ABOUT CEGIS

Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States (CEGIS – pronounced See-Jis)
aims to improve lives by helping Indian state governments deliver better
development outcomes. We believe that the most impactful lever for accelerating
national development is to improve governance and state capacity to better
deliver core public services at scale.

Informed by cutting-edge research and evidence as well as a practical
orientation toward implementable ideas, CEGIS works with state governments in
India to enable a transformative improvement in their functioning. CEGIS' vision
and Theory of Change (ToC) are an outcome of extensive research done by Prof.
Karthik Muralidharan (CEGIS Co-Founder and Scientific Director) and outlined in
his multiple award-winning, national bestselling book Accelerating India's
Development, and enabled by strategic philanthropic support provided by Ashish
Dhawan (CEGIS Co-Founder).

CEGIS APPROACH AND MODEL OF FUNCTIONING

CEGIS' solutions to enhance governance are co-created with state governments in
a state-led way,



where we focus on deep partnerships with states using an
iterative cycle of think-demonstrate-document-transfer. We work closely with the
top bureaucratic leadership, front-line workers and public officials in Finance,
Planning, Human Resources and a few other priority line departments. Many of our
solutions reflect ideas outlined in the book Accelerating India's Development,
and these solutions are constantly refined based on real-time feedback and are
designed to both be customized to the contexts we are working in, and to create
templates that can provide the starting point for replication across contexts.

Our focus areas reflect evidence that key characteristics of high-performing
organisations include (a) measuring outcomes through reliable, high quality data
that enables goal setting and progress monitoring; (b) strategic use of
personnel – competency based hiring and training, skilling, and performance
appraisals

📌 Program Manager (India)
🏢 CEGIS Foundation
📍 India