PCI Advisory | Social Enterprise Consultancy

Who We Are

Strategy that adapts. Solutions that deliver.

PCI Advisory Private Limited is a consulting, research, and technical support agency registered under the Indian Companies Act, 2013.

We work with governments, funders, development organisations and businesses to address complex social and development challenges across health, nutrition, livelihoods, education, climate and digital innovation.

By combining strategic thinking, contextual knowledge and implementation expertise, we help turn priorities into practical action. Our work spans programme design, research, institutional strengthening, resource mobilisation and large-scale delivery across India and internationally.

Rooted in partnerships, we connect community priorities with local governance and wider development goals to support inclusive, sustainable change.

Every context is different. Every solution should be, too.

Working across India and internationally, we bring together global perspectives, local knowledge and an understanding of the people, systems and institutions that shape outcomes. We develop context-driven approaches that respond to local priorities and create opportunities for impact at scale.

What We Do

Six ways we work with you.

We partner with organisations, governments and institutions to strengthen systems and improve lives.

Strategy & Adaptive Management

Strategic planning, programme design and implementation roadmaps that adapt to changing contexts, emerging evidence and evolving priorities.

Research, Evidence & Impact Measurement

Research, evaluations and data systems that show what works, for whom and why, informing policy, strategic decisions and programme improvement.

Policy, Governance & Systems Change

Policy analysis, government engagement and institutional collaboration to shape development priorities and strengthen public systems.

Institutional Strengthening & Organisational Development

Strengthening institutional capacity, leadership and organisational systems to support effective, accountable and sustainable implementation.

Inclusive Development & Sustainable Livelihoods

Work across health, nutrition, education, women's economic empowerment, financial inclusion, climate resilience and livelihoods.

Programme Delivery, Digital Innovation & Scale

Implementation support, field operations, digital platforms and scale-up pathways that help solutions take root and endure.

SELECTED WORK

Where evidence meets impact.

Health, Nutrition & Well-being

IFA Supplement Adherence, Bihar

Centre for Social and Behaviour Change (CSBC) · 2023–24

Designed and tested interventions to improve Iron & Folic Acid adherence among women of reproductive age and adolescents, with recommendations for delivery at scale.

Evidence Review Assignment, India

University of California San Diego · 2024–25

Contextualised global evidence-review findings for India and built user-oriented evidence to sharpen implementing partners' programme design and learning questions.

Endline Assessment, Project Suraksha, Maharashtra

Committed Communities Development Trust · 2025

Mixed-methods endline evaluation of maternal and child health interventions across Bhiwandi and Malegaon, benchmarked against NFHS-5 standards.

Primary Health System Strengthening for Cancer Care, Dhenkanal

CAPED, with National Health Mission Odisha · 2026

District-level continuum-of-care intervention for oral, breast and cervical cancer, built with AIIMS and the Acharya Harihar Institute of Cancer

Livelihoods, Financial Inclusion & Women's Economic Empowerment

Financial & Insurance Awareness for MSMEs

M-CRIL / The InsuResilience Investment Fund · 2024–26

Human-centred design and behavioural science to diagnose adoption barriers and deliver a financial-literacy campaign for MSME field staff and clients.

Women Entrepreneurs & Climate-Smart Livelihoods, Bengaluru

SELCO Foundation · 2025

Mobilised women entrepreneurs for enterprise and financial-literacy training, with 40 champion enterprises advanced for clean-energy adoption.

Sourcing & Onboarding of Women Delivery Partners

Eternal Limited (Zomato) · 2025–27

End-to-end mobilisation, training and onboarding of women into urban delivery networks across Bengaluru and Hyderabad, targeting 400 partners.

Climate, Energy & Environment

Surya Nutan Clean Cooking Project

EKI Energy Services · 2024–25

Baseline, mobilisation, installation and monitoring support for 600 solar cookstoves for rural households in Uttar Pradesh.

CORE — Emissions Reduction for Smallholder Farmers, Haryana

GIZ, under the global CORE initiative · 2025

Trained Community Resource Persons to reach 2,800 farmers on Alternate Wetting & Drying, Direct Seeded Rice and residue management.

DEWEE Scale-Up, 5 States

Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet · 2025–26

Government engagement and a 3-year implementation roadmap to sacle Decentralised Energy for Women's Economic Empowerment (DEWEE).

