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<p>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 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>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 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>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 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Water is highly essential to all three dimensions of sustainability, i.e. social, economic, and environmental. It is interlinked to crucial aspects of society, such as food, health, and renewable energies. However, it is often overlooked or taken for granted and not explored to a satisfying extent. The UN Secretary General has stressed the importance of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Quasi-experimental studies have proven to be very insightful and useful to evidence the impact of social programs. However, resource-intensive field research and high methodological complexity impede many organisations to undertake this type of evaluation. 4th Wheel has been commissioned to undertake a scientifically rigorous evaluation to assess the impact of a life skills programme by [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We just got back from this year’s Development Dialogues, one of India’s most influential and popular social entrepreneurship conferences, hosted by the Deshpande Foundation in Hubli. ‘Scaling effectively’ was the theme of the conference and more than 500 delegates from across the development sector- global and national, attended the conference. The day and a half proceedings [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is being used to bring new voices and broader participation into programme diagnosis and enable a wider range of input at a reduced cost. They are enabling evaluators to better manage and pull possible trends out of large data sets. ICTs are being used to help achieve greater inclusion in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Emerged from a tiny basement office in one of our grandmother’s houses, this month 4th Wheel is celebrating 6 years of promoting more effective social development programmes. Let’s take this moment to reflect on what we have achieved so far – this is our story: In 2010, we started our journey with the vision of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Cross-sector partnerships are the ‘development approach of our time’. Multi-stakeholder partnerships are expected to play an increasingly important role in the implementation of the 2030 Development Agenda, which has 17 inter-linked and universal Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at its core. These partnerships between Governments, NGOs, Corporates and multilateral organisations help to pool core competencies, share [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have paved the way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that the world will strive to achieve over the next fifteen years (2015-2030). Much has been accomplished already, but a key criticism of the MDGs was that there was insufficient attention paid to generating profound data to measure development progress. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The social development sector today is seeing a global shift towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the global development agenda developed by the United Nations. Contextualizing the SDGs Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, the 17 SDGs with 169 associated targets depict a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I can safely say that the journey from that initial jolt of culture shock that one experiences from stepping on the field for that very first time, to the final peace that a researcher makes with the fact, that obstacles are an intrinsic part of fieldwork is neither long, nor arduous when taken with the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>To streamline philanthropic activities and ensure more accountability and transparency, the Government of India made it mandatory for companies to undertake Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities under the Companies Act, 2013. These CSR obligations intent to help remediate poverty and social problems in India. Companies are subject to the CSR requirements if they have, for [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Participating in fieldwork was very exciting for me. Not only because I got to know another part of Gujarat and got insights into the living and working conditions in the Special Economic Zone of Mundra, but also because I see this as a complementary part of my work at 4th wheel.   Being in an [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In a job market that is tougher than it has ever been in generations, differently-abled people often face even greater hurdles into employment – access and mobility coupled often with prejudice and ignorance. The truth is that despite some political actions like the Rehabilitation Council of India Act (1992) or the Persons with Disability Act [&hellip;]</p>