Women and children gathered around a learning game during a community session

From evidence to everyday change.

CSDIL is a not-for-profit organization. We help governments, international agencies, CSR foundations and civil society find out what works for communities and then make it happen.

Good programmes fail quietly when evidence sits in reports and decisions are made without it.

We close that gap. Our team brings rigorous research, practical strategy and hands-on implementation support to sanitation, child protection, health and nutrition, and learning.

With experience of working across India, we treat every assignment as a cycle: listen to communities, generate evidence, design solutions, support delivery, and learn from results.

One cycle, from listening to learning.

  1. 1Listen
  2. 2Understand
  3. 3Design
  4. 4Deliver
  5. 5Learn and share

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How we work

One cycle, from listening to learning.

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What we do

Research, strategy, behaviour change, implementation, learning and CSR support.

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Where we work

WASH, child protection, health and nutrition, education and livelihoods.

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Our people

Three founders, trained at TISS, with experience across 15+ states.

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