Reports – Public Affairs Centre

Reports

As a research organisation PAC endeavours to bring out various outputs. The reports created primarily are part of a project delivery requirement, some of the reports are based on topics of national and state interest. The research teams ensure that the reports are evidence-based and also represent facts which could be translated into key elements in some of the policy making processes.

2020

MGNREGS Summary Report

The study, titled “India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS): Has it Impacted poverty?”, was undertaken in the Chitradurga district in the state of Karnataka, with the focus being on two critical objectives…

2016-2019

**Implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin: A Brief Evaluation** Implemented with the help of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the thrust was on working towards influencing behaviour changes in the community to foster better and sustainable sanitation practices. The focus was community engagement and social mobilisation to foster rights-based access to scientifically designed toilets. At the heart of the initiative was women-led mobilisation rather than women-centric implementation.

**PAI 2019 at a Glance** – Measuring the quality of governance poses a challenge. To address this, PAC pioneered and developed an evidence-based, data-driven framework to rank states on governance. This framework, the Public Affairs Index (PAI), besides adding to the discourse on governance, enables measurement of the quality of governance. PAI as a composite index captures the complexities of governance within and across the states of India.

As part of the Southern Voice State of the SDGs Initiative, the Public Affairs Centre explored the barriers to and enablers for the participation of women in India’s workforce. The study titled, “Will women be a part of India’s future workforce? The quest for sustainable and inclusive development”, presents an India case study, examining the causes for the declining female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) in the country and its policy implications.

2011-2015

2006-2010

2001-2005

1995-2000