• Media Article

India is turning towards data maturity for social change

  • Source : Hindustan Times
  • 1 January 2026
Trisha Varma and Swetha Prakash write in Hindustan Times about the increasing adoption of data as a strategic lever for social change in India. Drawing on findings from the ISDM CDSSI Data Maturity Assessment (DMA), the authors highlight that while 66% of Social Purpose Organisations (SPOs) recognise the extreme importance of data, the majority remain at “emerging” or “progressing” levels of maturity. The article identifies significant barriers to progress, including low levels of digitalisation and legal uncertainty surrounding the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA). The authors argue that for India to reach its “Viksit Bharat” goals, the social sector must move beyond using data merely for donor compliance and instead embed a holistic data culture into core functions to drive sustainable, large-scale impact.
  • Video

15th ISTR Conference (International Society for Third sector Research)

  • Source : ISTR
  • 1 July 2022
Urvi Shriram, Lead, ISDM-CPID and Dr. Ria Sinha, Research Lead, ISDM-CPID presented the paper ‘From Charity to Social Justice-Insights on Rethinking and Reshaping Philanthropy in India’ in the session ‘Attitudes about philanthropy and its role: Strategies and roles’ of the 15th ISTR Conference (International Society for Third sector Research) 12-15th July, 2022.
  • Video

Panel Discussion I Implications of the shifts in the philanthropy ecosystem on social justice

  • Source : Alliance Magazine
  • 1 September 2022
ISDM-CPID organised an in-person discussion on the Implications of the shifts in the philanthropy ecosystem on social justice to understand how funders and social purpose organisations can effectively work together and meaningfully engage with communities for sustainable social change.
  • Video

Implications of the shifts in the philanthropy ecosystem on social justice

  • Source : ISDM
  • 1 October 2022
An in-person and panel interaction With Neelima Khetan, CSR and social Sector advisor, Puja Marwaha, CEO, CRY, Suresh Reddy, CSR lead and Director SRF Foundation and Saransh Vaswani, Director and Co-Founder, Saajha for ISDM students, staff.
  • Book

Shifting from Charity to Justice: A Recasting of the Role of Philanthropic Organizations in the Indian Context

  • Source : Palgrave Macmillan
  • 1 January 2023
CPID at ISDM contributed a chapter to the edited volume, which introduces a preliminary, integrative conceptual framework at the intersection of management and social justice, emphasizing that the pursuit of social justice is not a fixed endpoint but an ongoing and evolving journey.
  • Paper / Report

Demystifying the Black Box of OBF in India

  • Source : ISDM
  • 1 March 2025
This report summarises insights, recommendations and action‑points from a roundtable on Outcome‑Based Financing (OBF) in India. It captures diverse stakeholder perspectives on nonprofits’ perceptions, support needs, challenges and potential strategies to make OBF transparent, accessible and effective for social organisations. It aims to illuminate hidden barriers (“black box”) in OBF adoption and chart practical steps forward.
  • Event Report

Building Evaluation Systems and Capacities to Leverage Context- A Way Forward

  • Source : ISDM
The document summarises deliberations at the 2025 Evaluation Conclave 2025 (Colombo), co‑hosted by Indian School of Development Management (ISDM) and GRAAM. It explores how evaluation systems in development practice must be grounded in local contexts while remaining methodologically robust, highlighting the need for participatory evaluation, stakeholder‑ownership, context‑sensitive methods, and capacity building of evaluators and communities. It calls for institutionalising evaluation as a discipline, strengthening evaluator skills, and aligning evaluation use with policy and community needs, to ensure evaluations are meaningful, inclusive, and relevant to lived realities.
  • Blog

Innovating Financing for social impact in India

  • Source : ISDM
  • 6 May 2023
This piece highlights how India’s social sector is shifting from traditional grants to innovative financing models such as catalytic capital, blended finance, and outcomes-based funding. It outlines how these mechanisms can unlock flexible capital, strengthen accountability, and enable scalable, measurable impact. The article emphasizes the need for collaboration among funders, intermediaries, and social purpose organisations to build a more resilient and future-ready social impact ecosystem.

In this age of AI, India’s Women Are Being Left Behind inSTEM and Skilling

  • Source : ISDM
‘In Fact’ is a quarterly newsletter by ISDM DataShakti. ISDM DataShakti, powered by Capgemini, is a pioneering single-window SDG data platform that makes SDG data easily accessible to social sector professionals like you, so you can focus on creating change on the ground.
  • Blog

An Urgent Call for Digital Literacy

  • Source : ISDM
‘In Fact’ is a quarterly newsletter by ISDM DataShakti. ISDM DataShakti, powered by Capgemini, is a pioneering single-window SDG data platform that makes SDG data easily accessible to social sector professionals like you, so you can focus on creating change on the ground.
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