A CSR impact assessment report gives a holistic insight into the sustainability and the relevance of the project keeping in mind the environment, people, animals, and the ecology that is affected by the implementation of

The various steps in the Impact measurement and management process/cycle are given below: Define impact questions: Consider what decisions need to be made, what data is needed and whether data is already available, and what capacity is available to integrate lessons. Choose appropriate data collection tool/method: Consider time, cost, skills and intention to capture breadth versus depth of impact. Collect data/embed technology: Use most relevant tool or a range of tools as needed. Extract learning: Analyse the data you have collected to extract insights about impact on people and/or planet and how you might improve your operation for increased impact. Take action: Use newly gained insights to inform decision-making and potentially inform new questions. Tata Consumer Product Limited The company has a robust CSR Policy and active CSR Committee in place, has empanelled an independent impact assessment agency to conduct an Impact Assessment study of its eight CSR Projects to comply with the recent 'CSR Amendments Rules 2021' regarding Impact Assessment of CSR projects. The CSR projects of the Company are focused on the Tea Communities of Assam and Munnar (Kerala), Coffee Communities of Kodagu (Karnataka) and Communities of Mithapur (Gujarat), and Paonta Sahib (HP) The impact assessment agency planned an experimental design to understand the impact of selected CSR projects on different beneficiaries. The agency also planned monitoring and evaluation of a few of the projects depending on the priority of the organization. The evaluation approach has been designed in line with the objectives and scope of the project. A consultative approach for the impact assessment has been adopted. The findings have been triangulated based on interactions with key stakeholders, supplemented by primary and secondary research, and complemented by domain knowledge and field expertise as per the project-specific objective. The assessment broadly involves a review of the literature of every project, interaction with the key stakeholders for each project, development, and validation of questionnaire. The methodology of this study included designing the data points to be analysed and developing questionnaires for all eight projects. The assessment takes place in a hybrid mode with individual and focus group discussions. It is a blended mode on onsite and virtual assessment. The questionnaires were shared through one-on-one interviews and during focus group discussions. Document review and physical verification were also conducted at the site. Further data cleaning, analysis and interpretation had been done using statistical data analysis software. Representative samples & stratified random sampling method were used at 95% confidence level and 10% confidence interval respectively. Transparency was maintained throughout the study, the data and analysis represented in this report are from primary sources and collected by agency's trained resources. The secondary information used is collected from the authentic sources shared by respected project coordinators. Quality Assurance Interventions were also mentioned in report: development of questionnaires had been reviewed to check the alignment with the assessment objectives and confirm the data points; review of sampling plan in terms of completeness; training of enumerators and sample data fill-up; on-site random witness (where planned); data cleaning and data accuracy checking; review and validation of the first set of samples being analysed; stage review of outcome analysis and interpretation; final review by review team/mentor group.