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Sunai Consultancy Driving Collective Initiatives supported by Reliable Data

Sunai Consultancy is serving since 2005. Our service impact is at the very grassroot level as well as at the national-global level.

A child learned to read, a woman returned to their in-laws, performance of teachers in the government primary school improved, better mid-day meal quality, hand pump got repaired… these endless impacts are driven by collective initiatives of residents. Niwasi Sabha resources | niwais.in

Bridge Business Initiative

Sunai Conultancy works with free lancer ground staff. Whenever a project arrives to Sunai, it reach out to the free lancer surveyors. Sunai also has developed program of resident’s collective initiatives. Sunai team members has exposures to business initiatives.

In this background, Sunai has taken this initiative of Bridge Business. Free lancer surveyors are encouraged to undertake business initiatives on their own. Sunai will assist in various ways like providing training, providing data support, MIS support and linkages with produces and service providers. Details can be found on http://pank.niwasi.in

One key service for Residents Empowerment is ‘Swachh Aaspados Campaign’. This campaign was applied in 3 municipal wards of Patna with over 20000 families, businesses, and school children for the research project “Solid Waste Management Provision in Bihar for Community Service” of London School Economics in 2022.

MAPAN surveys by Sunai Consultancy have been for some of the largest and impactful reports published in recent times. Some are : Teenage Girls Report (TAG); RECOUP ‘Political Economy of Education in India’; The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India; Social Protection For A Changing India…

  • 15 years of operations
  • 208 MAPAN survey projects in sectors like Poverty Alleviation, Primary Education, Child Protection, Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Health, Women Empowerment, Livelihood and others.
  • Over 7,00,000 surveys of randomly selected respondents spread across large geography.

Surveys and studies MAPAN (M - Measurable; A - Authentic; P - Plain; A - Appropriate; N - Neutral;) CLICK SURVEY REQUIREMENT

Sunai also volunteers for the social organization Ethical Foundation which is exclusively devoted to promoting the Collective Initiative of Residents. We support – मिलें कुछ करें (Meet and Act to do something!).

Scale of operations

Sunai collected data of over 7,00,000 randomised samples during 15 years in over 200 projects covering varied sectors. Sunai conducted some of the large surveys across different development sectors like education, sanitation, livelihood, nutrition, etc. for clients from multilateral agencies, universities, NGOs with global, national and local presence.

At least 8 projects have state wide scale. And there were 20 projects that involved 2 or more states. In 5 projects, scale of survey were over 25,000 surveys. With sample size over 5000, we did over 60 surveys.

Key Impacts

Contributions and Credentials : some of the key reports published where Sunai is proud contributor

  • Report on the RECOUP ‘Political Economy of Education in India’ project by Geeta Kingdon and Mohd. Muzmmil January 2008
  • The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India, Swati Dhingra* and Stephen Machin*, September 2020
  • In mid 2000's MIT JPAL launched its survey operation in Bihar. Sunai did data collections for impact assessment of Read India program of Pratham.
  • SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR A CHANGING INDIA, report by The World Bank :
  • HUNGaMA : Naandi conducted survey to fight Hunger and Malnutrition survey all over India. Sunai contributed in tools development and conducted surveys in Bihar, Uttar Prades and Bihar with over 60,000 samples covering.
  • Teenage Girls Report (TAG) : Sunai again is partner of Naandi in preparing TAG report where Sunai not only contributed in tools development, designing india wide survey but also collected data from 8 states of India.
  • Annual Assessment Education Report (ASER, Pratham). Sunai is proud partner of all versions of ASER in data crunching and data management. Sunai team

Reports and Process Manuals written : Following reports are written by Sunai team

  • Status of Street Children in four cities of Jharkhand for Chetna Vikas implementation partner of Plan International.
  • SC-ST Schools in Bihar for UNICEF Bihar
  • ‘Status Report on Eye Care’ for Akhand Jyoti.
  • Standard Process Survey Manual internal to Sunai
  • Analysis Tabulation ASER Reports
  • Process documentation on Mgnregs in Bihar for the World Bank.
  • Niwasi Sabha processes internal
  • Awareness on Sanitation in the villages of Bihar internal

Distinguished Clients : Sunai has worked for some of the distinguished organisations

NCAER, IDinsight, Mart Rural, Human Development Foundation (HDF), PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited, Nevaeh Technology Pvt. Ltd, Clinton Foundation, JPAL South Asia (MIT, US), World Bank, UNICEF, ASER Center & Pratham, London School of Education, Oxford University, Naandi Foundation, Center for Micro Finance, Education Resource Unit, University of Pennsylvania and more.

Sector covered

Livelihook, Local Governance, Self governance, Education, Women and Child Welfare, Health, Nutrition, Early Childhood care, Agriculture, and others.

Legal status

Sunai Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. is registered under the Company 2013.

Team

Pranav Kr. Chaudhary : Pranav worked with Pratham for 6 years before founding Sunai. Now it is about 20 years of experience in development sector. He head Sunai Consultancy. He did his B. Tech. from IIT Mumbai.

Sudhakar Sinha : Sudhakar was a member in national operations team of Pratham for over 2 years before founding Sunai. He is master in computer application. He is director at Sunai Consultancy.

Vikas Kr. Chaudhary : Vikas core responsibility is developing IT solution for Sunai service. He own and heads technology company Triline Infotech. He is B. Tech. in communication Technology.

Satyendra Kumar : Satyendra Kumar is with Sunai for about 12 years and he is lead person to implement data collection exercise. He has graduation in psychology from Magadh University.

Sunai has strong team of trained and experienced field supervisors backed by empaneled personnel of free lancing field investigators across states of India.