Dear readers,
Tomorrow at 4 pm IST we go live with Dialogue 9 of our Social Impact Dialogues: SROI in Practice — Two Stories, One Method.
If a funder or a board has ever asked your organization for an SROI, you know the moment. The method sounds simple — value the change, divide by the investment — until you actually have to do it. Which outcomes make the cut? What do you do about change that would have happened anyway? And once the number exists, who does it convince? Tomorrow's hour sits in that gap between the idea and the doing, with two teams who have been through the whole process on live programmes.
Sejal Agarwal (Senior Manager – Impact, Oorja Development Solutions) brings the social enterprise experience — valuing what pay-per-use solar irrigation changed for smallholder farmers in Uttar Pradesh.
Rutuja Chaphekar (CSR Manager, Forbes Marshall) brings the corporate experience — valuing what seven years of a girls' scholarship programme in Pune made possible.
Sharon Weir, Co-Founder of The 4th Wheel, moderates, and we close with your questions.
What we’ll get into:
Why each organisation chose SROI — and what they wanted to know that other methods couldn’t tell them
How outcomes get selected and valued in practice, from reduced irrigation costs to a girl staying in school longer
What the process asks of your team — the data, the time, and the internal conversations nobody warns you about
What happens after the report lands: how findings are being used with investors, boards and programme teams
When SROI is the right method for your evaluation — and when it isn’t
Whether you commission evaluations, run them, or read the reports they produce, this hour is built to leave you with a working sense of the method — not the textbook version.
See you tomorrow at 4.
About 4th Wheel Social Impact
Founded in 2010, 4th Wheel works with funders, NGOs, and government partners across India and South Asia on impact strategy, MEAL systems, and evaluation. We focus on building evidence systems that are field-grounded, methodologically rigorous, and useful to the people making decisions.
Warmly,
4th Wheel Social Impact Team