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We discuss the role of funding agencies in processes related to impact assessment. In these insightful conversations, we delve deep into relevant questions surrounding quantification, qualitative methods, the difference between outcomes and impact, and the need for standardization versus the relevance of context-specific approaches, amongst other related issues.

The ‘Discussion’ section captures conversations and deliberations on topics like “Looking Back, Looking Ahead,” which will be of interest to all of us who work in the domains of education and development.

We are in the middle of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. In this time of crisis, the current issue of Samuhik Pahal discusses the all-important issue of well-being.

In “Governance in the CSOs” Deepak Jain shares what good governance means for CSOs’ day-to-day operations, some common challenges that they face, and how these can be addressed.

The second one, with sustainability practitioner P. S. Narayan, deals with larger questions about what it means to fail and succeed in the social sector. Both, independently, and when read together, may deepen our understanding of education and social action by showing us what is involved in intervening in a reflexive manner, and what it means to succeed and fail. Hope you find this issue of the journal of use, in thinking about this important aspect which we all must deal with.