Dr. Ananya Samajdar
Deputy Director - Research
Dr. Ananya Samajdar is Deputy Director for research at GRAAM. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the National University of Singapore. Along with heading the research team, she has handled studies for WHO, NHSRC, Karnataka Evaluation Authority, and UNICEF. In her previous job at TISS, she has worked with MHRD on higher education and academic leadership projects and with Coal India on influencing their CSR activities.
Her other interests include singing and listening to Hindustani Classical Music (vocal).
Projects Handled
| Sl. No | Project Name | Assignment Partner | Thematic Area | Functional Area | Assignment Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evaluation of National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) | Development, Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO), Niti Aayog | Governance and Democratization | Social Impact Assessment & Evaluation | Sep 2024 Jan 2025 |
| 2 | Voice of Students survey and Voice of students Conference | Anahata United Effots Foundation | Indigenous Community Development | Development Research | Dec 2023 Feb 2024 |
| 3 | Tracer Study for Technical Vocational Education and Training TVET Employment Outcomes of Graduates from ITIs in Karnataka | Karnataka Evaluation Authority | Learning, Skill Development and Livelihood | Social Impact Assessment & Evaluation | Jan 2023 Apr 2024 |
| 4 | Evaluation of an implementation of Graduation Approach by The/Nudge Institute in North Karnataka | N/A | Learning, Skill Development and Livelihood | Development Research | N/A |
| 5 | NISHTHA: Transforming Comprehensive Healthcare in India | Jhpiego | Public Health | Community Consultation | Dec 2020 Mar 2023 |
| 6 | To support case-study on Civil-society Participation in India’s Pandemic Response | World Health Organisation | Public Health | Development Research | Sep 2022 Feb 2023 |
| 7 | Rapid policy assessment and analysis to identify gaps that need interventions for integrated NCD service delivery | World Health Organisation | Public Health | Development Research | Oct 2022 Dec 2022 |
| 8 | Developing a Roadmap of Social Enterprise Ecosystem as a Precursor for a viable Social Stock Exchange in India | NABARD | Governance and Democratization | Impact Innovation and Knowledge Consulting (IIKCON) | Jun 2019 Jun 2020 |
| 9 | Research & Strategic Consultation for the Establishment of NR Foundation’s PwD Skill and Employment Facilitation Centre | NR Foundation | Learning, Skill Development and Livelihood | Impact Innovation and Knowledge Consulting (IIKCON) | Aug 2018 Dec 2018 |
| 10 | Demand Side Assessment of Primary Health Care in Assam | World Health Organisation | Public Health | Development Research | Sep 2019 Jun 2020 |
| 11 | Outsourcing Formulation of Policy Options and Legal Implications for Enabling Prescription and Dispensing by Mid-Level Health Workers and Nurses for Primary Health Care in India. | World Health Organisation | Public Health | Development Research | Jun 2019 Dec 2019 |
| 12 | A study on inclusion of vulnerable sections in the MGNREGA of Karnataka | Department of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, Government of Karnataka | Indigenous Community Development | Development Research | Oct 2022 Dec 2023 |
| 13 | Perspectives and practices of tribal traditional healers on health and health systems across different states of India: Mixed method study | Piramal swasthya | Public Health | Development Research | Dec 2022 Dec 2023 |
| 14 | A Study of Tribal Livelihood, Karnataka | National Commission for Scheduled Tribes | Indigenous Community Development | Development Research | Mar 2022 Dec 2022 |
| 15 | A study of the health status needs and access of the nomadic tribes of Jammu and Kashmir | World Health Organisation | Public Health | Development Research | May 2023 Dec 2023 |
| 16 | India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2022-23 | National Council of Applied Economic Research | Governance and Democratization | Development Research | Nov 2022 Mar 2023 |
