Building policymaker capacity to use evidence: A long-term partnership

In order to improve the delivery of social programs, public officials and civil servants must be effective users and producers of evidence. LBS National Academy of Administration—India’s premier civil service training academy—signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with J-PAL South Asia, formalizing a partnership which began in 2011. The three-year MoU ensures continued collaboration to strengthen senior civil servants’ understanding of evaluation methodology, existing evidence of what works, and how impact evaluations can be used to make better policy decisions.