Evaluation eco-system in India

Rashmi Agrawal and Banda V. L. N. Rao

Chapter 4 in Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation in the Global South, 2025, pp 84-103 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The practice of conducting policy evaluations to aid decision-making has spread rapidly in developing countries in recent decades. National development planning in India has recognized the importance of evaluation. India has established official machinery to conduct evaluations as early as the 1950s and has been conducting evaluations of various development interventions over the past seven decades. After that, the country witnessed the establishment of the Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO) in 2015 as the central, apex body for coordination, implementation, and development of evaluation activities, alongside the presence of civil society and autonomous research organizations in evaluation and the emergence of the Evaluation Community of India as an active association of professional evaluators has lent a robust supporting environment to the growth of evaluation practice. The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and DMEO, in collaboration with other public and private stakeholders, have been making sustained efforts to strengthen the evaluation ecosystem in the country. This chapter explores public policy evaluation in India.

Keywords: Evaluation; Institutionalisation; Indian evaluation eco-system; Capacity development; National development planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035351190
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