Data Driven Governance was a unique project for microplanning of village development plans. The data for the overall development of the village was captured by tab based survey where 1000 volunteers worked with community to gather data and dashboard was created to monitor the progress of development in villages. The project provided very good platform for district administration to monitor the development in villages and also to track the budget expenditure with latest project updates. The project was appreciated at national level and United Nations selected it as a model project to showcase across India. This project then helped us to work on "Action Room to Reduce Poverty" policy initiative.

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Implementing partner- Sparsh, Sankalp
Data intelligence partner- SocialCops, Delhi
data driven governance
Microplanning in Chandrapur
Govt. of Maharashtra
In collaboration with
Tata Trusts

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Micro-planning in Chandrapur
Honorable minister,
Mr Sudhir Mungantiwar
“This project has helped the district administration
understand the socio-economic dynamics of a
village and what are the development challenges of
each village by creating a robust village requirement
sheet for each and every village of Mul, Pomburna,
and Jiwati.”
~ 48,000
Households surveyed
~ 1,67,900
Individuals surveyed
Understanding
Rural Chandrapur

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WHY CONSTITUENCY LEVEL PLANNING
• Usually Planning Process Stops at District or Sub District level
• 14th Finance Commission’s GPDP also talks about GP level infrastructure
planning
• Micro Planning – emphasis on Convergence in departments and communities
• Detailed micro planning goes up to person level
• Help Policy Makers to understand their Constituency more better
• Helpful for Administration to plan at micro level
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NEED FOR MICROPLANNING
• Basic Governance Problem – Too much data but lack of information
• Move towards intelligent data driven decision making in governance
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Data-driven Governance: Theory of Change
Gaps in planning and delivery of basic public services
Inadequate public service
systems
Poor fund allocation /
execution
Lack of governmental tools
and resources
Example: Access to clean
water, limited healthcare,
quality education
Practice: Revising budget
with standardized increment
Operations: Paper-based
reporting system. “Fire-
fighting mode”
Our efforts towards creating sustainable solutions
Creating governance tools Provide on ground support
Improved development
outcomes
Example: Data dashboard
for insight, project tracker for
operations
Example: Facilitating
implementation of village
development plans
Example: Last mile linkage
of government schemes and
programs

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Approach
Bottom up approach
Technology paired with traditional methods: Tab-based, GIS-GPS mapping,
PRA tools
Resource pool of Central and State Government schemes
Multipronged approach to development plan: Household, Village, Area
development, Perspective planning
Potential human resource for development activities – Around 750 youth from
local villages trained over 12-15 days
Unique model of
Constituency
Development
Planning process

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Data Collection Process
Infrastructure, Land, Agriculture, Connectivity,
Health, Communication facilitiesVillage survey
Human Resources, Infrastructure, Facilities,
Beneficiary details
Anganwadi
survey
RTE Act compliance, Infrastructure detailsSchool survey
Availability of services, Infrastructure, Facilities,
Coverage of beneficiaries
Health facility
survey
Demographic details, Occupation, Education,
Economical status, Availability of State schemes,
Agriculture, Health, Migration details
Household
survey

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Offline &
Remote
Functionality
Local
Language
Support
Time Tagging
and GPS
Tracking
Offline Data
Validation
500 Volunteers, 3 Talukas, 2 Months, 48,000+ Households surveyed.
Data collection in Chandrapur

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Preparation of Village Development Plans
Finalization of
questionnaires
Community
mobilization &
meetings in
villages
Selection of
volunteers
Training of
Trainers
Training of
Coordinators
and
Volunteers
Village level
data collection
process
Data cleaning
and analysis
Village
Development
Plans
• Completed baseline surveys in all GPs
• Village development plans prepared for all villages
• Village meetings and Gram Sabha approval
• Transect Walk
• Baseline Study (100% HH coverage)
• Social Mapping (ST Tanda, SC colony and
Main Village)
• Resource Mapping
• Facilitated villagers to assess collective
needs of the village/colony
• Data analysis reports – incorporated into draft
Village Development plans
• Budgets for collective needs prepared
• With the help of villagers prioritized the Draft
Action plans
Meetings with
Minister,
District
Administration
Village and
Household
dashboards

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On Ground Process followed in the village:
1.Train village volunteers
We trained volunteers to understand
participatory rural appraisal (PRA) practices,
resource & social mapping, and data
collection on tablets.
2. Social & Resource
Mapping
Volunteers went in the villages and did
resource mapping & social mapping to
understand using PRA practices of Transect
mapping, drawing village maps, etc.
3. Data collection
Volunteers went across the village collected
data from each and every household,
school, anganwadi, health centre, etc. to
create village focused development plans.
4. Gram Sabha
Verification
Village Development Plans were prepared in
the backend and shared in the Gram Sabhas
to get the feedback from the villagers
whether they agree with the plans drafted for
them.

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Backend Process:
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Survey app
Creation on
SocialCops’ Collect
Questionnaire
creation
Surveyor
Training & field
piloting
Digital Data
collection
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Village Profiling, Village
Development Plans
Data
Flagging & cleaning
Dashboards created on
GIS, widget based, etc.

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Village Profiles
• Analysis of Baseline data (after validations)
• Study of Model Village Framework
• Study of flagship government programs/schemes
• Dashboard development showcasing social mapping, resource mapping and needs

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Understanding Villages at a Granular Level
Sector-wise
Analysis1
Granular
breakdowns2
Zoom into Sub-
district or Village3

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Village Development Plan
• Village Development Plan designed as per SAGY guidelines --- (show for a village)
• Parameters as derived from micro-planning survey data
• Understood the importance of various parameters and got feedback from the block &
district headquarters to do needs assessment & show requirement as per various
government schemes.
• Village Development Plan created for 7 focus sectors
• High priority & low priority areas of work identified.
• Tagged each area of work with it’s respective department, scheme, along with
estimated budget, verified with block and district administration.

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Auto-generated village development plans
Auto-generated requirements
for each village2
Estimates based on
department budgets3Understanding
Current Status1

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GIS analysis comparing locations & giving beneficiary information.
Indicator-wise analysis1 GIS based analysis2
Download beneficiary
lists3

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Impact of the Micro-planning Exercise in Chandrapur
Village Development Plans sent to each
Gram Panchayat for adoption under the 14th
Finance Commission budget.
Block Development Officer of Mul is
implementing 60% of the VDPs in the block.
Sub-Divisional Officer of Mul has used this
data to understand where she should
conduct the Aadhar Camps & Ration Card
Camps.
Forest Department used the dashboard to
target LPG penetration to individuals /
villages with low LPG penetration.
Electricity department has identified
households with no electricity based on the
data presented from Micro-planning
exercise.
Field visits using the dashboard have been
super helpful so that I understand issues of
a given village before I enter the village.
To know the unskilled component in
labour force.
Allocation of resources is data driven
and more meaningful.

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WAY FORWARD FOR MICROPLANNING
• Constant updation of the data needs to be ensured –
Institutional Procedure for continuous success
• Two way interaction with field officers – updates on progress
of tasks.
• Entire district needs to be covered – avoid multiple planning
for covered and non-covered districts
• Move towards community ownership and development
planning with team..

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ACTIVE WEBSITE
• Village Plan – Microplanning

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Thank You