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Odisha govt signs MoU with Abhijit Banerjee founded J-PAL
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SME Times News Bureau | 31 Oct, 2019
The Odisha government on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia
to engage in a strategic evidence-based approach to policy making.
The partnership targets to maximise the impact of anti-poverty programmes of the state across a wide range of sectors.
J-PAL
is co-founded by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, joint winners of
2019 Nobel Prize in economics for their experimental approach to
alleviating global poverty.
Under this partnership, J-PAL South
Asia will provide the Odisha government technical assistance for scaling
up evidence backed programmes to improve development outcomes across
the state, said a statement from the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) here.
Commensurate
with the 5T programme of the state government, this partnership aims at
bringing transformation in the lives of people through research based
intervention in policy formulation.
The partnership also
establishes an overarching collaboration between J-PAL South Asia and
the state government under which J-PAL will work with several
departments to conduct policy-relevant randomised evaluations of new
anti-poverty and development programmes, the statement said.
Additionally,
a diagnostic exercise and subsequent workshops will be conducted to
build state capacity in the area of monitoring and evaluation.
The
MoU was signed by Odisha Development Commissioner Suresh Mahapatra and
Executive Director of J-PAL South Asia Shobhini Mukerji in the presence
of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here.
The Chief Minister
expressed hope that this partnership will result in actualising Team
Odisha's efforts to transform the state by addressing its growing
aspirations.
"J-PAL South Asia is very excited to enter into
collaboration with the government of Odisha, which has been focusing on
transforming outcomes and improving efficiency through a number of
initiatives," said Shobhini Mukerji.
"We look forward to working
closely with them on this journey of advancing evidence informed
policymaking in the state," she added.
J-PAL and the state
government will conduct an annual policy dialogue to identify the
government's top policy priorities, conduct discussions to share
evidence, and jointly come up with innovative solutions that can be
field-tested through rigorous randomised evaluations.
Topics for
the policy dialogues include malnutrition, women's empowerment, distress
migration, health-worker performance, and improving agricultural
productivity.
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