, specifically in the domain of bringing communities voices into program evaluation, 4th Wheel hosted a workshop on 'Storytelling for Evaluation'. The aim of the workshop was: Provide a practical introduction to community based, participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Present methods, tools

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” – Albert Einstein

Recently, I attended a conference on Impact Evaluation hosted by the Community of Evaluators (COE)/ South Asia in Thimphu, Bhutan. The conference was all sorts of GREAT! Four days were divided into two days of pre-conference workshops, while the two-day conference saw several interesting panel discussions. This being one of my first international conferences on

In every culture, stories are used to understand, entertain, transmit values, and mobilize action. Storytelling is an ancient human activity. Humans are natural storytellers and story-listeners. Storytelling has emerged as a popular and important strategy for capturing and communicating the results of a programme or organisation to various audiences. Traditional approaches to programme evaluations which

Achieving social transformation is a challenging task. It requires the change of behaviour, mindsets, and trusted practices, which are sometimes hard to let go of. While technological innovations and advancements are often implemented top-down without cultural adaptations, social innovations are complex and do not follow market mechanisms to diffuse among a larger population. Let’s say,

To deliberate on the possible way forward to achieve the ambitious and inclusive 2030 agenda and reflect on opportunities to integrate efforts to meet these aspirations, 4th Wheel undertook a workshop on 'Achieving SDGs in India'. We believe that each one of us comes with a set of valuable experiences and knowledge of the development

The third break-out session, which is part of Ambuja Cement Foundation’s event on World Water Day 2017, puts building capacities for water conservation at the centre of discussion. Considering that India sustains nearly 17 percent of the world’s population but is endowed with just four percent of global water resources, emphasizes the urgent call for

India’s water stress is a recurrent thread to urban and rural areas across the country. Increased water demand, climate change vulnerability, and pollution of water quality from both the agricultural as well as the domestic and industrial sectors put pressure on the scarce resources the country can rely on. On top of that, water availability

To deliberate on the possible way forward to achieve the ambitious and inclusive 2030 Agenda and reflect on opportunities to integrate efforts to meet these aspirations, 4th Wheel has launched a workshop series on ‘Achieving the SDGs in India’. Kicking off the event series on 26th November 2016, 4th Wheel, with support from the Swedish

To commemorate World Water Day 2017, Ambuja Cement Foundation joins hands with 4th Wheel Social Impact (4WSI) to host a participatory dialogue on “Co-creating water-positive communities”. As part of the event, we are facilitating three break-out sessions on water-related topics and making use of innovative tools and techniques. The objective of these workshop sessions is to