IIM Kozhikode, NITI Aayog join hands to boost monitoring & ecosystem evaluation in India

Under the collaboration with DMEO, capacity-building programs, workshops, forums, seminars and other activities will be organized by IIM Kozhikode with an aim to enhance advocacy of monitoring and evaluation in the country.

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode has collaborated with the government think-tank NITI Ayog. The collaboration took place by signing a statement of interest focusing on strategic and technical collaboration to strengthen the overall monitoring and evaluation environment in India, with a special focus on building a data monitoring and evaluation stack. The SOI was signed by Professor Debashis Chatterjee, Director IIMK and Dr Sekhar Bonu, Director General, DMEO

According to the official information released by the institute, IIMK partnered with the Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO), NITI Aayog to “establish framework for cooperative institutional relations to encourage and promote cooperation in the area of the technical development, support appropriate capacity building and joint studies in the field of monitoring and evaluation of government policies and programs through econometric evaluation and monitoring.”

Under the collaboration with DMEO, capacity-building programs, workshops, forums, seminars and other activities will be organized by IIM Kozhikode with an aim to enhance advocacy of monitoring and evaluation in the country.

Speaking on the occasion, Professor Chatterjee said, “This strategic alliance is manifestation of IIMK’s commitment to three classical values of Indian thought - Satyam, Nityam and Purnam. Conducting joint research studies on India’s development challenges, will bring forth the truth of prevailing status (Satyam); further evidence from such studies will assist in informed policy making, fostering sustainable development (Nityam); eventually eminently becoming capable of delivering Purnam (wholeness) in our engagement with the research and capacity building endeavours of DMEO NITI.”

“In an increasingly fast-paced, complex, and digitized society, governments need to monitor and evaluate policies efficiently and effectively. Partnership with IIMK is an endeavour to bring India’s premier knowledge institutions and apex monitoring and evaluation office to do collaborative research for larger public good and benefit of society,” said Dr Bonu.

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