Thematic Area
Education and Skills Development is a key enabler for inclusive growth and sustainable development. We work in partnership with governments and other stakeholders to create quality education and resilient training systems to equip youth with 21st-century market-relevant skills for improved livelihood opportunities and enhanced standards of living.
We provide a range of services including policy and strategy development to promote access to education and training, programme design and implementation support, including curriculum development and teacher training, development of assessment and certification systems, research and analysis for informed policy and programme development, technical assistance and capacity building support to governments, education institutions, and other stakeholders. Central to our approach is building an inclusive, equitable, and sustainable learning environment for all.
A productive, meaningful life and healthy economies depend on access to quality and affordable health care. However, in many developing countries, this continues to remain a challenge along with, balanced diet, safe water, and basic sanitation, especially for the poor and disadvantaged. We understand that investments in HNWASH, with a focus on the underserved, can transform people’s lives. Building resilient health systems to provide people with sustainable, affordable, and quality healthcare is the cornerstone of our strategy
for achieving good impact. We work with national and state governments, development partners, civil society organisations, private sector, and other key stakeholders through an evidence-based approach to strengthen health systems, improve the supply chain, implement digital health solutions, advocate social and behaviour change, and address healthcare financing challenges.
The ability of governments to achieve their social and economic goals with limited resources, largely depends on the efficiency, transparency, and flexibility of public administration institutions.
Despite the substantial progress, there are certain economies that are marked by extreme social and economic inequalities, particularly among women and marginalised groups.
We believe mainstreaming gender is critical to achieving long-term development goals. With experience in policy development, capacity building, adaptive management, community mobilisation, behaviour change communication, deepening social safety nets, beneficiary feedback analysis, poverty assessment, and evidence-based monitoring, we create inclusive and sustainable solutions. Our work can be classified into three broad areas — building girl capital, empowering women, and nurturing resilient communities.
We are building girl capital by tackling unequal access to education; bolstering their voice and agency through Sexual and Reproductive Health Education; ensuring that they gain academic and vocational knowledge, and building life skills so they have opportunities to generate income.
We are empowering women by addressing economic and normative barriers to improve the health and nutrition outcomes of women and their children and by promoting sustainable livelihoods. We use a variety of interventions to achieve women’s empowerment goals, including conditional and unconditional cash transfers, behaviour change interventions to challenge social and gender norms, and improved access to social protection programmes.
We are nurturing resilient communities by promoting locally relevant climate adaptation packages, developing a hyper-granular vulnerability index for introducing climate-smart agriculture practices among small and marginal farmers, and conducting research in resilient food systems.
Community Empowerment for Advancing Equity
Effective States for Inclusive Development
The world’s urban population is increasing exponentially. With a growing number of informal settlements, inadequate and overburdened infrastructure, and services (such as waste collection, water and sanitation systems, roads, and transport), worsening air pollution, and unplanned urban spaces, there is a need to build cities that are inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
With in-depth experience in this domain, we leverage our people capabilities and technology to provide holistic solutions that navigate through complex urban challenges, improve quality of life and drive smart growth. We advise governments in developing countries including South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa on how to tackle urban sustainability challenges by developing and implementing strategies for a low-carbon, and sustainable future. Our expertise is well-paced with national & international best practices, especially in the core areas of smart cities, climate-resilient infrastructure, water management solutions, sustainable waste management, sanitation, green infrastructure interventions, innovative construction technologies, and social & gender inclusion.
Tourism is a vital industry that contributes significantly to the economic, social, and cultural development of nations. It is an engine for job creation, generates foreign exchange earnings, and stimulates the growth of other sectors such as transportation, hospitality, and retail. Moreover, it plays a critical role in promoting cross-cultural understanding and appreciation, fosters global cooperation, and strengthens the bond between nations. Lastly, tourism can help promote environmental conservation and sustainability.
We have established ourselves in the tourism development and consultancy sector, securing many awards in recent years.
Robust policies & and programmes are data-backed and driven by strong and demonstrable evidence. Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy Analysis and Learning (MEPAL) is an established practice at AnuVridhi that offers cross-cutting services across various thematic areas such as health, nutrition and WASH, education and skills, agriculture, livelihoods and market systems, food systems, climate change, gender and social inclusion, and urban & rural development.
We work closely with our partners to design and implement flexible, participatory, and inclusive approaches that provide solutions to inform and improve the future delivery, design, programming, and policies. With gender and inclusion being a key component of our work, we ensure that our frameworks and tools are rooted in the best evaluative practices. We have an established track record in conducting complex and large-scale monitoring and evaluation assignments. Through our work, we help our partners improve performance and accountability so that Value for Money (VfM) can be optimised. We have delivered more than 80 MEPAL assignments nationally and have worked extensively with governments (national, sub-national, and local), multilateral and bilateral organisations, philanthropies, corporate foundations, international/domestic non-governmental organisations (INGOs), and international research institutes. We also hold exclusive global and national long-term/empanelment agreements with Different organisations.
Challenge Funds, Grant Funds, and Managed Funds are used increasingly by international development agencies and other partners to mitigate market risks while spurring innovation to fight poverty and environmental degradation.
We provide a comprehensive range of Grant and Challenge Fund management services that support both social & business-oriented enterprise Challenge Funds. This includes fund design, calls for proposals, appraisal and selection of candidates, performance and risk management, procurement, and capacity strengthening. Having worked on various funding schemes across sectors, we recognise the importance of carefully tailoring the design of Challenge Funds to meet donors’ development objectives. We believe in establishing open and supportive relationships with our partners and creating a productive balance between compliance, risk management, and constructive support.
A robust public financial management system is the cornerstone of quality governance, particularly in developing economies. Today, public institutions are under immense pressure to modernise and increase transparency to provide better outcomes for citizens. Transparent and equitable public finances provide a platform for governments to deliver a strong enabling environment for business and effective public services. Our specialised team works in all aspects of the Public Financial Management (PFM) cycle to enhance its efficiency right from planning to resource allocation, and spending. We ensure adequacy, appropriateness, efficiency, effectiveness, and equity in our progress.
We work with governments (national, state, provincial, and counties), bilateral & multilateral organisations, and international & non-governmental organisations (INGOs) for developing efficient systems to ensure accountability in the management of limited public resources. We provide technical assistance on medium-term expenditure reviews, budgeting, financial monitoring, feasibility studies, and maintenance of financial records, thus strengthening public finances.
