National Policies and Strategies
Where we work: India
With the world’s largest population and a fast-growing economy, India has enormous development potential in the medium and long term. While the country is still recovering from CoViD-19, new risks and challenges are emerging. According to the Global Climate Risk Index 2021, India is the 7th most climate-affected nation. Slowing agricultural growth, labour force unavailability, reduction in area under production, and credit demand to revive non-food sectors may add to slowing down the economy and increasing inflation.
To address one or more of these challenges and help build stronger domestic policies, the CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies in India is working on (i) Understanding policy coherence across the Food, Land, and Water sectors; (ii) catalyzing coherence among all the CGIAR initiatives operating in India; (iii) Developing tools for public expenditure analyses and Social Accounting Matrix (SAM); and (iv) Facilitating response to policy demand and crises through analysis and evaluation of social protection programs like MGNREGA (India’s massive rural employment guarantee program), Atal Bhujal Yojana (campaign for improved, participatory groundwater management), initiative for crop diversification in Punjab and Haryana, Government of Odisha’s tribal empowerment and livelihood improvement program, and so on.
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