{"id":16,"date":"2026-10-01T13:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desi-india.org\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:04:21","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.desi-india.org\/?page_id=16","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About DESI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Development Evaluation Society of India (DESI)<\/strong> was formed by a group of evaluation professionals and researchers with the aim of evolving a strategy to revive and sustain the culture of <em>\u201clearning from experience\u201d<\/em> in development planning and administration. It was registered (No. S-32707) in 2002 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Objectives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DESI plans to attain its goal by undertaking the following activities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Undertake studies to identify and understand the factors that help create an enabling environment for mainstreaming development evaluation in governance; technology promotion and technology demonstration to assess the impact of such interventions in agriculture, industry, health and other sectors to achieve sustainable economic and environmental goals.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Dissemination of the results of such research to planners, policy makers, intelligentsia, media and civil society organisations.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Promote exchange of views across the whole spectrum of stakeholders on issues relating to reforms and actions required to revive and sustain the culture of evaluation for development effectiveness.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Undertake capacity building and promote excellence in the theory and practice of development evaluation through training, networking, research, technology promotion and demonstration, sensitisation and dissemination of research output and information.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Undertake impact evaluation studies and promote debates on the merits of various development interventions, schemes and programmes.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About DESI The Development Evaluation Society of India (DESI) was formed by a group of evaluation professionals and researchers with the aim of evolving a strategy to revive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desi-india.org\/?page_id=16\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_desi_meta_description":"About the Development Evaluation Society of India (DESI), registered in 2002 (No. S-32707) to revive and sustain the culture of learning from experience in development.","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desi-india.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desi-india.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desi-india.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desi-india.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desi-india.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.desi-india.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desi-india.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}