Evaluate schemes for better outcomes December 21, 2020, 9:15 PM IST
Alok Mishra is the Deputy Director-General, Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office, NITI Aayog where he oversees evaluation studies, external engagement, and capacity building initiatives. Prior to this, he served as the senior deputy director at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, as director (IITs and IIITs) and director (international cooperation) at the Ministry of Education, and in the media units of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Alok holds a master’s in public policy and management from IIM-Bangalore and Syracuse University, USA.
Vijay Avinandan is the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), NITI Aayog. He has more than seven years of experience in monitoring and evaluation (M&E), across sectors such as public health and nutrition, education, water, sanitation, hygiene, and livelihoods in India and East Afric
WFP India Country Brief, October 2020
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As part of WFP’s COVID-19 response, WFP continues to provide technical support to SAMARTH, a frontline civil society organization. SAMARTH has now identified and registered 19,000 vulnerable households and distributed food packets to 13,800 of them, including those with sex workers, transgender, migrants, and members who are chronically ill or have a disability.
Operational Updates
Promoting Access to Food
• WFP is supporting the Government’s efforts to increase awareness of the expansion of their food-based safety nets entitlements as part of the COVID-19 response. To this aim, WFP and its partner SPHERE India are expanding the awareness campaign to an additional seven cities, aiming to reach 10 million government beneficiaries through billboards, banners, posters, pamphlets and radio spots.
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