| 17 | Evaluation of Samagra Shikshana Karnataka from 2018-19 to 2020-21 | Karnataka Evaluation Authority | Learning, Skill Development and Livelihood | Social Impact Assessment & Evaluation | Jan 2023 May 2024 |
| 18 | Voice of Students Survey | N/A | Learning, Skill Development and Livelihood | Policy Engagement | Dec 2023 Feb 2024 |
| 19 | Tracer Study for Technical Vocational Education and Training TVET Employment Outcomes of Graduates from ITIs in Karnataka | Karnataka Evaluation Authority | Learning, Skill Development and Livelihood | Social Impact Assessment & Evaluation | Jan 2023 Nov 2023 |
| 20 | Introduction to Public Policy- IPP | N/A | Learning, Skill Development and Livelihood | Academic Programs | Jan 2022 Oct 2023 |
| 21 | Certificate Program: Introduction to Public Policy | Quality Council of India | Learning, Skill Development and Livelihood | Academic Programs | Jan 2019 Dec 2022 |
| 22 | Impact Evaluation of MyQuest Programme in Tamil Nadu and Gujarat | QUEST Alliance | Learning, Skill Development and Livelihood | Social Impact Assessment & Evaluation | Sep 2021 Nov 2022 |
| 23 | Development of State of the 21st Century Skills Sector Report | UNICEF | Learning, Skill Development and Livelihood | Development Research | Oct 2021 Feb 2022 |
| 24 | Assessment of the Implementation of Ayushmaan Bharat Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWC) in India | National Health System Resource Centre (NHSRC) | Public Health | Social Impact Assessment & Evaluation | Oct 2020 Jun 2021 |
| 25 | Evaluation of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) in Karnataka | Karnataka Evaluation Authority | Learning, Skill Development and Livelihood | Social Impact Assessment & Evaluation | Jan 2019 Mar 2020 |
| 26 | Evaluation and Impact Assessment of Skill Development Program for Less Privileged Youth under Titan’s Corporate Social Responsibility | Titan Comany Limited | Learning, Skill Development and Livelihood | Social Impact Assessment & Evaluation | Aug 2018 Mar 2019 |
| 27 | Midline Evaluation of Prerepana Project | NR Foundation, SVYM | Learning, Skill Development and Livelihood | Social Impact Assessment & Evaluation | Dec 2018 Mar 2019 |
- Ko, Kilkon and Ananya Samajdar. 2010. Evaluation of International Corruption Indexes: Should We Believe Them or Not? The Social Science Journal 47: 508-40.
- Samajdar, Ananya. 2011. Accountability and Performance: A Study of Rural Local Government in the Indian State of West Bengal. Annual International Conference on Political Science, Sociology and International Relations 2011 (PSSIR 2011), 7-8 November, Singapore [published in Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Political Science, Sociology and International Relations (PSSIR 2011), 7-8 November 2011, Singapore, published by Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF) and indexed by EBSCO and CrossRef].
- Samajdar, Ananya. 2012. An Assessment of Local Government Accountability: Mechanisms and their Operation in GramPanchayats in Two Indian States. International Conference on Public Administration (8th ICPA), 25-27th October 2012, Hyderabad, India [published in Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Public Administration (8th) (Volume 1), published by University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Press (UESTC Press), Chengdu, People’s Republic of China].
- Samajdar, Ananya. 2016. Far Beyond RUSA: Book Review of “RUSA- As Quality Intervention in the Higher Education Sector” (2016), edited by Dalip Kumar and published by Chandigarh Post Graduate Government College for Girls and Unistar Books Pvt Ltd. University News 54 (31): 30-3 (August 01-07).
- Samajdar, Ananya. 2017. Democracy, Capacity and Performance in Panchayats: Exploring the Dilemma and the Debate in Abhijit Bhattacharya and Mousumi Ghatak (eds.)Rural Development Programmes in India: Effectiveness and Evaluation. Serials Publications Pvt Ltd. Sarma,
- Rohan and Ananya Samajdar. 2017. Healthy Balance Sheets and Unhealthy Communities : Practitioner Perspectives on CSR Initiatives of Public Sector Enterprises in India in S. Siva Raju (ed.) Corporate Social Responsibility in India: Some Empirical Evidence. Springer Singapore.