Education & Digital Learning

Evaluation, Muskaan Dream Digital Learning Programme

Muskaan Dream Creative Foundation · 2026

Quasi-experimental evaluation of digital pedagogy and learning outcomes across 1,500 students in government schools in UP, MP and Rajasthan.

Anganwadi Practice Excellence Framework (APEF)

Schoolnet India Limited · 2026

Co-designing a national competency framework and coaching toolkit for frontline Anganwadi workers, grounded in 12 demonstration centers in Bihar, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh.

Digital Literacy & E-Governance, Aspirational Blocks

Nasscom Foundation, with DXC · 2025–26

Baseline-endline study of digital literacy and e-governance adoption across 10 blocks of Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Telangana, and Tripura, focused on PVTGs and women.

Evaluation of ‘Web Safe and Wise Project’, India

ChildFund India, 2025-26

Qualitative evaluation of the "Web Safe and Wise" project in Karnataka, Odisha, and Maharashtra, focusing on perceived outcomes, delivery fidelity, and implementation processes. The evaluation focused on online risks faced by adolescents aged 12–18 and aimed to strengthen digital safety and resilience.

Technology & Digital Platforms

VitasField — Offline-First Field Platform, Jordan

Vitas Group, with Global Communities · 2026

Designed and hardened a native Android platform for loan officers: 274-field form engine, AES-256 encryption, biometric auth, 31 RTL-ready screens.

MAPII — Demand-Side Research Platform

M-CRIL / Accion International · 2026

Built a geospatial sampling and survey-management platform deployed across five countries, with offline maps and realtime enumeration tracking.

Google Vaani Project in Jharkhand and Tripura

Karya (DAIA Tech Pvt. Ltd.) – 2024

The AI-driven voice module initiative involved 800 participants from various postal code areas in Jharkhand and Tripura. It focused on mobilizing human resources, particularly empowering women for digital employment opportunities.

Team

Our Team

Brijesh K. G. Rao

Director

Brijesh has extensive managerial experience, having spent 22 years leading and managing a variety of projects. He spearheads program, client and stakeholder management, exploration of behavioural science, HCD and technology application in emerging areas like Climate Change and Environment Management, along with Public Health, Gender Equality, Women’s Economic Empowerment, and Social Justice for the Vulnerable Segments. Throughout his career, he has held positions at PCI India, PATH, and UNICEF.

Vijay Kukreti

Director

Vijay has worked with various funding agencies and INGOs. He comes with 25 plus years of extensive hands-on experience in the field of finance, compliance and grants management in the Not-for-Profit sector in India. He holds an MBA (with specialisation in finance) and is a commerce graduate from University of Delhi. He also holds Honours Diploma in Systems Management. He has served several reputed organizations viz. PCI India, The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (The UNION), PATH, William J. Clinton Foundation, WaterAid, Save the Childredn, GiZ, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Intercooperation etc.

Dr. Kamlesh Lalchandani

Executive Director of Health

Public health leader with over 20 years of experience across Jhpiego, UNICEF and PCI India, driving organisational growth, strategic partnerships and large-scale public health programmes. Currently the Executive Director of Health at PCI advisory private limited, bringing extensive experience in managing multi-million-dollar portfolios of USD 20–30 million annually, strengthening health systems and advancing sustainable programme delivery. As former Deputy Country Director at Jhpiego India, demonstrated leadership in financial stewardship, resource mobilisation, government engagement, and policy implementation. Proven ability to build institutional capacity, align investments with national health priorities and forge strategic partnerships with governments, bilateral and multilateral agencies, and leading donors to deliver sustainable public health impact.

Global insight, local understanding, contextualised solutions for lasting social impact.

Strategy that adapts. Solutions that deliver.

Every context is different. Every solution should be, too.

Six ways we work with you.

Strategy & Adaptive Management

Research, Evidence & Impact Measurement

Policy, Governance & Systems Change

Institutional Strengthening & Organisational Development

Inclusive Development & Sustainable Livelihoods

Programme Delivery, Digital Innovation & Scale

Sectors We Serve

OUR APPROACH

PARTNERSHIP-LED

CONTEXT-DRIVEN

IMPACT-FOCUSED

Where evidence meets impact.

OUR CLIENTS & PARTNERS

Our Team

Brijesh K. G. Rao

Vijay Kukreti

Dr. Kamlesh Lalchandani

Let's Build Impact Together

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