WHY WE EXIST
Most evaluation is designed to confirm what a funder already suspects.
It measures what happened at the surface: activities delivered, outputs counted, and stops there. The dynamics that held the problem in place, before the programme arrived and those that will hold it in place after the grant ends, go unmeasured.
Nuvora Impact starts one level deeper. That means mapping the system a programme sits inside before deciding what to measure inside it; behaviour-over-time, not single snapshots; structures, not just events; mental models, not just metrics. The result is evidence that shows where to intervene, not just what to report.
Natasha started in the field at an after-school community centre in Bangalore, managing volunteers, stretching budgets and ending up in the classroom when the programme needed someone.
A decade of work followed: MEL across thirty Indian cities, evaluation of a $200m global youth mental health fund spanning twelve LMIC's and the assessment behind a £2m continuation funding decision across 21 VCSE organisations in South London.
The contexts had almost nothing in common except the same gap between what was being measured and what actually mattered.
That gap is what Nuvora was built to close. Who gets to decide what counts as evidence?
That question is now the founding logic of Nuvora Impact.
Design for Good Global Alliance, Individual Contributor Royal Society of Arts, Fellow Design Research Society, Fellow
University of the Arts London, MA Design Management AI for Good Network, Member UN Women UK, Volunteer
FOUNDER
Natasha Shashikant
A BRIEF FOUNDER's JOURNEY
Designed and led MEL across 30+ Indian cities. Trained over 1,500 volunteers pan India.
Designed and delivered the assessment behind a £2m continuation funding decision across 21 VCSE organisations in South London.
Built the mixed-method framework and co-designed Theory of Change to evaluate a $200m youth mental health portfolio across 12 LMICs.
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Eval4Action
We have signed the Eval4Action pledge, committing to evaluation as a key accelerator for the Sustainable Development Goals.
WHERE WE ARE ROOTED
The networks, commitments and communities that shape how we work
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Catalyst Now
A global movement connecting social innovators for collaborative systems change, advancing the SDGs through collective action across 156 countries.
SIGNATORY
We are committed to gender equality and women's empowerment across our work and partnerships.
Women's Empowerment Principles
UN SDG ALIGNMENT
Sustainable Development Goals
Our work sits within five of the seventeen goals. Health, education, gender equity, accountability and partnerships sit at the centre of what we do.
PARTNER
As Impact & Documentation partner we track outcomes across events, participation, learnings and synthesise them for the coalition to build on.
Climate Week India 2026
We begin every engagement by mapping the dynamics your current evidence is not capturing. Tell us the programme or portfolio, the timeline and what the evidence needs to do.
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