Context: The United Nations Development Program recently lauded India’s Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP) for significant improvements in health, nutrition and education outcomes. The programme could count on the support of a new strategy to improve data-driven governance.
The ADP model – Result based data governance structure
Way forward: ADP has provided a scalable template for harnessing the speed, granularity and affordability of administrative data while strengthening data quality
Conclusion: Results-based governance ultimately aims to improve government service delivery by giving decision-makers the tools and incentives to craft appropriate policies and programmes. To this end, the data quality strategy for ADP can be adopted as a template for unlocking the power of administrative data.