Sambodhi
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Sambodhi (research organisation)
Sambodhi Research and Communications Pvt. Ltd. (often shortened to Sambodhi) is an India-based global advisory and research organisation.[1] It works with governments, multilateral agencies, philanthropies, corporations, and civil society to design and deliver data-driven solutions for challenges around social impact and development.
Sambodhi is headquartered in Noida, India, and reports operational presence in South Asia, Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and North America.
History and body of work
Sambodhi was founded in 2005 by a group of researchers and evaluation specialists comprising Kultar Singh, Swapnil Shekhar, Dharmendra Chandurkar, and Nitin Sharma.[1] It conducts monitoring and evaluation, with a particular focus on impact evaluations, as well as learning (MEL), large-scale surveys, implementation research, data analytics, strategic communications, and training. Its projects cover several domains such as education, health, sustainability, livelihood, climate resilience, governance and policy, and gender.[2][3]
It also works in capacity development and has reported training over 10,000 professionals worldwide in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Evidence Use frameworks.[4][5][citation needed]
Sambodhi has conducted multiple independent and collaborative evaluations for programmes including, amongst others:
- The Walmart Foundation’s Market Access Program for women farmers in India[6]
- End-line evaluation of reforms to the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) in Odisha for the UN World Food Programme (WFP)[7]
- Impact evaluation of the PMKVY 2.0 skills programme for the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE)[8]
- Scale-up evaluation of Educate Girls’ Audacious Project in collaboration with IDinsight[9]
Partnerships, subsidiaries, and other initiatives
Sambodhi has participated in several multi-partner consortia and collaborative initiatives, both in India and abroad. It is empanelled as one of the local partners in the USAID-funded Agency for All (AforAll) initiative (2022-2027), stewarded by the University of California, San Diego, which focuses on community-led accountability for health and family planning.[10] As part of the AforAll collaboration, Sambodhi conducted the formative research for the Respectful Maternity Care (RMC) program, implemented by the Centre for Catalysing Change (C3) as part of the White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) for Safe Motherhood and funded by MacArthur Foundation.[11]
Sambodhi is also an institutional member of the Community of Evaluators South Asia (CoE-SA) and has had academic and research partnerships with leading institutions including Stanford University and Duke University.[12][13]
It also operates several subsidiaries, initiatives, and collaborative projects such as:
- Development Intelligence Unit (DIU), a joint initiative by Sambodhi and Transform Rural India that applies public data to provide policy-relevant intelligence to maximise social impact.[14][15]
- SCLI (Sambodhi Center for Learning and Innovation), its capacity-building arm.
- Vayam, Sambodhi's registered non-profit subsidiary under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. It holds 12A, 80G, and CSR-1 certifications, allowing it to receive philanthropic and CSR contributions.[16]
- Nimbli.ai, its proprietary AI platform which offers a suite of cloud-based solutions for data collection, processing, and learning for enterprise users.
- Education Nest, a learning and knowledge exchange platform.
Publications
Experts associated with Sambodhi have contributed research insights in several publications, including:
- The digital wall: How caste shapes access to technology in India, an analysis of the Digital India initiative and the challenges it still faced due to persistent caste-based disparities in internet access, mobile ownership, and digital skills.[17]
- Budget 2024: Sitharaman pushes for climate change & self-reliance, falls short on dairy sector's demands, a story evaluating allocations for the agriculture sector in the Union Budget 2024 with comments from Sambodhi’s senior agriculture researcher Abhishek Sharma.[18]
- Promoting National Pension Scheme in rural India, an analysis of how India’s growing smartphone penetration and digital connectivity can be utilised to ensure greater coverage of the National Pension Scheme in rural and semiurban geographies.[19]
- Media stories by publications such as Hindustan Times, Business Standard, The New Indian Express, Livemint, The Economic Times, and ThePrint covering the release of Sambodhi’s State of Marginal Farmers of India – 2024 report.[20][21][22][23]
- A joint survey conducted by Livemint and Data Intelligence Unit to gauge the awareness and willingness to address climate change amongst Indians.[24][25]
- Coverage of a Sambodhi Panels report on Indians‘ readiness to deal with COVID-19 at home by NDTV, The Hindu, Quartz, Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, The New Indian Express, and Outlook India.[26][27][28]
Research papers published by Sambodhi researchers include:
- Evaluation capacity development in India: gaps, challenges, and opportunities, a chapter in Handbook for Public Policy Evaluation in the Global South.[29]
- A scoping review of health systems resilience assessment frameworks, a research article published on PLOS Global Public Health.[30]
- Adoption and Scaling Regenerative Agriculture: Strategies for Sustainable Resource Management in Rice-Based Systems.[31]
- Evaluation of large-scale deforestation susceptibility mapping in the mountainous region of the Himalayas: A case study of the Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve, India.[32]
- Ed-Tech in India: The quest for child privacy and well-being.[33]
