Advocating the cause of elementary education for all, supporting wider and more equal access to higher education by the poor and providing quality education by the State stands out among CSD’s key mandates. Most poor households rely on labour as their only asset but labour can be made more productive through education and skills training, crucial for achieving inclusive growth. Quality primary and secondary education systems ensure better learning outcomes and strengthening the accountability of educational institutions.

PROJECTS

2016 Harnessing and Leveraging the Demographic Dividend through Inclusive and Equitable Education and Skill Development
Sponsoring Organisation Indian Council for Social Science Research

2016 Role and Reach of Private Schools in India
Sponsoring Organisation Cambridge University Trust

2016 National Campaign for an Inclusive Implementation of the Right to Education Act, 2009
Sponsoring Organisation UNICEF and OXFAM India

2013 Project on a National Campaign for an Inclusive Implementation of the Right to Education Act,
Sponsoring Organisation OXFAM India and UNICEF

2010 A Village-Level Study of the Education and Land Patterns Followed by the Munda Tribe of Jharkhand
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development

2010 Evaluation of Jan Shikshan Sansthan (Gwalior, Bhind, Datia and Bhopal)
Sponsoring Organisation Department of Adult Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

2010 Evaluation of Jan Shikshan Sansthan (Ujjain, Indore, Ratlam and  Satnal)
Sponsoring Organisation Department of Adult Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

2009 Evaluation of Jan Shikshan Sansthan (Hardoi)
Sponsoring Organisation  Department of Adult Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

2009 Evaluation of Jan Shikshan Sansthan (Bhadoi)
Sponsoring Organisation Department of Adult Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India ***

2008 A Village- Level Study of Education and Land Pattern in Munda Tribe Jharkhand
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development

2007 External Evaluation of Post-Literacy Programme
Sponsoring Organisation  Zilla Saksharta Samiti, Etawah

2007 Results of UNICEF Baseline Survey on Well Being of Children and Women 2005
Sponsoring Organisation UNICEF, Delhi

2006 External Evaluation of State Resource Centre, Bhopal
Sponsoring Organisation Department of Adult Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

2006 Monitoring the Citizen’s Social Charter in India: Assessing the Status of Right to Elementary Education and Right to Food (Mid-Day Meal Scheme)
Sponsoring Organisation South Asia Centre for Policy Studies  and Asian Development Bank