Welcome to Development Management Hub

Development Management is a specialised approach to management, specifically to build resilient, impact-driven social purpose organisations that create sustainable social change at scale. 

Development Management Strands

Scaling Social
Impact

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Organizational Learning, Knowledge Innovation & Dissemination

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Financial Stewardship, Sustainability & Accountability

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Purpose-driven Partnerships and Networks

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Adaptive Strategies & Approaches for Organisational Mission

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Strategic Fundraising, Donor Engagement & Resource Mobilization

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Marketing, Communications, and Brand Strategy

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Ethical Governance, Accountability, and Compliance

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Operations and Program Management

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Organisational Culture, People, and Leadership Development

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Technology for Social Change and Organisational Efficiency

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Systems Thinking and Complex Problem Design

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Latest Releases

Case Study
  • July 2026

FinMin may favour CSR monies to flow into Social Impact Bonds

This article from Hindu Business Line reports on the potential inclination of India’s Finance Ministry to allow Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds to be directed towards Social Impact Bonds (SIBs). The move could significantly boost funding for social development projects by leveraging private sector contributions. It discusses the implications of such a policy for governance and the broader landscape of development impact bonds in India, highlighting how this synergy could enhance social outcomes and financial innovation.
Paper / Report
  • July 2026

Rethinking Impact: From Metrics to Meaning – Convening Report

How do we move beyond measuring impact as a reporting requirement to using it as a tool for learning, decision-making, and long-term change? This report captures the key discussions, insights, and emerging ideas from Rethinking Impact: From Metrics to Meaning, a convening that brought together funders, practitioners, researchers, evaluators, and development professionals to examine the future of impact measurement in India. Anchored around the launch of the Rural Development Impact Framework (RDIF) and the Development Management–Social Impact Measurement and Management (DM-SIMM) approach, the convening explored how the sector can better understand contribution, centre community perspectives, align funding with the realities of social change, and create measurement practices that support learning over compliance. The report synthesises the conversations, key takeaways, and actions that can help build a more thoughtful and effective approach to understanding impact.
Blog
  • July 2026

Development Management: Genesis, Rationale, and the Foundations of an Emerging Discipline

Development Management (DM) arises at a junction that neither development studies nor mainstream management fully occupies on its own. Development thinking has traditionally concerned itself with what change is desirable and for whom, while management thinking has concerned itself with how collective effort gets organised and executed.
Paper / Report
  • June 2026

Roots of Change: A Realist Framework for Long-Term Rural Development Impact

How do we understand the long-term impact of organisations working to transform rural communities? Traditional evaluation approaches often focus on individual projects and short-term outcomes, making it difficult to capture the cumulative effects of sustained engagement over time. This report introduces the Rural Development Impact Framework (RDIF), an approach to assessing how organisations contribute to systemic change within a geography. Drawing on evidence from PRADAN’s work in Gumla (Jharkhand) and Dhamtari (Chhattisgarh), the study combines qualitative, quantitative, and geospatial methods to examine how livelihoods, institutions, collective action, and governance evolve over decades. The framework offers practitioners, funders, and evaluators a practical way to understand organisational contribution beyond attribution, revealing how lasting rural transformation emerges through the interaction of context, institutions, and human agency.

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