CauseBecause’s research and evaluations wing has been steadily scaling up and expanding its footprints at the grassroots, especially in regions where social-development projects are being executed by large corporate groups and donor foundations. In the last FY, CauseBecause was commissioned to carry out thorough evaluation of all corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects of Hero MotoCorp…
The ministry of youth affairs and sports, Government of India, has recognised STAIRS Foundation (Society for Transformation, Inclusion and Recognition through Sports) as a national sports promotion organisation (NSPO) for promoting sports at the grassroots and community level. STAIRS claims to be the first organisation in the country to introduce the concept of grassroots sports…
Costa Rica has become the first country to announce its aim to become carbon-neutral by 2050. In an official decree signed by President Carlos Alvarado, the country plans to fully decarbonise by 2050 and has extended its moratorium on oil exploration to 2050. The country previously had an unofficial goal of going carbon-neutral by 2021….
Elections 2019 is happening right now, in a flurry of rallies, speeches, promises, mudslinging matches, and competing manifestoes. Expectedly, the two most-talked-about manifestoes belong to the two biggest political parties of the country. While the Congress’ well-received (by the liberal establishment) manifesto tried to concoct a heady mixture of proposals that sought to be pragmatic…
An evaluation of a CSR intervention was recently conducted by Team CauseBecause (CB) with regard to Max India Foundation’s (MIF) adoption of Dhakrani village in Uttarakhand. The assessment was done to evaluate the impact of interventions carried out in the operational area and to understand the nature and volume of deliverables as claimed by MIF…
A global initiative to create a new industry to bring some smart foods back as major staples has been launched by leading agriculture organisations from Africa and Asia. The inaugural meeting and signing of agreements by agricultural associations took place on 13 January 2019. The agreements resulted in the formation of the Smart Food Executive…
The launch of a nationwide literacy programme in eight cities has been announced by Pega Teach for Change (TFC), a nonprofit organisation that works with governments to improve literacy and life skills among primary school children from low-income communities. The organisation focuses on students in grades 3 to 5 in government schools. The programme will…
Humanity has wiped out 60 per cent of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles between 1970 and 2014, a new report by the WWF has revealed. The devastating findings were released in the report, Living Planet, which has inputs from scientists from ZSL (Zoological Society of London), WWF, and other organisations who have been monitoring changes…
The India chapter of the so-called ‘Better Life Farming’ alliance has been launched with the stated objective of enabling better incomes for farmers by providing them with knowledge regarding efficient use of inputs and timely, better access to markets. This alliance is led by Bayer and IFC in partnership with e-commerce firm Big Basket. Earlier…
A Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP), which is a sub-scheme of the ministry of rural development’s National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), aims to create around 36,000 rural enterprises by 31 March 2021. This programme was started in 2015″16 by the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), a national resource institute for entrepreneurship education, research, training…
