Decoding Impact with Rathish Balakrishnan

Season 4 | Episode 9 Host: Rathish Balakrishnan, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Sattva Consulting Guest: Sourav Roy, CEO, Tata Steel Foundation As India’s CSR capital scales to an estimated ₹34,000 Crore, the sector stands at a historic crossroads. The conversation has turned to encompass the professionalisation of philanthropy and the technical rigour required to solve structural challenges....

Episode 8, Season 4 Host: Rathish Balakrishnan, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Sattva Consulting Guest: Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Paediatrician & Global HIV/TB Expert, Former Chief Scientist at WHO, Former Director General of ICMR, Chair, MSSRF Rising cases of dengue. Surging respiratory conditions. Harsher working environments. The climate crisis has become a public health crisis. The questi...

Episode 7, Season 4 Host: Rathish Balakrishnan, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Sattva Consulting Guest: Pankhuri Shah & Muzamil Baig, Co-founders, Project DEEP Do you believe we could lift India out of poverty with the help of cash transfers? Because the evidence says yes: direct and unconditional cash transfers improve recipients’ incomes, asset ownership, and mental well-being. Instead o...

Episode 6 | Decoding Impact - Season 4 Host: Rathish Balakrishnan, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Sattva Consulting Guest: Govind Iyer, a Member on the Board of Trustees of The Rockefeller Foundation, Chairperson, SVP India, and Independent Director of Infosys & Karmayogi Bharat Social sector spending in India is gaining momentum. Domestic philanthropy grew 7% y-o-y to ₹1.31 lakh crore (FY...

Episode 5 | Decoding Impact - Season 4 Host: Rathish Balakrishnan, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Sattva Consulting Guest: Dr K. Srinath Reddy, Cardiologist & Founder, Public Health Foundation of India, Recipient of Padma Bhushan in 2005 We’re consulting doctors over video calls. Tracking our sleep on smartwatches. Decoding health reports in seconds on ChatGPT. Technology is reshaping how...

Episode 4 | Decoding Impact - Season 4 Host: Rathish Balakrishnan, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Sattva Consulting Guest: Dr Shraman Jha, CEO, Hindustan Unilever Foundation (HUF) By 2030, India’s demand for water could be double the supply , according to NITI Aayog. Nearly 40% of the population may lack access to drinking water . The crisis is real, and solving it is only possible through col...

Episode 3 | Decoding Impact – Season 4 Host: Rathish Balakrishnan, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Sattva Consulting Guest: Shilpa Kumar, Managing Director & Head of India, British International Investment India needs $2.5 trillion by 2030 to reach its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) - climate action plans submitted under the Paris Agreement. As the climate crisis worsens, the ro...

Episode 2 | Decoding Impact – Season 4   Host: Rathish Balakrishnan, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Sattva Consulting Guests: Sohini Bhattacharya, Independent Consultant - Gender and Leadership & Senior Advisor, Accelerator for Shifting Gender Norms Through Education Erin Ganju, Managing Director - Accelerator for Shifting Gender Norms through Education What are gender norms? How do they i...

Episode 1 | Decoding Impact – Season 4 Host: Rathish Balakrishnan, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Sattva Consulting Guest: Dr. R. Balasubramaniam (Dr. Balu), Member–HR, Capacity Building Commission (Government of India) and Chairperson, Social Stock Exchange Advisory Committee (SEBI)This thought-provoking episode of Decoding Impact spotlights the evolution of state capacity in India and its cr...

From the macro to the micro and everything in between, in this episode of Decoding Impact, Manish Sabharwal illuminates the economics of India's current job market and the systemic levers needed to thrust India into grasping its full potential as an economy, society and nation. As one of the foremost experts on India's job market and the plight of Education in India today, Manish shares his expert...

The Indian energy sector is at a critical juncture. Electricity consumption, a key indicator of economic growth, has grown significantly over the past 50-60 years, and India is primed to leapfrog into a sustainably powered future. This transition calls for a robust policy foundation, technological advancements in demand-supply and storage mechanisms, and a keen study of economic incentives for use...

With the recent Union Budget announcement allocating ₹1.48 lakh crore to education, employment, and skilling, one question we continue to grapple with in the impact ecosystem, but in Education especially, is whether money is enough to really achieve the outcomes needed? Since Independence, Education has been the cornerstone of growth, development, and perhaps most importantly, hope for the nation....

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India is the third largest innovation ecosystem in the world. From India's transformational growth in the IT sector to her rapid digitisation, innovation is truly having its moment in India today. However, despite this promising outlook, social innovation continues to face challenges to scale. Faced by the perennial challenge that the problems for people and planet are running faster than the...

Worldwide, roads are increasingly seeing the presence of electric vehicles (EV) and India is expected to take 30% of the EV market worldwide. However, these tailwinds are attracting many players to the EV ecosystem, from suppliers to customers, to make EVs a reality on the road. In order to ease the challenges that these stakeholders could face in coming together, Digitial Public Infrastructure co...

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Philanthropy plays a vital role in the development sector naturally, however, in India today philanthropy capital accounts for only 5% of the total funding, with 95% coming from the governments. Is there a way we can reimagine the development sector, as a market place, that can manage risk in the hope of certain returns and rewards? With blended finance there is an opportunity to change how capita...

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"There are three types of people who work in education today: those who know the reality of a classroom, there are those who know the reality of grassroots, but there are very few who know the reality of how government looks at education." In this very special episode of Decoding Impact, host Rathish Balakrishnan is joined by Anil Swarup, Founder Chairman, Nexus of Good; Former Secretary...

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The story of a digitised India being catalysed through Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is all around us through examples like UPI and Aadhaar, but they have an equally critical role to play in enabling the economic powerhouse that are MSMEs. MSMEs are a popular topic, and one we have discussed a few times on Decoding Impact itself, but in this episode of we are trying to understand the role DP...

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At the core of enabling sustainable development it comes down to how it is funded that determines the success or failure of making true and lasting progress. Currently we face a significant challenge with achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, as there is a huge constraint in the lack of available funds to meet out the expense of realising these goals. So how can finance maxim...

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A part of solving India’s water crisis lies on its farms. From soil, to grain, cultivation, to harvesting, none knows the agrarian land in India and its potential more than our farmers. By empowering farmers with technology that will help them with greater yield, while enabling water conservation for the nation, the agriculture sector in India could be transformed. The solution? Micro-irrigation....