Social Impact Management

Crowdsourced data collection is widely believed to create an environment of active participation and engagement for social change. The underlying premise of the project was to provide a technological tool to monitor community action and learning around community-centred issues.  Assignment Type: Participatory Action Research  Thematic Domain: Education  Overview: The data suppliers for the project were 1800 students. They assisted [&hellip;]</p>

The commitment to evidence will only be possible with robust systems for gathering and analyzing data and the knowledge and expertise to translate results into effective actions.  Assignment Type: Strategy Review  Thematic Domain: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)  Overview: We facilitated the design of a Theory of Change for an international development organisation working on WASH initiatives in India, which sought [&hellip;]</p>

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>

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>

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>

Theory of Change (ToC) is essentially a comprehensive description and illustration of how and why the desired change is expected to happen in a particular context. Articulate your ‘Change Mission’ for more effective fundraising – Articulating the problem your organisation wants to solve and how your organisation solves it, improves grant-receiving opportunities. ToC is a [&hellip;]</p>

Good programme planning, combined with effective monitoring and evaluation, enhances the impact of development programmes. This idea is represented by the popular and strategic approach of Results-Based Management (RBM), increasingly being used by several governments and charitable organisations across the globe. A strong RBM system focuses on the ‘life cycle’ of programmes, where ‘results’ are [&hellip;]</p>

Targets 3.1 and 3.2 of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 – good health for all –  sets indicators for reducing the global maternal mortality rate (MMR) to less than 70 per 1,00,000 live births and global neonatal mortality rate (NMR) to as low as 12 per 1000 live births by 2030. Closer home, the National [&hellip;]</p>

Sharing findings of the needs assessment study undertaken for the Cuffe Parade Slums in Mumbai.</p>