Policy Briefs & Reports

The Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) offers a technology-driven solution to strengthen the monitoring framework and information flows of the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (MDMS). It is being implemented in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar since 2010 and 2012, respectively. This note summarises...

So that local people can use and understand the laws regulating development and the environment of India’s coast, Namati has created a Coastal Regulation Zones booklet. It covers all the information available in the complex official document, but it is presented in a way that ordinary people can ...

Soon after India's partition in 1947, its historical ties with the Central Asian region (CAR) suffered a setback as it lost its direct overland access to the region. However, in the following decades India somewhat resurrected its relation with the region largely due to its close diplomatic ties ...

This document is not just a report or a mere documentation of a pilot process, but an attempt to chronicle the numerous stories of thousands of people who have been part of a community monitoring process rolled out by the NCPCR and supported by the MHRD. Such an initiative by the government has b...

This photo document is part of a larger exercise on documenting the 'Community Monitoring' process of the Right to Education Act (RTE), a process that first began in 2010 when this team was at the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and received support from the Ministr...

Preliminary analysis of data sets – the Census 2011 and the allocation of funds under JNNURM to create urban infrastructure revealed a clear bias. Public funded programmes especially on sanitation where primarily focusing on large cities, while smaller towns housed a sizeable urban population. Th...

The India-Vietnam bilateral relationship in the past has been supported by various commonalities including six decades of anti-colonial interests, pan-Asian nationalism and independent foreign policies. The first instance of India’s development cooperation towards Vietnam predates India’s 1991 ‘L...

The Delhi Master Plan 2021 introduced the “In-situ rehabilitation” approach to slum redevelopment, in which residents of JhuggiJhopdi Clusters transition to temporary housing while the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) reconstructs the settlement, and then shifts the slum-dwellers back onto the o...

This study employs a combination of primary survey work and secondary analysis of government documents, to track releases and expenditures of foodgrains and fund flows from Government of India (GOI) all the way down to the schools for the financial year 2011-12. The study is based on data col...

So that local people can use and understand the laws regulating development and the environment of India’s coast, Namati has created a Coastal Regulation Zones booklet that covers all the information available in the complex official document, but it is presented in a way that ordinary people can...

India is undergoing structural urban and economic transitions and has set ambitious policy targets to meet its rising energy needs for development. Expanding coal and renewables are two important pillars of this undertaking and, since 2008, climate protection is of increasing concern. India’s int...

India for long has been a provider of economic support as well as capacity building assistance to Maldives. It has also acted as a security provider to the island nation with one prominent instance being the coup in 1988. Even till recently in 2012, India was at the forefront when it came to prov...

Analytical studies on rural local government finance are few and far between in India. The paucity of reliable data and the lack of transparency in Panchayat finances and associated difficulties in accessing data are important reasons for this. These data gaps are well known and successive Financ...