The Centre for Development Finance

Helping Markets and States Work for Development

Featured Initiative

Environmental Quality and Justice
Koyel Mandal

This initiative seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of current institutional arrangements for enforcing environmental legislation and regulations in India and identifying ways in which implementation can be improved.

Researchers

Initiatives

Unpacking Urban Informality
Nithya Raman

This collection of projects attempts to deepen our understanding of urban informality in a historical context, both of slums and informal livelihood activities, and present strategies that can improve conditions for slumdwellers and informal sector workers by working within existing urban institutional structures.

Inclusive Planning and Infrastructure
David Fuente

Projects in this initiative seek to understand and document the ways in which city residents access land, infrastructure, and services in practice, particularly the urban poor. Building on this knowledge and with a focus on the poor, projects also suggest means of improving the quality of and access to services.

Sustainable Urban Infrastructure
David Fuente

Examines policies and practices that promote environmentally sustainable urban development.

Publications

Impact Evaluation and Public Sector Programs in India: What can we do Right Now?
Author(s):Elizabeth Mathew
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This paper explores the existing gaps in the way CSS’ are evaluated for their impact in the Indian public sector. The authors identify an 'ideal type' model for a public sector impact evaluation mechanism that would be both effective and feasible to implement. The authors conclude with a brief forecast of why such steps might be resisted, and provide recommendations of how to overcome resistance to enable near-term improvements to the current evaluation culture.

The Role of civil society in the climate arena; Final Draft for Oxfam, March 2010
Author(s):Sujatha Byravan
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Forced to Move:Preparing for a tsunami of migration; Column in India Together, July 2010
Author(s):Sujatha Byravan
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Program areas

Research Network

CDF Network of researchers who collaborate on various projects

Rural Infrastructure and Governance

RIG works with governments, social entrepreneurs, and civil society groups to improve the efficacy of public and private development finance for critical infrastructure and services throughout rural India.

Urban Infrastructure and Governance

UIG conducts research and engages public and private sector stakeholders to develop solutions to promote inclusive access to high quality infrastructure and services.

Environmentally Sustainable Finance

We support scalable private and community interventions as well as policies to make India's economy more environmentally sustainable from the bottom up.

Strategy Advisory Group

We draw on cutting edge academic research, business management tools, and systems development expertise to help socially-focused organizations and entrepreneurs catalyze their impact on development in India.

Development Metrics

Seeking to break the information asymmetry at various levels to foster development

Akshai Abraham

Elizabeth Mathew

Tina Sharma

Sachin Shukla

Chinmaya Kumar

Shannon Spanhake

Kalpana Karunakaran

Muthukumaran Krishnamoorthi

David Fuente

Ragunaathbabu