From compliance
to verified impact.
CSR is no longer a back-office compliance function. Section 135, BRSR, and rising stakeholder scrutiny have made it a strategic priority that boards are accountable for. We help you govern it with the same rigour you apply to every other capital decision.
Boards want to defend
their CSR governance.
Good intentions are no longer enough. Boards and CSR committees are increasingly asked to demonstrate not just that funds were spent, but that they were spent well — with due diligence, strategic alignment, and evidence of impact. We provide the infrastructure to answer those questions with confidence.
How we work with Corporates
CSR Strategy & Governance
The framework that keeps your CSR committee confident and your board defensible. Annual policy formation, fund allocation, and compliance assurance — CA-led and audit-ready.
Impact Measurement & Assurance
Evidence that satisfies boards, regulators, and stakeholders alike. Monitoring & evaluation, impact assessments, and SROI studies that turn activity into verified proof.
Partner & Programme Delivery
Getting implementation right on the ground — through rigorous NGO due diligence, implementation assistance, and ESG advisory for partners you can trust and prove.
What we design and
deliver for Corporates
Monitoring & Evaluation
Impact Assessment
Implementation Assistance
ESG Advisory
NGO Due Diligence
Social Return on Investment
Annual Policy Formation
Fund Allocation
Compliance Assurance
CSR Audit
Audited CSR Expense Reports
We enable organisations to align business objectives with meaningful social outcomes — combining compliance, strategy, and measurable impact to build interventions that are both defensible to a regulator and genuinely transformative for a community.
CA-Led Audit Services.
Not just advisory opinions.
Most CSR consultancies can advise. Very few can audit. As a CA-led firm, Social Sutra delivers formal audit-grade deliverables that stand up in front of a board, a regulator, or a statutory authority — because they are signed off by a practising Chartered Accountant.
These are not reports you commission to feel confident. These are reports you produce to be confident — and to demonstrate that confidence to others.
Audited CSR Expense Reports
Formal, CA-signed audit reports of CSR expenditure — verifying that funds were spent as committed, for the stated purpose, with proper documentation. The deliverable your board and your regulator can both rely on.
CSR Audit
Independent audit of your CSR programme — examining whether expenditure matches stated objectives, whether partner NGOs are compliant, and whether your programme delivers the impact you reported. Governance confidence for your committee and your board.
Financial rigour and field intelligence.
On the same engagement.
Most CSR advisories give you one or the other — either a strategy deck from consultants who have never sat with a District Collector, or a field team that cannot sign an audit. Every corporate engagement at Social Sutra is co-led by both founders, giving your board a single team that answers to the boardroom, the regulator and the ground.
Shelly Monga
Co-Founder & Director · FCA, INSEAD
- CA-led CSR audit & audited expense reports
- Section 135, BRSR and CSR-2 governance
- Board committee & regulator-facing deliverables
- ESG advisory and fund-utilisation assurance
"CSR capital deserves the same rigour as any other line on the balance sheet."
Harleen Kaur
Co-Founder & Director · 15+ years in the field
- Programme design, theory of change & logframes
- NGO due diligence and partner assurance
- Impact assessment, SROI & outcome verification
- Community engagement in Tier-2, Tier-3 & rural India
"An impact report only means something if the numbers behind it were witnessed."
Where we differ from generalist CSR consultancies
Firms like Sattva, Samhita and the large advisory practices operate as strategy houses with implementation partners bolted on. Social Sutra is one integrated firm: a practising Chartered Accountant sitting alongside a fifteen-year field practitioner on every engagement — from the annual CSR policy through to the signed audit report. No hand-offs. No proxy voices. One accountable team.