EvalYouth India was established in November 2020 by EvalYouth Asia through its Country Chapters Project, funded by the EvalYouth Global Network. EvalYouth India serves as the Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEE) body of Evaluation Community of India (ECOI, the national VOPE). EvalYouth India aims to promote YEEs (women and men) to become competent, experienced and well-networked professionals who contribute to evaluation capacity at national, regional and international levels. It plans to promote Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEEs), build their capacities, and expose them through networks to other evaluators to promote peer learning.

ECOI functions as a professional community for promoting an evaluation culture in the country and foster policy making and program planning, driven by evidence based decision making with focus on social equity, gender equality and sustainability. It provides a platform for interactions and knowledge and experience sharing within evaluation community and other stakeholders in development to ensure that professionalism, quality and ethics permeate all evaluations and to make them utility oriented.

Magic Bus India Foundation (popularly known as Magic Bus) is one of the top five NGOs in the education and skilling space in India. Founded in Mumbai in 1999, we have grown into an organisation with a pan-India presence. Magic Bus works with young people living in poverty, taking them from a childhood full of challenges to a life with meaningful livelihoods. We work with young people’s ecosystems (parents, peers, community, and local institutions) to create a network of support for them.

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of more than 1,000 researchers at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty.

J-PAL co-founders Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, with longtime affiliate Michael Kremer, were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics for their pioneering approach to alleviating global poverty.