Outline India

Established in 2012, Outline India is a research and development consultancy firm based in Gurugram, India. Outline India focuses on research design, impact assessments, RCTs & evaluations together with survey tool designing, monitoring and evaluation activities, piloting interventions and undertaking on ground research across a diverse range of sectors, namely, Water and Sanitation, Child Rights, Education, Gender, among others.

The company has undertaken over 70 projects across 24 states and union territories of India and collected data in over 4000 locations.

Founder[edit]

Outline India was founded by Prerna Mukharya in September 2012. Mukharya has completed her Bachelor’s (Honors) in Economics from Delhi University in India post which she pursued a Master’s in Economics from Boston University, USA. She has previously worked as a research assistant at esteemed institutions such as Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Bureau of Economic Research and Centre for Policy Research.

Fellowships and Awards[edit]

Chevening Rolce Royce Science and Leadership Innovation Fellow (CRISP) awarded by the UK Government at Oxford University, 2018

Forbes Women trailblazers in India (awarded to top 25 businesses led by women), 2018

Fortune 40 under 40, India for distinguished work with data as a for-profit social enterprise, 2017 & 2018

Raisina Fellow, awarded by Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India and Observer Research Foundation

Delegate for Asian Forum on Global Governance, held by Shri Shashi Tharoor (Member of Parliament), ORF 2017 and ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Germany

Australia India Youth Dialogue Fellow

Clients[edit]

Outline India's clients include non-profits such as WaterAid, Going to School , Organ India, Whypoll Trust, Sesame Street; research agencies and think tanks like American Institutes for Research, University of Chicago, Mathematica Policy Research, IMPAQ International, The British Council, European Centre for International Political Economy, Sanigest Internacional, WASH United, Centre for Civil Society.

Innovations[edit]

Drones/UAVs for research[edit]

Outline India uses advanced technology to build detailed maps as an additional layer to qualitative and quantitative survey data. This can help enable:

Infrastructural mapping and planning:
Corroborating topographic & geospatial information
Contextualizing analysis of the drivers of inequalities
Visualization & improve planning of interventions

Track Your Metrics[edit]

Outline India is developing a self-reporting tool called 'Track Your Metrics' that seeks to enable NGOs and funders to build metrics, monitor projects and measure the impact of their work at ~ 0 unit cost. Track Your Metrics (TYM), is a platform coupled with an application developed for audit and impact metric building in the development sector. It is an attempt to automate audits via self-reported metrics. It is meant for extremely small NGOs that cannot afford audit firms and struggle to showcase growth and hence receive funding in the absence of data. At the other end, it enables big funders and donors with grantees spread out across different locations in tracking funds spent, developing macro datasets at 1/1000 the unit cost.

TYM offers the following features:

Survey Formulation: The web-platform offers pre-packaged surveys, comprising standardised, field tested surveys drawn from the works of sectoral leaders, international and national organisations, such as the UN, World Bank etc. Users can access existing questions from pre-packaged surveys after selecting their specific sector, sub-sector and indicators. The platform allows users to create their own unique surveys in order to assess the impact of their programs by selecting questions from the existing the question bank and adding their own questions to their surveys.

Data Collection: The survey can then be deployed onto the android application of Track Your Metrics. The app is currently available on android systems and can work without access to internet thereby enabling users to collect field data in remote offline areas.

Data Visualisation: Once the data has been collected, the app allows the user to deploy the survey back onto the web platform. A dashboard on the web platform allows for graphical representation of the data collected from multiple locations in the form of various charts and graphs.

Report Generation: The report generation template on the platform allows the user to create standardised reports using the graphs generated. These reports can be downloaded in a PDF format and thereafter sent to potential funders and donors.

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