Month: April 2026

In 2023, the Annual Status of Education Report found young men in rural India more than twice as likely as young women to own smartphones: 44% compared to 20%. Separate survey data placed women’s digital literacy nationally at 29%, against 59% for men. These figures describe a structural gap, not…

Across BlueSkyCSR’s portfolio – 70+ clients served, 200+ projects assessed, 40+ years of collective experience, ₹200+ crore worth of projects assessed – one pattern consistently separates high-impact programmes from those that plateau: the best performers are not running parallel to government schemes. They are plugged into them. This is a…

Across multiple CSR impact assessments conducted by BlueSkyCSR spanning rural India, one finding surfaces with enough consistency to warrant closer attention: programs that center women as primary stakeholders, and that invest in their agency rather than just their access, generate returns that extend well beyond the individual. This is not…

Most organisations do not have a Monitoring & Evaluation problem. They have a sequencing problem. The M&E report gets written at the end of the project cycle. A consultant is brought in. Available data is stitched together. The report is submitted.And the cycle repeats. This is not monitoring and evaluation.This…

From Tick-Box to Transformative: What Strategic CSR Philanthropy Actually Looks Like India crossed Rs. 34,908 crore in reported CSR expenditure in FY2023-24, according to disclosures filed with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. More than 32,000 companies have collectively invested over INR 1.5 lakh crore in CSR projects since the Companies…