Social impact advisory services in India.

Essential social impact services.

We focus on designing and building effective solutions and offer customized services for our clients that enable tangible impact. We undertake social impact projects encompassing three primary categories:

• Market studies and strategy

  For the social sector and for scaling impact, understanding the local market is key. Many a global innovation fail when it is not fine tuned to local requirements. Our team of market experts are able to provide comprehensive primary and secondary research to help you understand the size, nuances and aspirations of the community that you wish to work with. This helps international social and development organizations understand the best methods to engage in India and helps improve fund flow into the right areas. Our services in this category include:

  • Market studies – Our market reports are built on not only thorough secondary research but also highly granular on-the ground primary data. These studies require interactions and consultations with thought leaders spanning academia, industry, government, public and environment for their insights
  • Compliance and Government Policies – Government policies in India are changing continuously. We help you understand the changes in policy, the documentation that may be required to support your development work and how they can benefit your impact
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy – We also help our clients in public and private sectors to create a meaningful CSR Strategy by formulating a CSR Policy, choosing the right projects, selecting the right partners, effectively monitoring the execution of the projects and deployment of funds, getting third party impact assessments and finally reporting. We have various models of engagement with clients and aid them to handpick projects of interest from the CSR ecosystem.

• Technology commercialisation & achieving scale

  International Development Organisations are working on technologies that address the needs of the unserved and underserved segments of society. For any work to have the desired impact, scale is key. When more people benefit from the activity in a way that is not only sustainable but also bring long lasting improvement to their lives, a multiplying effect in scale is achieved. We support our clients to commercialize the technologies developed or supported by them. We help to identify and work closely with commercial partners who are capable of technology transfer, co-development, manufacturing and taking the products to the market in India. In addition, we help our clients identify and implement pilots in India across their technology portfolio. We not only provide operational assistance but also leverage a supporting network and enable transfer of technology to the state where applicable.

  Our services in this category include:

  • Localization – As the saying goes, one size does not fit all but modular services which are customizable for local requirements go a long way in improving acceptability and being beneficial for local implementation
  • Project identification – A chasm is often staring at an organization when they wish to translate intent to impact. Starting with the right project helps in building trust and confidence in one’s actions
  • Pilots – Most important piece of the jigsaw puzzle of working in India, is to have a working pilot in India. It is not uncommon to hear key stakeholders indicate that while a solution has worked in other countries, unless there is proof of working in India, it will be difficult to adopt and scale. From identifying the right location to operational assistance to leveraging a supporting network, we help you every step of the way
  • Increasing coverage and reach – Working with the right partners can help in improving coverage and reach of programs and interventions. However, finding the right partner can always be a challenge especially in another country that is as vast and diverse as India. Knocking on the right door saves not only valuable time and effort but also improves credibility for the impact that is sought
  • Stakeholder Alliances – We bring together stakeholders in the social impact sector including government bodies, private players, technology suppliers, manufacturers and investors to help evolve complete solutions to social problems from concept to scale. Through its expertise and network we are able to provide the right connect to all stakeholders leading to higher success rate.

• Impact assessments

  Many a times, work is done in all earnestness. But when we look back at that work, in spite of all that was done, the impact / take away was very low. We help you in understanding the impact that you create at periodic times, evaluate progress of your sustainable social initiatives and reinforce work that drives greater improvement towards Sustainable Development Goals. If your organization provides investment for impact or a grant for furthering change or funds via your CSR budget, then our independent assessments will help you unlock that missing potential.