SITE4SUSTAINABILITY KALYANI GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LLP (S4S) is a social enterprise 
co-founded by Prof. Shyama V. Ramani and Dr. Raja Venkataramani in India with the objective of contributing to sustainability transitions and the global development agenda. Its target areas are: Education, Urban Sustainability, Poverty, Gender Empowerment, Circular Economy and access to Water and Sanitation. A unique feature of S4S is that its members pursue a portfolio of career paths rather than working in a single organization, for greater professional and personal fulfillment. Thus, all members of S4S who are participating in this project, are actively engaged in both research and development practice.
S4S conducts research and policy analysis on solution designs to pressing societal challenges from the perspectives of, amongst others, economics of innovation, project management and governance. Further, it offers capacity building, strategy design and project support services to policy makers, public agencies and corporates to help them attain their sustainability goals. Finally, it provides mentorship to academics for publications and offers digital skilling courses to youth, the elderly and the marginalized.
As a service provider our differential can be understood as follows.
Organizational culture: We have a ‘social’ mission like a public sector organisation and at the same time we function like a consultancy wherein we understand that ‘time is money’ and respect deadlines.
Research culture: As an action-research unit, we go for ‘rigour’, ‘comprehensive analysis’, ‘truth-telling’ and ‘impact understanding’, while as an activist group, we are ‘change makers’ for ‘positive transformations’ and not just ‘talkers’ or ‘writers’ or ‘researchers’.
Solution design: We believe that actions/solutions must be simple while taking into account complexity. They must be environmentally friendly and socially just to effectively promote social welfare.
Our source of credibility: We are a small group and we intend to stay that way to ensure flexibility, speed, transparency and accountability.