- Persistence and heterogeneity of the effects of educating mothers to improve child immunisation uptake: Experimental evidence from Uttar Pradesh in India.[34]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "SAMBODHI RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED". ZaubaCorp. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ Mathur, Barkha. "India's Urban Poor, Rural Population Ill-Prepared To Deal With COVID Infection At Household Level, Finds Survey | News". swachhindia.ndtv.com. Archived from the original on 2024-09-17. Retrieved 2025-11-17. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Digital Readiness of States for Direct Benefit Transfer of Fertiliser Subsidy | Economic and Political Weekly". www.epw.in. 2023-08-18. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ Panda, Rajmohan; Lahoti, Supriya; Mishra, Nivedita; Prabhu, Rajath R.; Singh, Kalpana; Rai, Apoorva Karan; Rai, Kumud (2024-04-23). "A mixed methods evaluation of the impact of ECHO® telementoring model for capacity building of community health workers in India". Human Resources for Health. 22 (1): 26. doi:10.1186/s12960-024-00907-y. ISSN 1478-4491. PMC 11040797 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 38654359 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ "Capacity Building and Training - Sambodhi". 2024-06-22. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ "'Women farmers more productive than men'". The Times of India. 2024-07-18. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ "India, Target Public Distribution Reforms in Bhubaneswar: Evaluation | World Food Programme". www.wfp.org. 2019-11-19. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ Impact Evaluation of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) 2.0 - link
- ↑ 2019-2025 scale-up evaluation - external link
- ↑ "Partners". Agency for All. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ www.c3india.org https://www.c3india.org/promoting-respectful-maternity-care-in-india. Retrieved 2025-11-17. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Community of Evaluators South Asia Member List - external link
- ↑ "Study of Disease Care Initiative in India Supported By Gates Foundation". globalhealth.duke.edu. 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ Choubey, Jitendra (2025-08-08). "CSR spending heavily concentrated in six states, report flags neglect of underdeveloped regions". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ "CSR Inequality: 60% of Corporate Funds Go to Top 6 States in India". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ "Home Main - Vayam". 2024-07-29. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ "The digital wall: How caste shapes access to technology in India". India Development Review. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ "Budget 2024: Sitharaman pushes for climate change & self-reliance, falls short on dairy sector's demands". Firstpost (in fp). 2024-07-23. Archived from the original on 2024-07-26. Retrieved 2025-11-17. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) - ↑ Ghosh, Sandeep (2023-10-25). "Promoting National Pension Scheme in rural India". BusinessLine. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ "Extreme weather, erratic rain hurt marginal farmers: Report". Hindustan Times. 2024-06-26. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ Paul, Nandita Venkatesan,Manjul (2024-06-25). "In charts: The toll of climate crisis on India's marginal farmers". mint. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ "80% of marginal farmers in India affected by adverse climatic events: Report". The Economic Times. 2024-06-25. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ Malhotra, Gauri (2024-06-27). "Marginal farmers consistently lost over 50% crops in past 5 yrs due to extreme climate conditions". ThePrint. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ Livemint (2023-12-18). "Climate awareness in India is far from ideal". mint. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ Paul, Manjul (2023-12-11). "Do Indians care about climate change? Here's what our survey found". mint. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ "Covid preparedness remains a challenge for many households: Survey". The Indian Express. 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ Kaiser, Ejaz (2021-07-25). "Preparedness level of Indians to deal with COVID-19 at homes remain abysmally low". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ "Ahead of Covid Third Wave, Indian Households Remain Shockingly Unprepared". Outlook India. 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ www.elgaronline.com https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781035351909/chapter10.xml. Retrieved 2025-11-17. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Dsouza, Sushma Marita; Katyal, Anuradha; Kalaskar, Shrikant; Kabeer, Mehnaz; Rewaria, Latika; Satyanarayana, Sreemeena; Nallamalla, Krishna Reddy; Chokshi, Maulik (2024-09-23). "A scoping review of health systems resilience assessment frameworks". PLOS Global Public Health. 4 (9): e0003658. doi:10.1371/journal.pgph.0003658. ISSN 2767-3375. PMC 11419368 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 39312539 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Bharamappanavara, Saikumar C.; Srivastava, Yash; Baraj, Biswaranjan; Mishra, Ajay Kumar (2024), Mishra, Ajay Kumar; Sharma, Sheetal; Mishra, Antaryami, eds., "Adoption and Scaling Regenerative Agriculture: Strategies for Sustainable Resource Management in Rice-Based Systems", Key Drivers and Indicators of Soil Health Management: Transitioning from Conventional to Regenerative Agriculture, Singapore: Springer Nature, pp. 173–195, doi:10.1007/978-981-97-7564-4_10, ISBN 978-981-97-7564-4, retrieved 2025-11-17
- ↑ Ongmu Bhutia, Karma Detsen; Mishra, Manoranjan; Guria, Rajkumar; Baraj, Biswaranjan; Naik, Arun Kumar; Silva, Richarde Marques da; do Nascimento, Thiago Victor Medeiros; Santos, Celso Augusto Guimarães (2024-11-01). "Evaluation of large-scale deforestation susceptibility mapping in the mountainous region of the Himalayas: A case study of the Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve, India". Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment. 36. Bibcode:2024RSASE..3601285O. doi:10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101285. ISSN 2352-9385. Unknown parameter
|article-number=ignored (help) - ↑ FOUNDATION, OBSERVER RESEARCH. "Ed-Tech in India: The quest for child privacy and well-being". orfonline.org. Retrieved 2025-11-18.
- ↑ O'Neill, Stephen; Grieve, Richard; Singh, Kultar; Dutt, Varun; Powell-Jackson, Timothy (2024-06-01). "Persistence and heterogeneity of the effects of educating mothers to improve child immunisation uptake: Experimental evidence from Uttar Pradesh in India". Journal of Health Economics. 96. doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2024.102899. ISSN 0167-6296. PMID 38805881 Check
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