Real impact. 

Monitoring is continuous - tracking inputs, activities, and outputs in real time to ensure programmes run on plan. Evaluation is periodic and analytical - assessing whether the programme is producing the intended outcomes and impact. We deliver both, often integrated into a single MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning) system.

Yes - under the Companies (CSR Policy) Amendment Rules, 2021, companies with an average CSR obligation of ₹10 crore or more in the three immediately preceding financial years must conduct an independent impact assessment of every CSR project with an outlay of ₹1 crore or more, completed at least one year before the assessment. The assessment must be carried out by an independent agency.

We start with the evaluation question, not the method. A causal attribution question may call for an RCT, Difference-in-Differences, Regression Discontinuity, or Propensity Score Matching design. A learning-oriented question may suit contribution analysis, outcome harvesting, or developmental evaluation. A compliance evaluation typically uses OECD-DAC criteria. We recommend the lightest rigorous method that answers your stakeholders' actual questions.

A CSR impact assessment of a single programme typically runs 8–14 weeks end-to-end. A full baseline-endline evaluation of a multi-state programme runs 6–12 months depending on sample size and intervention duration. Scoping conversations and contracting usually take 2–3 weeks before fieldwork begins.

Yes. Our field network covers Aspirational Districts, hill states, the Northeast, and tribal regions. We have executed studies in areas where most vendors do not maintain active teams.

Yes. Developing a Theory of Change is often the first deliverable for programmes that don't already have one. Without it, indicator selection and evaluation design are guesswork.

Research involving children, survivors of violence, or other vulnerable groups passes through an ethics review aligned to Institutional Review Board (IRB) standards. Informed consent is taken in the respondent's preferred language. Personally identifiable data is encrypted, access-controlled, and segregated, in line with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

Yes. Many engagements are co-delivery - your team designs and analyses, our team executes fieldwork. We also build MEL systems and train internal teams.

Both. We are commissioned by CSR teams, foundations, multilaterals, and government as the independent evaluator of grantee programmes - and directly by implementing NGOs for their own learning and accountability evaluations.

Pricing is scope-driven - sample size, geography, number of languages, methodology complexity, and reporting requirements all matter. Our distributed field model makes us materially more affordable than legacy consultancies. We share a scoped proposal within 5 working days of an initial conversation.

Yes, standard practice. Mutual NDAs and full data-sharing agreements are signed before any sensitive information changes hands.