CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY, PRACTICE AND INTERVENTIONS (CEPPI)

CEPPI shall operate in collaboration with a host university and ensure "value added" to the university through securing international policy research projects, helping students and researchers to learn out of those projects, import evidence-based skills and improve host’s “brand” internationally..

CEPPI’s Vision:

The Centre aims to achieve national leadership in evidence-based decision making and policy design support. The Centre will work with central, state and local policymakers to use high-quality evidence to guide decisions, maximize resources and improve outcomes. In the long run, South Asian governments could also become the Centre’s clients.

CEPPI’s Mission:

Use of evidence-based methods to help governments and institutions to strengthen their policy decisions about their developmental efforts in the areas of health, education, agriculture, environment, public & social policy, and resource management.

CEPPI’s think-tank features:

Meta-analysis guides policy decisions through giving analytical picture of large populations and areas for a particular problem. This is a quantitative synthesis of research findings which helps mainly to compare or combine the findings of systematically chosen primary studies from a population. By combining results, a policymaker assesses the magnitude and significance of various statistical measures which provide details on populations. By comparing results, a policymaker is interested in identifying moderators of effect sizes i.e. characteristics of populations. It also identifies sources of similarities and differences in results across studies within a large population. In sum, conducting a meta-analysis is one of the most compelling ways to develop policy based on empirical findings.

• Initial Scope: Health, Social Care & Welfare, Education, Agriculture & Infrastructure Development.
• Political Space:
• State & National
• Local Bodies
• Regional (SAARC)
• Values: Evidence-Based, Nationalistic, Regionalist, Uniform Development.
• Approach: low key head start, simple & steady, careful use of media.
• Advisors: subject experts, civil servants, fundraisers, communications, management (from India or international)
• Funding International as well as domestic./li>

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