India’s scale and diversity create huge opportunities for the country, but to unlock its full potential, it’s essential to have a systematic, evidence-based understanding of the bottlenecks to socio-economic growth, and how these obstacles can be overcome. At OPM New Delhi, we provide policymakers and other stakeholders with the quality of research needed to move forward, effectively and sustainably.

OPM New Delhi’s dynamic team are linked with a diverse and exciting network of partners and associates across India and are supported by the analytical expertise of OPM Oxford, including its links with cutting edge research institutions such as the University of Oxford

The team’s main areas of expertise, based on OPM’s 20 years’ experience in India, include:

•   High quality, policy orientated research, especially around issues of social exclusion, vulnerability and service delivery
•   The design, implementation and evaluation of social protection programmes, with a particular focus on cash transfers
•   Primary data collection, both through innovative participatory qualitative methods and quantitative household surveys
•   Secondary data analysis, including cutting edge statistical and econometric analyses
•   Combining data collection and analysis in rigorous impact evaluations
•   Developing and supporting monitoring and management information systems
•   Value for Money (VfM analysis)
•   Health policy, health economics and the effective organisation of health services

OPM New Delhi’s assignments include:

•    Developing and supporting the implementation of UNICEF’s Capacity Development initiatives to support development efforts in key flagship programmes until 2012
•    The development of an integrated, web based Monitoring, Evaluation and Management Information System for DfID’s headline Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS) Programme, which supports 90 Community Based Organisations who support socially excluded minorities in seven States across India
•    Providing Management Consultancy services to DfID’s IPAP Programme, focusing on Monitoring and Evaluation, MIS, Value for Money analysis and Knowledge Management.
•    A formative research study using participatory research methods on knowledge, attitudes and practices around child labour in the cotton farming sector Rajasthan, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra for UNICEF
•    A desk review of children in the cotton sector in India, specifically in five states, that will be informed by the ‘knowledge, attitudes and practices’ (KAP) study and contribute to an understanding of current policies and their implementation processes, the existing legal frameworks, and programmes and schemes related to child labour.
•    Designing a Monitoring and Evaluation framework for the Joint UN Convergence Programme in India, focussing on the provision of decentralised service delivery in 7 States