CLEAR-SA Delivers Evaluation Training to Civil Servants in Bihar, India
In March, more than 50 civil servants from the Government of Bihar’s Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (JEEViKA) attended a two-day monitoring and evaluation (M&E) workshop in Bihar, a state in eastern India.
The workshop—run by the Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results for South Asia (CLEAR-SA) and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL South Asia)—was aimed at building the capacity of JEEViKA staff by introducing essential M&E principles including the use of evidence, process monitoring, and data analysis and visualization.
The training participants work on the Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana (SJY) program, a scale-up of the Graduation Approach – a livelihoods program designed to lift ultra-poor households out of poverty. The Graduation Approach seeks to help the poor transition to more secure livelihoods by providing cash or food support, livelihood supplies, banking services, and mentoring support. This approach has already lifted millions out of extreme poverty in 50 countries. JEEViKA plans to take SJY to 200,000 households in Bihar, reaching approximately one million people, by the end of 2024. To ensure the effective delivery of SJY across the state, J-PAL South Asia performs extensive field research and process monitoring.
For more information on the SJY program, and the work of CLEAR/J-PAL South Asia with JEEViKA and technical implementation partner Bandhan-Konnagar, please read Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana: Ending Ultra Poverty at Scale, a playbook developed for government and civil society organizations working to end extreme poverty.