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Social Political Research Foundation

Social Political Research Foundation

Formation	October 2018 (2018-10)
Headquarters	B65, Pandav Nagar, Block B, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, Delhi 110057
Location	India
Founder-Director	Neha Simlai
Chairperson	Ram Bahadur Rai
Website	https://sprf.in/

The Social and Political Research Foundation (SPRF India) is a registered public charity trust with headquarters in New Delhi. SPRF is led by young policy researchers and a board of distinguished trustees and experienced advisors, and makes public policy research coherent and compelling. It horizontalises and intersects public policy as a dynamic and solution-oriented organisation by grounding it in data and non-partisan research. Their research identifies current gaps in policy-framing systems in order to suggest viable solutions across themes and sectors.

Objective

SPRF focuses on policy analysis that is cause-, agenda-, and party-neutral. It takes public policy beyond academic silos and jargon to make it fact-based by deliberating and discussing the idea of an India where public policy is strengthened by fact rather than steered by opinion, accessible by producing easy-to-read, data-driven analyses that address a broad thematic spectrum, and holistic by providing a 360-degree view of pressing policy issues and their implications for stakeholders.

Activities

Research

SPRF's nonpartisan and evidence-based policy research examines current gaps in policy-framing frameworks in order to give feasible solutions on governance, economy, human rights, internal security, and environment issues. SPRF conducts long-term and short-term research on pressing policy issues. SPRF's work has been cited in outlets such as The Quint, The Diplomat, Hindu Business Line, Mint, FirstPost, News18, The Wire, ORF online, Business Insider, NewsClick, Down To Earth, Feminism In India, and the Jindal Journal of Public Policy.

Fellowships

• Water Seekers’ Fellowship - The Water Seekers Fellowship, which will be launched in 2020, is a collaboration between SPRF India and the Living Waters Museum at IISER, Pune. It collaborates with scholars who have developed an interdisciplinary knowledge of "water" to create visual narratives and give comprehensive, evidence-based policy suggestions that help to enlighten a variety of concerns related to waterscapes across India.

• Visual Fellowship - The Visual Fellowship, which was launched in 2022, is a joint project of SPRF India and the Sri Aurobindo College of Arts and Communication.

Trackers

SPRF uses data to analyse and visually represent the progress of government schemes using indicators such as gender responsiveness, completion rate, democracy indices, and others.

• Freedom Indices - The Freedom Indices are a comparative analysis of the freedom rankings of South Asian countries across indicators such as press freedom, democracy,  and others.
• Scheme Tracker - The Scheme Tracker monitors and tracks the implementation and progress of various government schemes.
• Gender Responsiveness Tracker - The Gender Responsiveness Tracker gauges the level of gender mainstreaming within current development policies in India using the 5-point Gender Responsive Assessment Scale and the Gender Assessment Tool developed by the World Health Organisation.
• Grassroots Women Leaders Project - The Grassroots Women Leaders Project highlights women’s achievements and grassroots work in education, healthcare, agriculture, gender rights, economic empowerment, child welfare, labour rights, sanitation, and others.

Events

Mantrana

Mantrana is SPRF's flagship conference, envisioned as a place for drawing constructive narratives from disparate points of view on a variety of topics important to India. Mantrana 2020, which was opened by the Honourable Union Minister for Minority Affairs, Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, highlighted the potential for growth and development in Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh, two new union territories.

Curated Content

Curated Voices Project

The project provides a platform for graduate and post-graduate students, early-career scholars, academics, development professionals, and policy enthusiasts to publish their work to democratise public policy.

Photo Archive Project

The project curates policy research combining visual and written media in the form of photo essays. These photo essays centre around human narratives and highlight the on-ground realities of social and policy problems.

Partnerships and Collaborations

Collaborations with SPRF focus on policy-relevant topics in a range of industries. SPRF works with educational institutions, non-profit organisations, government agencies, and academics as partners and stakeholders. WWF India, the NITI Aayog, the Living Waters Museum at IISER, Pune, the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communications, the O.P. Jindal Global University, C-Voter, and Feminism in India are among these organisations.

Trustees

• Ram Bahadur Rai - Chair of the Board of Trustees, Awarded the prestigious Padma Shri by the President of India
• Manmohan Singh Chawla - Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees, Managing Trustee - SGT University
• Hemant Sharma - Senior Journalist, Managing Trustee
• Jawaharlal Kaul - Senior Journalist, Awarded the prestigious Padma Shri by the President of India
• Ram Sahai Verma - IAS (Retd), Former Chief Secretary, Haryana
• Pushpesh Kumar Pant - Senior Academic, Awarded the prestigious Padma Shri by the President of India
• Rahul Dev - Senior Journalist
• Yashwant R. Deshmukh - Founder - Team C-Voter
• Ishanee Sharma - Advocate
• Amogh Dev Rai - Consulting Economist
• Dilpreet Singh Chawla - Entrepreneur
• Neha Simlai - Founder-Director
• Shiv Sehgal - Director, Treasurer